Hours:
This role is for a permanent positon working full time 35 hours per week/
This role offers hybrid working with three days a week in our Skitpon office.
Closing Date:
Tue, 24 Nov 2026
Job introduction
Help shape how Skipton supports members to make their homes more energy efficient, affordable to run and resilient to a changing climate. Sitting within our Group Sustainability team and working in close partnership with our mortgage business, Homes, as Group Sustainable Homes Senior Lead, you’ll set the direction for sustainable and climate-resilient homes, turning our climate ambitions into practical action.
This is a senior specialist role with real reach. You’ll bring together Homes, Risk, Finance, Data, Marketing and Corporate Affairs. You’ll have the trust and space to form clear plans, influence key decisions and build partnerships that can improve homes across the UK.
You may already be shaping strategy, policy or propositions and be ready to take greater ownership for turning ideas into coordinated action at scale. Here, your work will have a clear purpose for members, while giving you wider exposure and the chance to grow your influence across the Group.
At Skipton, we're founded on fairness. We exist to do right by our members and we believe that starts with doing right by our people. So, whoever you are and whatever you bring, there's a place for you here and a genuine plan for where you go next.
What You’ll Do
Your key responsibilities will include:
Shape and lead our sustainable and climate-resilient homes approach with Homes, turning our climate ambitions into practical action to support energy efficiency improvements, affordability and climate resilience for members.
Lead the sustainability response to climate risks affecting homes and members, including flooding, overheating, subsidence, energy costs and access to insurance, working with Homes, Risk and other teams to identify practical ways to improve resilience.
Use financed emissions data and wider insight to understand opportunities across the residential mortgage portfolio and help shape sustainable homes initiatives.
Develop useful home improvement support, propositions, customer journeys, partnerships and trials with Homes, Money and Marketing teams, using insight to focus support where it can have the greatest impact.
Build strong links with government, industry bodies and other partners to help remove barriers and improve outcomes for homeowners.
Work with Homes, Money and Marketing teams to identify and develop opportunities, bringing together customer, commercial, sustainability, policy and regulatory considerations to help decide what should be explored, tested or scaled.
Bring teams together around a coordinated approach, tracking progress, dependencies, risks and outcomes, and giving senior leaders clear advice and constructive challenge where needed.
What You’ll Need
Strong strategic thinking, able to connect climate, housing, affordability, customer needs, risk and commercial priorities and turn them into practical action.
Strong influencing, communication and collaboration skills, with the confidence to make progress without direct control of each team.
Sound commercial judgement and a practical, member-focused approach, balancing sustainability ambitions with affordability, risk, cost and what the Society can realistically influence and deliver.
Strong knowledge of the UK housing and mortgage market, including the challenges people face in improving the energy efficiency and resilience of their homes.
Good understanding of climate change, including climate risks, financed emissions and relevant regulatory requirements, and how these could affect homes, lending, affordability and member outcomes.
Experience shaping and delivering a sustainability, housing, climate or related strategy across several teams.
A record of turning complex evidence into clear choices, plans and recommendations for senior leaders.
Experience working with external…