Sustainability Lead

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us. 

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

Hear from our UK team about what it's like working at Monzo ✨

London/Cardiff/UK Remote | 💰circa £120,000 +  Benefits | Hear from the team ✨

⭐Our Sustainability team

An exciting role has opened up in our Legal & Board Governance Collective for a senior sustainability lead with a proven track record in shaping and delivering complex sustainability initiatives. In particular, we are looking for proven experience in assessing and implementing decarbonisation strategies aligned to company goals. This role is crucial in embedding our sustainability commitments into our corporate strategy and daily operation.

In this role, you will report to the Director of Sustainability in achieving Monzo’s environmental and broader sustainability ambitions and work with a variety of stakeholders across the business.  The right candidate will be able to deploy traditional program management capabilities and deep expertise in environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles to drive tangible business and environmental outcomes. This role will require working with new and evolving information within a fast-paced organisation and synthesising large volumes of data and information into actionable plans that are aligned with Monzo’s company goals.

🔑 You’ll play a key role by…

• Strategic development: contribute to the evolution of Monzo’s long-term sustainability strategy, identifying emerging risks, opportunities, and best practices to ensure we remain leaders in the sector.
• Operationalise our climate strategy: take full ownership of our climate strategy, leading the end-to-end delivery of our decarbonisation plan. This includes managing key reduction projects (like renewable energy procurement and supplier engagement), tracking performance against our targets, and ensuring we meet our public climate commitments.
• Regulatory expertise: act as an internal expert on evolving environmental and climate-related regulations (e.g., TCFD, CSRD), ensuring Monzo’s compliance and strategic alignment.
• Business case creation: develop compelling business cases for sustainability initiatives, articulating the return on investment, risk mitigation, and brand value to secure investment and stakeholder buy-in.
• Performance & reporting: devise and track the key metrics that measure our sustainability performance. Prepare insightful reports, management information, and presentations for senior stakeholders, including the Board, to support strategic decision-making.
• Cross-functional leadership: collaborate with a diverse range of internal stakeholders (e.g., Product, Finance, Marketing, People) to embed sustainability principles into their workstreams and decision-making processes.
• Stakeholder management: manage relationships with key external partners, such as climate advisors, industry groups, and technology providers, to advance our sustainability agenda.

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if you…..

• Are a proven leader in climate strategy and delivery, with extensive experience developing decarbonisation roadmaps (including Scope 3 accounting and setting Science Based Targets) and translating them into successfully executed, data-driven projects.
• Have deep subject matter expertise in key ESG topics, with a deep specialism in environmental sustainability (e.g., carbon accounting, reporting frameworks, renewable energy).
• Demonstrate commercial acumen, with experience building business cases and linking sustainability outcomes to financial performance and corporate strategy.
• Have exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex sustainability issues clearly and concisely to diverse audiences, from engineers to board members.
• Work with a strategic & proactive mindset, with a demonstrated ability to identify problems, take initiative, and implement improvements in a fast-paced environment.
• Have strong influencing skills, with a track record of engaging and influencing people at all levels to drive change and embed new practices across an organisation.
• Are a professional with at least 8+ years of relevant work experience in complex organisations with a proven track record of driving outcomes

Personal Attributes:

• Strategic thinker with a pragmatic, results-oriented approach
• A deep-seated passion for creating a positive environmental and social impact
• Resilient and tenacious, with the ability to inspire and energize others through challenges
• High agency and ownership, taking full accountability for outcomes
• Intellectually curious and dedicated to continuous learning in a fast-evolving field
• A natural flair for flexing your style to influence a wide range of stakeholders

🙌What’s in it for you

💰circa £120,000 salary range ➕share options.

📍This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London) 

⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. 

📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

🏡We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. 

➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.

🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps

• Call with Recruiter
• Initial Call with Hiring Manager
• Loop interviews
  • Behavioural interview
  • Role Specific interview
  • Leadership interview

This process should take around 2-3 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible! 

We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here.

You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to hiring@monzo.com. You can also use this email address to let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you because of disability, neurodiversity or anything else.

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Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

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