A highly successful, privately owned UK manufacturing group operating across multiple construction product brands is seeking to appoint a Head of Group Sustainability Development.

This is a senior, customer-facing sustainability leadership role, designed to use sustainability as a commercial growth lever, not a back-office compliance function.

The Opportunity

This role sits at the intersection of sustainability, sales, and strategic customer engagement.

Approximately 80% of the role is externally focused, working with customers, specifiers, and industry stakeholders to position the Group’s sustainability credentials as a competitive advantage. The remaining 20% focuses on group-level sustainability governance, ensuring credibility, consistency, and alignment across a portfolio of brands.

The successful candidate will act as the public-facing sustainability ambassador for the Group, supporting specification wins, strengthening customer relationships, and reinforcing long-term Net Zero commitments.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead customer-facing sustainability engagement across a multi-brand manufacturing group
  • Support sales teams with sustainability-led presentations, meetings, and bid input
  • Engage with housing associations, public sector bodies, housebuilders, and contractors
  • Translate sustainability strategy into clear commercial value propositions
  • Represent the business at industry events, forums, and working groups
  • Own the direction and credibility of group sustainability frameworks (Net Zero, SBTi, Scope 1–3)
  • Oversee compliance, reporting integrity, and consistency of external messaging
  • Coordinate sustainability champions across the Group

This is a hybrid sustainability–commercial leadership role, not a traditional ESG or reporting position.

Candidate Profile

You are likely to have:

  • Experience in a customer-facing sustainability, technical sales, or commercial role within construction products, building materials, or related supply chains
  • Strong understanding of how sustainability influences procurement and specification decisions
  • Confidence operating with customers, senior leadership, and boards
  • A pragmatic, commercially minded approach to sustainability
  • The ability to communicate complex sustainability topics in plain, credible business language
  • Existing relationships within social housing or public sector procurement would be highly advantageous.

Why This Role Stands Out

  • Group-level remit with genuine commercial influence
  • Long-term investment mindset from a privately owned business
  • High external visibility and board-level engagement
  • Opportunity to shape and define a modern, commercially driven sustainability function

Applications

This search is being managed confidentially.

To express interest or request further information, please email: nick@wilsonbrook.com

All enquiries will be treated in strict confidence.