Head of ESG

At Planteria Group, we help organisations reimagine their workplaces, making them more productive, healthy, and sustainable. From creating warm, welcoming reception areas to designing large-scale living architecture, we turn ordinary spaces into vibrant places where people genuinely love to be.

We’ve grown from a small family business into the UK’s leading interior landscaping specialist, transforming workplaces and commercial environments with the power of nature, to international expansion with operations in the US. Along the way, we’ve partnered with some of the UKs, and now US’s most recognisable brands to bring biophilic design to life, from lush office greenery and elegant corporate floristry to spectacular roof gardens and living walls.

Our success is driven by a fantastic team of 180 employees internationally, and we’re continuing to expand. We’re now looking for passionate individuals to join us on this journey and help us shape the future of sustainable, inspiring workplace design.

Your Impact:

In this role, you will shape the strategic direction of Health, Safety, and Sustainability (HSS) across a growing service organisation. You will ensure that as we scale, we do so responsibly, maintaining a strong People First culture where physical and psychological safety are treated as core business priorities.

This is a genuine opportunity to modernise how safety is understood, embed sustainable ways of working, and influence both internal teams and external partners to uphold the highest standards. You will:

• Lead and champion a Behavioural Based Safety (BBS) approach grounded in positive reinforcement, engagement, and shared accountability.
• Maintain and continually evolve our ISO 45001 H&S Management System to support the needs of a fast‑growing, dynamic organisation.
• Drive the identification and management of psychosocial risks, including stress, fatigue, and mental health, ensuring modern safety challenges are proactively addressed.
• Oversee incident Learning Reviews, shifting the focus from blame to systemic improvement and organisational learning.
• Act as the organisation’s Champion ensuring we meet all legislative requirements across multiple service locations.
• Oversee the HSS standards of Managed Portfolios & Partners, ensuring alignment with our People First expectations through audits, governance, and joint learning.
• Contribute to the delivery of our Sustainability and ESG roadmap, helping embed environmentally responsible practices and social value across the workforce.

Requirements

You will be a great fit if you have:

• A hands‑on nature and willing to deliver operational safety tasks alongside strategic initiatives, recognising that our size requires both.
• Strong knowledge across Health, Safety, and Environmental practices, with the confidence to navigate both traditional HSE requirements and modern safety thinking.
• Experience engaging with large corporate clients, understanding their expectations, pressures, and ESG agendas.
• Motivation to drive significant positive change, helping us evolve into an industry‑leading organisation in safety, sustainability, and partner engagement.
• An understanding of client drivers beyond cost, including value-add, service quality, ESG alignment, and how safety and sustainability directly influence their own objectives.
• The ability to influence suppliers and partners to uphold consistent standards, ensuring we demonstrate value across our entire delivery chain.
• A modern view of safety that includes psychological wellbeing, mental health awareness, and building trust across every level of the organisation.

At Planteria Group, our culture is guided by our core values: Humble & Confident, Positive & Energetic, One TEAM, Relentless to Improve, and Create Wow!

If you want to be part of a flourishing, fast-growing business that values agility, collaboration, and creativity, we’d love to hear from you. If you feel that you don’t quite hit the experience, we’re after, please do apply anyway as we’re always looking for people who are looking to grow and develop us!

Planteria Group is proud to promote equality of opportunity and an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive.

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Accessibility & Adjustments

We want every candidate to have the best possible experience throughout our recruitment process. If you require any adjustments or accommodations at any stage, including the interview, please let us know, and we will be happy to support you.

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Line Managers are responsible for promoting a safe working environment and ensuring their team follows Health & Safety policies. They provide guidance, training, and supervision, ensure risk assessments and safe systems of work are followed, address hazards promptly, report and support investigations of incidents, ensure staff have proper equipment and PPE, and lead by example to foster a positive safety culture.

Benefits

Way of working:This is an Office based role at our offices in Henham, Bishop’s Stortford. Our working policy is 4 days a week in the office, with the ability to work 1 day from home.

Our Benefits:

• Quarterly company bonus and annual performance related bonus.
• BUPA Cash plan.
• Learning and Development.
• Lunch provided at our offices.
• 25 days holiday.