{"id":5018241,"date":"2021-05-25T21:28:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T11:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edgeenvironment.com\/?p=5018241"},"modified":"2021-05-26T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T03:44:09","slug":"outsourced-sustainability-managers-has-their-time-finally-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edgeenvironment.com\/cl\/2021\/05\/25\/outsourced-sustainability-managers-has-their-time-finally-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Outsourced sustainability managers: has their time finally come?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Outsourcing support for critical business functions is nothing new. Used to reduce risk and increase flexibility, retained assistance is commonplace across a range of disciplines \u2013 from accounting and bookkeeping to PR and legal services. More recently, the model is even working for senior roles, particularly in the field of Chief Financial Officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Charles Forerunner<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It is well understood that these \u2018needs-basis\u2019 roles sit alongside \u2013 and complement \u2013 traditional consultants. After all, consultants are routinely brought into businesses on an ad-hoc basis to deliver specific projects for a fixed fee in a defined time. But a retainer model is slightly different: it is longer-term, allowing the expert to think and act like one of the client\u2019s team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can it be done for sustainability?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until now, businesses haven\u2019t commonly used outsourced support on sustainability. It might be because sustainability has typically been dominated by the \u201cbig end of town\u201d \u2013 the upper echelons of the ASX are filled with companies armed with entire teams of sustainability professionals. These companies don\u2019t need to think twice about employing a professional to develop and own their organisation\u2019s approach to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the landscape is changing. Increasingly, sustainability is spreading down to even the smallest of businesses. I\u2019ve lost count of the number of enquiries we\u2019ve had over the last couple of years from companies looking to develop their first-ever ESG strategy or report. Most companies know the game is on \u2013 action on sustainability is now a must-have for investors, customers and employees \u2013 but many don\u2019t (yet) want to dive in and hire permanent sustainability staff. Even among bigger companies with established teams, there is a growing need for long-term specialist expertise that isn\u2019t always matched with an appetite to take on new headcount. For those companies ready to take the plunge, it can be hard to find the right person when demand for sustainability experts is at an all-time high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A serious endeavour<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which brings us back to the outsourced model. Where sustainability was previously given lip-service, it\u2019s now important for companies to demonstrate that it\u2019s being taken seriously. Sustainability can\u2019t be just a marketing ploy \u2013 it must now be absorbed into a company\u2019s very DNA. Rather than viewing sustainability within a silo, whole teams need to embark on the journey with someone they know and trust, and with who they can be comfortable asking those silly questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A retained sustainability expert, acting as a sustainability manager, offers these benefits and more, especially if they\u2019re backed by a bigger, multidisciplinary team. Working as an employee, an outsourced sustainability manager can get an all-important helicopter view of the business and come to know it inside out. They can build relationships with all stakeholders, strategise, manage change and can answer queries from investors and customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a company like ours, the ultimate aim is to help our clients become sustainability superstars. If we\u2019re successful, we will have helped clients build internal capacity, embed sustainability into every job role in the company and transition the culture in such a way that we are no longer needed. As such, and perhaps unlike professionals in other disciplines, our outsourced sustainability team will always be working towards a goal of making ourselves redundant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new way of operating<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Outsourced Sustainability Team Prospectus \u00a9 Edge Environment 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We are already working with a number of clients in this way, but we\u2019re expecting demand for the model to grow exponentially. For us it\u2019s a win-win: there are few better ways to create impact than to do so from the inside of a company, which means our clients can achieve their sustainability goals and we get to fulfill our mission. It won\u2019t be long, we think, until we see Australia\u2019s first outsourced CSO\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can download our Outsourced Sustainability Team brochure by clicking the prospectus. Alternatively, get in touch with our Head of Sustainability Strategy, Max Van Biene.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Max Van Biene<\/h5>

Head of Sustainability Strategy | Principal Consultant<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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