Location
Hybrid – Reading

Hours
36 hours per week

Salary
Up to £90,000 per annum, depending on experience

About the Role
The ESG Reporting Manager will lead the production, governance and continuous improvement of Thames Water’s ESG-related reports, disclosures, and data submissions. This includes responsibility for the Annual Sustainability Report, climate-related disclosures such as TCFD and UK Adaptation Reporting Power, the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (SRS), UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reporting, and other ESG-related outputs. The role ensures Thames Water meets evolving external sustainability disclosure requirements, supports credible and transparent communication of progress, promotes accurate ESG scoring by ratings agencies, and embeds enhanced ESG reporting capabilities across the organisation.

The ESG Reporting Manager will provide strategic oversight of enterprise-wide ESG performance, ensuring reporting insights directly inform business planning, investment decisions, and long-term risk management. This role requires strong analytical capability, excellent stakeholder engagement, effective coordination across technical and corporate teams, a proactive understanding of external ESG standards, and the ability to adopt new ways of working to maximise impact and value.

Key responsibilities include owning the delivery of all ESG and sustainability-related reports and disclosures, leading production of the Annual Sustainability Report and key external submissions, coordinating data and narrative collection, validation and assurance, working with rating agencies to improve ESG scores, maintaining performance against UK SRS standards, providing expertise on policy updates and climate change reporting, horizon scanning regulatory developments, advising senior leaders on emerging risks and compliance, contributing to long-term ESG reporting planning, coaching assurance processes, and acting as a senior ambassador representing Thames Water with regulators, investors, and external stakeholders.

This is a unique opportunity to influence ESG strategy and reporting at the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, helping to build a better future for customers, communities, people, and the planet.

Experience
- Experience in ESG/sustainability reporting, corporate reporting, non-financial disclosure or regulatory reporting within a complex organisation
- Experience interpreting and applying sustainability frameworks such as TCFD, SRS, ISSB, UK Government climate requirements, and UN SDGs
- Leading or coordinating large reporting programmes or cross-business submissions with fixed deadlines
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex ESG data and disclosure standards
- Experience in a regulated environment, utilities, infrastructure or public sector setting is desirable
- Experience working with external assurance providers or consultants is advantageous

About you
- Ability to build effective working relationships across all levels of the organisation
- Demonstrates strategic influence, collaborative leadership and effective communication across diverse teams
- High integrity and a commitment to transparent, credible reporting
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliver against immovable deadlines
- Proactive and adaptable with a strong understanding of evolving ESG standards and regulatory expectations

Qualifications
- Skilled in developing governance documentation, SLAs, reporting frameworks and policies is desirable
- No specific formal qualifications are mandated but relevant experience and expertise in ESG reporting and sustainability frameworks are essential