Sustainability Specialist

Job Title: Sustainability Specialist

Function: Commercial

Location: Remote.

Contract type: Perm

Salary: £37,502 with the potential to rise to £41,669 over 3 years

Closing Date: 28th July 2026 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Sustainability Specialist to drive the organisation’s sustainability ambitions and ensure environmental considerations are embedded into decision-making across the business. This role will play a key part in coordinating and delivering sustainability initiatives, balancing ambitious environmental goals with operational realities, and ensuring the organisation remains resilient in a rapidly evolving regulatory and stakeholder landscape.

Working across the business and with external suppliers, you will collaborate with senior stakeholders to turn strategic sustainability ambitions into practical initiatives, supported by robust governance, reliable data, and transparent reporting. Your work will help ensure sustainability performance is credible, measurable, and aligned with organisational objectives, providing the insight needed to inform executive and board-level decision-making, external assurance, and public accountability.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence how sustainability is embedded across the organisation, helping to create long-term environmental, social, and commercial value while supporting our journey towards a more sustainable future.

Every day you will … 

• Lead the delivery of sustainability commitments across the organisation, working collaboratively with multiple teams to drive measurable environmental and business outcomes.
• Apply sound judgement to prioritise sustainability initiatives, supporting environmental objectives, operational requirements, and emerging risks and opportunities.
• Influencing suppliers and varied stakeholders to align with sustainability expectations, improving performance and embedding sustainable practices across the value chain.
• Ensure sustainability activities, reporting, and data are accurate, evidence-based, and robust enough to support board-level reporting, assurance processes, and external scrutiny.
• Build organisational capability and awareness in sustainability, adapting approaches to evolving regulations, reporting requirements, and stakeholder expectations while supporting informed decision-making.

What can we offer you?

We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary:

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.  
• We recognise our employees’ hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and colleagues’ recognition awards. 
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
• We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
• Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community. 
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

NHS Supply Chain, who are we?

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England, Scotland and Wales.

We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.

What skills will help you thrive in this role?

• Experience supporting organisation‑wide sustainability or environmental programmes  
• Practical understanding and experience of sustainability impacts such as carbon, waste, or resource use, including performance measurement and reporting  
• Experience working with suppliers or external partners to influence sustainability outcomes  
• Familiarity with reporting or assurance processes in regulated or high‑scrutiny environments  

Our Inclusive Commitment

At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn’t match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.

Struggling to complete our application form, and require additional support? Reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at careers@supplychain.nhs.uk who will be happy to help you with alternative ways to apply.

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