Customer Sustainability Project Manager

DS Smith London, England May 13, 2026

Type Full Time
Pay Not listed
Work Hybrid
Level Senior

Customer Sustainability Project Manager focuses on manage a new customer sustainability project delivery framework, encouraging rigor and more structured ways of working.

What the role involves

  • Manage a new Customer Sustainability project delivery framework, encouraging rigor and more structured ways of working.
  • Supporting the Customer Sustainability Engagement Lead to convert identified customer needs into appropriately structured projects.
  • Develop, own and keep a running log of on-going customer projects.
  • Communicate key milestones to help plan and allocate upcoming resources, hold regular meetings to review projects and requests.
  • Raising possible issues and supporting the Engagement Lead to escalate and take action on any concerns with service levels.
  • Supporting the annual account planning process.

Skills and requirements

  • Relevant leadership, project, operations, people-management, or stakeholder experience is useful.

Confirmed role details

  • Discretionary bonus.
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
  • Pension scheme, life assurance and income protection.
  • UK/ London (Paddington) – hybrid.

Candidate fit

  • ownership, planning discipline, stakeholder communication, and practical delivery judgement

Additional role context

  • We employ more than 65,000 colleagues in North America and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), who are experts in innovation, manufacturing.
  • Design, sales, sustainability, supply chain, and much more.
  • Therefore, this role is in place to ensure we have the correct processes, tools and governance to efficiently triage, set-up.
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