Social Sustainability Manager in London/Hybrid - National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)

London/Hybrid

Around £66,000 (Depending on Experience)

Permanent

Not Specified

37.5 Working Hours - (Flexible)

12 Aug 2026

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Role Overview

We’re looking for a Social Sustainability Manager to help shape and deliver Nest’s approach to social sustainability, inclusion and positive social impact. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in translating our enterprise sustainability ambitions into practical action, measurable outcomes and meaningful change for our colleagues, members and wider communities.
Working closely with the Head of Enterprise Sustainability, you’ll lead and coordinate activity across areas including diversity, equity and inclusion, inclusion and belonging, social mobility, community impact, responsible workplace practice and social sustainability reporting. You’ll also support the integration of social sustainability into business decisions, procurement activity, governance, data and reporting.

This is a broad and influential role, requiring someone who can combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery. You’ll work with senior leaders, colleagues across the business, Inclusion Community co-chairs, external partners and procurement teams to build engagement, strengthen accountability and help embed inclusive and sustainable practices across Nest.
We’re looking for someone who is collaborative, evidence-led and passionate about creating positive social outcomes. You’ll be comfortable working with data, shaping programmes, influencing stakeholders and turning complex social sustainability priorities into clear, practical action.

The minimum criteria for this role are:

Experience shaping, leading or delivering DEI, social sustainability, inclusion, organisational culture or related strategic programmes.

Experience managing multiple projects and stakeholders across a complex organisation.

Strong analytical capability, including interpreting people and organisational data.

Experience developing reports, dashboards, business cases or governance papers for senior audiences.

Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.

Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential. At Nest, you’ll have access to a range of learning opportunities to learn, grow and build the skills you need to be successful in your role and career.

Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.

Flexible and agile working

Everyone's personal situation is different.

To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
reduce or vary working hours
reduce or vary the days worked
work compressed hours
job share

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Directorate/Department Overview

The People & Culture team is responsible for ensuring that Nest has the right culture, capacity and capability to deliver on our Corporate Strategy and achieve our purpose – financial peace of mind for all.

Serving our members and our communities requires us to take an Enterprise-wide approach to sustainability (in environmental, social and governance terms), keeping our members and our purpose at the centre of our goals while driving meaningful progress across the whole organisation. We’ve made a strong start with our approach to diversity, equity and inclusion internally, and more broadly in our industry, with significant progress towards our DE&I targets. Now we need to develop a coherent and consistent set of principles that will articulate the Nest point of view and enable targets to be set across a broader range of Sustainability goals that will drive action and align enterprise-wide activity, reporting and culture – from colleague experience through to member impact.

Our People & Culture ambition is to create the best possible working lives for our colleagues, modelling the high standards of stewardship we hold for our members’ investments, and in doing so help to build a more sustainable and inclusive financial system.

Organisational Overview

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme. We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.

If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: [email protected].

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