We’re expanding our market engagement team with two inspiring new roles in sustainability.
Following continued growth ‘You. Smart. Thing.’ is looking for Sustainable Travel Consultants and a Strategic Partnerships Manager. You can find a short company overview, job descriptions, and application instructions below (please note that we do not work with recruitment agencies and only accept direct applications).
Who? ‘You. Smart. Thing.’ (YST) is the leading travel demand management platform for destinations, venues, and live events.
What? Our map-based travel assistant service enhances visitor experience & increases revenues whilst reducing the disproportionate carbon footprint created by travel.
Why? A 30% cut in transport carbon emissions by 2030 equals about 16% of required atmospheric decarbonisation for climate stability. * It’s a crucial step we can take now.
How? YST helps organisations achieve sustainability ROI by providing personalised low-carbon travel plans for visitors that incentivise behaviour change.
Which? Live events account for as much as 80% of transit-based emissions. This is why we focus on the sports, music, cultural, conference, and hospitality sectors.
When? Q3/4 2024. Whilst our approach is measured, there is a sense of urgency about helping our clients accelerate their journey towards net zero and beyond.
Where? Our platform and founding relationships were developed in the UK. We’re operational in Europe, North America, and Australia with roles available in each market.
*Based on 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) data.
Sustainable Travel Consultant (open)
As a Sustainable Travel Consultant at ‘You. Smart. Thing.’ your primary responsibilities will be:
- Identifying organisations that are responsible for visitors attending destinations, venues, and events (with activity supported by YST’s marketing team)
- Managing a contact and deal pipeline on the HubSpot CRM platform from initial engagement through contractual agreement to service deployment
- Drafting email-based outreach campaigns to engage relevant stakeholders within identified organisations (typically their sustainability, operations, and marketing leads)
- Progressing opportunities generated by our membership and commercial partnership activities
- Demonstrating the YST platform, both remotely and in prospective client meetings, including platform configuration options that can maximise visitor engagement and travel behaviour change
- Modelling and drafting commercial proposals that clearly demonstrate impact and return on investment: carbon reduction; risk mitigation (financial and safety), brand positioning and sponsorship, ESG compliance, and improved visitor experience/spend)
About You
Experience, Skills & Qualifications
- At least 1 year of relevant workplace experience
- First class degree or equivalent
- Excellent written, verbal communication, and numeracy skills
- Comfortable drafting and formatting proposals and presentations
- Tech savvy (we use Microsoft Office 365 on Macs)
- Demonstrable passion for environmental sustainability
Benefits
- £30-40,000pa (subject to exp.), pension, private healthcare
- Quarterly companywide reward scheme
- Employee share option scheme
- Flexible working from home and shared workspace
- Personal and career development support
How to apply: In the first instance please send your CV and a covering email explaining why you are interested in and suitable for this position to: hello@yousmartthing.com
Please mark the subject of your email ‘YST STC Application’.
Strategic Partnerships Manager (position closed)
As a Strategic Partnerships Manager at ‘You. Smart. Thing.’ your primary responsibilities will be:
- Forging lasting and impactful relationships across our destination, venue, and event clients, local authorities, and transport operators.
- Liaison with our Product & Customer Success teams, to ensure effective delivery against client ESG and commercial objectives.
- Organising and hosting strategic partnership engagement meetings and events, both remotely and in face-to-face meetings settings.
- Identifying and brokering commercial partnership strategies that deliver mutual benefit in line with stakeholder decarbonisation and socio-economic objectives.
- Project managing innovative technology-based or digital transformation initiatives whilst ensuring stakeholder buy-in and user engagement.
- Forming consortia to respond to publicly funded innovation competitions and overseeing funding submissions.
- Authoring and overseeing the production of periodic impact reports for key clients and stakeholders.
About You
Experience, Skills & Qualifications
- At least 5 years of relevant workplace experience.
- First class degree or equivalent.
- Excellent written, verbal communication, and numeracy skills
- Comfortable drafting and formatting proposals and presentations, including responding to innovation competitions and commercial tenders
- Experience of managing multi-stakeholder groups comprising public and private sector members.
- Project management experience including resource and budget forecasting
- Tech savvy (we use Microsoft Office 365 on Macs)
- Demonstrable passion for environmental sustainability
Benefits
- £50,000pa, pension, private healthcare
- Quarterly companywide reward scheme
- Employee share option scheme
- Flexible working from home and shared workspace
- Personal and career development support
How to apply: In the first instance please send your CV and a covering email explaining why you are interested in and suitable for this position to: hello@yousmartthing.com
Please mark the subject of your email ‘YST SPM Application’.
