Culina Group is seeking a strategic and commercially minded Head of Sustainability to define and deliver our Group-wide sustainability and ESG strategy.
This is a high-impact leadership role with responsibility for embedding sustainability into how we operate, invest, and partner with customers. You’ll translate ambition into delivery, driving measurable environmental and social outcomes while supporting commercial performance, operational resilience, and regulatory compliance.
You will play a critical role in positioning Culina as a trusted, future-ready supply chain partner, enabling both the business and our customers to transition to lower-impact operations.
What You’ll Be Doing
Strategy & Leadership
- Define and lead the Group’s Sustainability & ESG strategy, aligned to business priorities and customer expectations
- Set clear ambitions, targets, and measurable outcomes, including decarbonisation goals
- Build and manage a multi-year roadmap of initiatives across the Group
Programme Delivery & Impact
- Lead decarbonisation and climate transition programmes across warehousing and transport
- Drive energy efficiency, renewable adoption, fleet transition, and operational optimisation
- Advance resource efficiency, waste reduction, and circular practices across the business
Governance & Reporting
- Establish sustainability governance, policies, and standards across the Group
- Develop an audit-ready ESG data capability covering carbon (Scopes 1–3), energy, waste, water, and social metrics
- Own sustainability reporting, disclosures, and external assurance aligned with UK/EU requirements
Commercial Integration
- Embed sustainability into investment decisions, business cases, and operational processes
- Partner with commercial teams to strengthen customer propositions through sustainability
- Support the business in meeting customer ESG expectations and requirements
Supplier & Stakeholder Engagement
- Drive responsible procurement and supplier engagement on ESG standards and emissions reduction
- Build strong cross-functional partnerships with operations, transport, engineering, procurement, finance, HR, and IT
- Lead internal engagement, capability building, and culture change across the organisation
Apply on company website Coventry Road, LE17 4XH Lutterworth, United Kingdom Hybrid Full-time
Culina Group is hiring a Head of Sustainability
About company
We are a market leading ambient and chilled food & drink 3PL specialist, providing warehousing, distribution, contract packing and a bonded division with extensive expertise in relation to dutiable goods across the UK and Ireland. We have recently added both Fresh and Food Manufacturing divisions and are looking towards the future and the continuation of being one of the leading logistics companies within the UK.
Using modern IT infrastructure, including warehouse management systems, satellite tracking and client interfaces we are able to offer unrivalled customer support, ensuring that you always know where your products are. Online up to date data is always available through customer web portals allowing you to track your goods from anywhere, while a significant investment of over £2.5m in customer service infrastructure over the last five years ensures that we exceed customer expectations not just once or twice, but every single time.
Working hand in hand with some of the globe's leading brands and manufacturers is an everyday event at Culina Group, plus with a multitude of own-label producers and developing companies, all are catered for with an efficient and flexible infrastructure. Importantly, our strategic focus is on food & drink logistics within a shared-user environment, which is driven by volume and critical mass. This ultimately delivers an efficient and cost effective solution for clients of all sizes.
We are committed to future proofing our business by investing in teams, network, systems, sector and the environment, which will ensure we continue to provide clients with a robust supply chain platform which performs beyond expectations every day. The latest two service additions of Fresh and Food Manufacturing are testament to this ethos, ensuring that we continue to become a leading light within the logistics industry.