Social Value Projects Manager

Job Description
Posted Sunday, 17 August 2025, 19:00

Package Description:

Bonus scheme
Car Allowance
Cycle to work scheme
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus each year you will have the option to buy and sell leave
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
Wellbeing Scheme, provided through Health Shield, giving every colleague - and their dependents - unlimited access to GPs and counselling, as well as cash back on a wide range of health and wellbeing treatment
Employee Support to include Life Assurance and critical illness pay
24/7 Colleague Assistance Programme and Financial Wellbeing Support - access to affordable loans, savings accounts, advanced earned pay, and financial education via salary finance
Online savings- major retailers, utilities, entertainment plus many more!

About Our Opportunity

At EMR, we're passionate about creating positive impact for people, communities, and the environment. As our Social Value Project Manager, you'll lead the delivery of innovative social value programmes, working with colleagues, customers, supply chain partners, and community organisations to make a real difference. This is a unique opportunity to shape how we embed social value into everything we do, while helping us achieve our ambitious targets and live our values.

This opportunity will be covering Southwest, South East, South Coast regions.

What You Will Be Doing:

Supporting the design and delivery of EMR's Social Value Strategy and innovative projects.
Embedding social value into contracts and project delivery alongside our commercial and operational teams.
Building strong partnerships with schools, colleges, local authorities, charities, VCSEs, prisons, and support agencies.
Monitoring, measuring, and reporting on social value outcomes, ensuring robust evidence is captured.
Representing EMR as a social value champion in forums and community networks.
Collaborating with sustainability, marketing, and communications teams to promote and share our impact.
Staying up to date with national and local policies, and sector developments.

About You:

We're looking for someone who is:

Experienced in social value, CSR, or training/skills development, ideally with knowledge of the recycling or sustainability sector.
Skilled at building and managing relationships with a wide range of partners and stakeholders.
Confident in developing and delivering social value action plans, including employment, skills, and community initiatives.
Analytical, detail-driven, and confident in data management and reporting.
A strong communicator and influencer, comfortable engaging with diverse groups.
Flexible and willing to travel to support projects across the region.

You'll also bring resilience, initiative, and a results-driven mindset, while being a collaborative team player who lives our values and empowers others.

Who we are:

Our purpose is to create a future where the materials we use don't need to be extracted from the planet.'

At EMR, we give new life to unwanted materials. Every year, we recycle 10 million tonnes of metals and plastics, saving 19 million tonnes of carbon from entering the Earth's atmosphere, diverting waste from landfill and protecting resources and habitats.

We couldn't do any of this without our team members. In return for all they do, we do everything we can to create an environment of belonging, value, support and growth.

We're proud to have achieved Great Place To Work status, but it's about so much more than a badge. It's about being recognised by our people for the continuous work we do to do better for them:

'The people who work here are from varied backgrounds and have a variety of beliefs, all of which are accepted and respected.'

'I'm encouraged to keep a healthy work-life balance so that I can be performing at my best.'

'I've been supported every step of the way in my career progression.'

EMR offers a fantastic and inclusive environment; collaboration across the whole business, humility and hard work.'

We couldn't do any of this without our team members. In return for all they do, we do everything we can to create an environment of belonging, value, support and growth, underpinned by our Company values of We Care and We Do.

We Care
Integrity - our people are Respectful and Honest
Trust - our people are Collaborative and Genuine
We Do
Accountable - our people are Determined and Responsible
Innovative - our people have a Growth Mind-set and are Progressive

Recruitment Agencies
We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List (PSL) and do not accept speculative CVs. Any unsolicited CVs, whether related to a specific position or submitted speculatively, will not be considered.

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