Supply Chain Sustainability Manager - Carbon Net Zero and Nature

Supply Chain Sustainability Manager - Carbon & Nature - Procurement

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If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further. 

Dynamic and proactive, Global Procurement delivers tangible commercial value for HSBC. A varied remit spans all aspects of the procurement lifecycle worldwide - from leading relationships with suppliers, to ensuring alignment across spending plans. Highly engaged with the business, Procurement specialists develop deep strategic understanding. This leads to stronger approaches to measuring success, and ultimately ensures the Group operates ever more effectively. 

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of Supply Chain Sustainability Manager – Carbon & Nature.

This role gives you a unique opportunity to work across environmental aspects of the supply chain and play a critical role in the delivery of HSBC’s 2050 Net Zero ambition. Key focus areas include reducing carbon emissions across supply chain, supporting and enabling suppliers in their transition and achievement of targets, as well as addressing impacts from our nature hot spots.

In this role, you will:

• Lead carbon data outreach and management: Gather, validate and improve supplier carbon data to build foundation of trusted, verified & decision-oriented data that inform sourcing strategies and track progress toward net zero goals.
• Plan for the future and track emerging trends: Continuously monitor external sustainability developments and regulatory requirements, ensuring procurement strategies remain future-proof and aligned with best practice.
• Engage and enable suppliers: Develop segmentation, roadmaps and engagement plans to help suppliers reduce emissions and enhance nature-positive outcomes, fostering innovation and collaboration.
• Embed sustainability in procurement processes: Work with category managers to integrate carbon and nature priorities into sourcing strategies, supplier selection and relationship management.
• Shape and influence procurement strategy: Act as a subject matter expert in carbon and nature, contributing to the global sustainability vision and helping make procurement a key driver of HSBC’s sustainability agenda.
  
  

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• Strong carbon data and analysis expertise: Proven ability to apply GHG Protocol (particularly Scope 3), carbon accounting, and data platforms (e.g. CDP) to measure, manage and report emissions.
• Sustainability in procurement and across supply chains: Experience embedding carbon/environmental principles into procurement/supply chain function and working with suppliers to deliver measurable impact.
• Knowledge of key frameworks and trends: Familiarity with standards and frameworks such as SBTi, SBTN, TCFD, TNFD, and a future-focused mindset to anticipate evolving expectations.
• Effective collaboration and influence: Confidence engaging with suppliers and internal stakeholders to drive change, alongside excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strategic and operational insight: Ability to translate high-level sustainability objectives into actionable roadmaps and operational improvements at scale.

By joining HSBC’s Global Procurement team, you’ll help shape how one of the world’s largest financial institutions delivers its sustainability ambition through its supply chain. You’ll be part of a team that influences procurement’s role as a key enabler of the bank’s Net Zero and nature-positive future.

Opening a world of opportunity. You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

At HSBC we look to enable our employees to better balance their work / life priorities and have the flexibility required to meet challenging needs as they progress through different life stages. Where possible we will consider the following flexible working options: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, and working from home and staggered hours. If in considering a role with HSBC, you have a need for some flexibility in your working arrangements please discuss this with the recruitment team in the early stages of the application process.

We believe that being open to a range of perspectives and cultures is vital for our business. We work hard to ensure our diverse and inclusive workplace reflects the communities we serve. We want everyone to achieve their potential – regardless of their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. If you have a different way of seeing the world, we are interested in hearing from you.

HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please contact our Recruitment Helpdesk:

Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com
Telephone: +44 2078328500.
 
Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions. HSBC has processes in place to avoid nepotism.  This means we will avoid circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.