Sustainability Lead in London

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Our technology teams in the UK work closely with HSBC’s global businesses to help design and build digital services that allow our millions of customers around the world, to bank quickly, simply and securely. We also run and manage our IT infrastructure, data centres and core banking systems that power the world’s leading international bank.

Our multi-disciplined teams include: DevOps engineers, IT architects, front and back end developers, infrastructure specialists, cyber experts, as well as project and programme managers.

 

Role Description:

The Sustainability Lead is responsible for leading and coordinating the bank's sustainability initiatives in the technology function, ensuring that our technology operations align with the bank's sustainability goals and contribute to the bank's overall sustainability strategy.

Reporting to the CTO Head of Enablement the role will work to ensure world class technology solutions that enable business success by leading strategy and delivery for Sustainability Platform.

 

Managing a direct team and budget of circa 5 resources, the role will support the outcomes of Vision ‘27 across Speed, Scale & Resilience whilst accelerating the build out and development of a world-class CTO capability that attracts, nurtures and retains talent. 

The person in this role will be commercially astute, an excellent communicator and able to partner strongly with executive level business stakeholders (Group General Managers and their teams). They will work with business leaders to define technology strategies, create new solutions and drive a culture of continuous improvement. They will also be partnering with other DBS and IT counterparts, at various executive levels of the organisation including in-country leadership (CEO, COO, CIO).

 

Responsibilities:

 

●        Develop and implement sustainability initiatives for the technology function, including energy efficiency, waste reduction, and sustainable sourcing.

●        Collaborate with other departments within the bank to ensure alignment with the bank's overall sustainability strategy.

●        Conduct sustainability assessments of the technology function's operations and identify opportunities for improvement.

●        Develop and maintain sustainability metrics and reporting mechanisms to track progress and communicate results to stakeholders.

●        Develop and deliver sustainability training programs to increase awareness and engagement of technology staff in sustainability efforts.

●        Establish partnerships with external organizations to leverage expertise and resources in sustainability initiatives.

●        Stay up-to-date with sustainability trends, best practices, and regulations to ensure that the technology function is always aligned with the latest sustainability developments.

●        Manage budgets and resources related to sustainability initiatives.

●        Lead a team of sustainability professionals and coordinate their activities to achieve sustainability goals.

●        Develop and maintain the bank's sustainability roadmap, ensuring that our technology function is aligned with the bank's overall sustainability strategy.

 

Leadership and Strategy Responsibilities

●        Lead the Sustainability Platform to successful delivery of business outcomes.

●        Strong commercial awareness looking for ways to drive down RTB costs through automation, less TOIL and efficient use of Infrastructure.

●        Ensure HSBC technologies are standardized an aligned to customer needs.

●        Promote the Net Zero strategy for CTO embedding best practices and consistency across the organization.

●        Work with Regional CTO leaders to capture regional business requirements whilst ensuring global consistency

●        Manage the associated budget, with ongoing focus on personnel, vendor, and capital expenditures.

●        Build strong working relationships with Product Lines and business leaders to ensure teams meet expectations and contribute to achievement of business goals.

●        Collaborate with CTO Exco business leaders to develop short- and long-term strategic plans.

●        Support and facilitate innovative and experimental software development work to test new ideas, within bounded cost and time frames.

●        Provide leadership, vision, and direction for the CTO organization.

●        Work with product management leadership to design, manage, and/or execute product roadmaps.

 

Talent Management Responsibilities

●        Develop workforce strategy to meet the organization’s current and future needs through developing, hiring, and/or sourcing talent. 

●        Manage resource allocation across teams to maximize business impact of resources and ensure each team has the skills and capabilities needed to achieve its objectives.

●        Manage talent, playing a key role in performance management and compensation processes, role and competency definition, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

●        Partner with CTO HR to create learning and development opportunities aligned to the organization’s skill and capability needs, and to provide rewarding career paths for software Enablement staff.

●        Recruit and hire talent to address new needs and skill gaps.

●        Facilitate collaboration and partnership across teams and stakeholders.

●        Build a culture that supports learning, collaboration, transparency, and inclusiveness.

●        Manage employee engagement and promote a compelling employee value proposition to retain staff.

 

Teamwork 

·       Build and maintain the broad and diverse set of skills required to run the Sustainability Platform

·       Provide strategic direction, leadership, support, guidance and management for the team

·       Functional leadership of IT managers and ensure best practices for team management

·       Strategic engagement with key 3rd parties and vendors to ensure a strong partnership is established for the strategic benefit of the Bank

·       Establish a robust communication and support mechanism across CTO, Technology and Business teams

·       Ensure the necessary resources are sourced to support demand

·       Ensure there is a strong colleague development framework in place including succession planning, diversity balance, nurturing, coaching, skills development and career progression

 

Requirements

Essential Skillset/Experience:

 

·       Proven industry experience of running a Sustainability team including processes, technologies, challenges, strategy

·       Expertise in Strategy, Business Planning, Governance and Stakeholder Management

·       Knowledge of technology and technology trends, and the ability to provide technology consultancy to senior business heads

·       Established industry relationships with Executives at large technology vendors

·       Experience in planning and managing significant expenditure in a complex organization

·       This role will operate in a global transformation capacity

·       This role will require detailed understanding of all business areas across the bank and relevant technology domains

·       The role will be responsible for developing thought leadership and best practice, including engagement with vendors / third parties

·       Ability to work across cultures and all locations in a complex, matrix organization

·       Proven experience as a Sustainability Lead in a banking or financial services organization.

·       Strong technical knowledge of relevant technologies and DevOps ways of working.

·       Excellent leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire teams to achieve their goals.

·       Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

·       Ability to analyze complex technical and business problems and develop effective solutions.

·       Able to manage a variety of senior stakeholder relationships and develop a trusting working relationship with them.

·       Demonstrable success in understanding and delivering towards customer needs in large, global, complex organizations.

·       Ability to work in an unstructured and changing environment.

·       Ability to influence teams to think "outside" the box and look at solutions / approaches outside traditional comfort zones.

·       Strong external vendor management skills.

·       Good business sense and commercial acumen.

·       Strong drive to get things done and work in an environment with many moving parts but still find a way forward.

·       Ability to continually question and reduce costs.

·       Excellent people management skills.

·       Leading and directing executive and non-executive work groups and effecting change through people.

·       Managing operational functions, directing process re-engineering and efficiency exercises.

·       Strong ability to balance risks vs rewards and maximizing the cost effectiveness and profitability for the business.

·       Strong people leadership, teamwork, gathering information and analyzing, judgment and decision making, communication competencies

·       Respectful of different cultures, working with colleagues from across all 5 regions (North America, LATAM, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Europe

·       Strong knowledge of sustainability best practices and regulations related to technology operations.

·       Experience in project management, including budget and resource management.

·       Experience in leading teams and coordinating activities towards common sustainability goals.

·       Familiarity with sustainability reporting frameworks such as GRI, CDP, or SASB is a plus.

 

 

The role will be based in London but some travel may be required. This role supports Hybrid working

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