Samuel Cutler Email & Phone Number

Nottingham, England, Gb

Nottingham, England, Gb

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Gb

Hunter Douglas UK (formerly Hillarys group) is the UK largest made to measure window coverings business with 1800 staff and 300m GBP sales. Direct to trade and consumer with large UK manufacturing presence and multiple brands. RESPONSIBLE FOR:◙ Leading development & delivery of HD UK first formal environmental sustainability strategy ◙ Developing & delivering materials sourcing strategy and targets to increase sourcing of more sustainable materials◙ Developing & delivering work programmes on packaging reduction & recyclability, operations energy reduction & production waste reduction and recycling.◙ Developing regulations strategy, compliance and reporting processes for UK & Global (Key regulations: CSRD, CBAM, EUDR, Modern Slavery, UK CRFD, EPR, UK PPT, Green Claims Code)◙ Developing internal communications & engagement plan◙ Regularly engaging with Board, demonstrating progress and briefing on opportunity / risk◙ Integrating sustainability into business practices and fostering internal function ownership◙ Working with product, sales & marketing to extract commercial benefits from sustainability initiativesKEY FY23 ACHIEVEMENTS: ◙ 11% increase in ‘more sustainable alternative’ textile POM from 0%, with targets set for 43% FY25◙ 28% reduction in scopes 1&2 carbon emissions & transitioned to 100% renewable energy◙ 4% increase in packaging recyclability to 81% ◙ Delivered first UK CRFD report ◙ Launched company first Green Action Week and Environmental Champions network

Bristol, Gb

- Water Company Lead for Severn Trent Water, providing guidance and technical information for Water Resources Management Plans (WRMP) and Drought Plans (DP) and conducting annual water company reviews. - Supporting strategic regional and national planning and national drought planning.

Bristol, Gb

Working within the Water Resources National Permitting Service. - Lead projects/working groups to develop and introduce solutions to problems or bring strategic/organisational/legislative change into WR NPS. The overall goal being to support and improve environmental outcomes.- Develop and maintain operational business processes/guidance- maintaining quality through quality assurance audits and continuous improvement. - Provide Permitting Process technical advice and support, training and communications.- Lead User of Water Resources Screening Tool project group. Developing and delivering guidance, training, communications and ongoing monitoring, auditing and support.- Build and maintain relationships with wider business (e..g E&B) to ensure mutually beneficial and effective working relationship, including representing NPS in the wider business.

Bristol, Gb

- Provision of instructions and guidance to operational teams across organisation who are involved in water abstraction permitting, compliance and enforcement work.- Lead User of Water Resources Screening Tool project group. Developing and delivering guidance, training, communications and ongoing monitoring, auditing and support.

Bristol, Gb

New role very similar to previous role, with the addition of:- Training, mentoring and supporting new staff and team. - Determine highly complex applications - power stations, public water supply, quarries. Key achievements: - Became national dewatering (construction and engineering) Sector Lead - supporting teams on a national level with these applications, developing and writing guidance and resources and consulting and engaging with large industry stakeholders. - Became team Conservation Lead due to breadth of knowledge in this area - supporting team and overseeing all conservation assessments.- As below role, delivering national Water Resources Screening Tool project (received recognition award for this).

Bristol, Gb

My role:- Protect the environment and support economic growth through technical determination of applications for environmental permits and licences, specialising in Water Resources. - Provide technical advice and guidance to internal and external stakeholders.Key achievements:- Exceeded overall annual target by 32%. - Delivering national project of developing GIS screening software with internal stakeholders and external consultants. - Delivered bi-annual Area Engagement Day project (received recognition award for this). - Took ownership of and delivered improvements to internal information networks.- Supported nationally with habitats assessments of critical water company drought work.

Melton Mowbray, Gb

Moved down to a part-time role (21 hours per week) to fund MSc Environmental Management. Moved back to full-time post-MSc.- Written and implemented an Environmental Management Plan to obtain Investors in the Environment (IiE) environmental accreditation. - Worked closely with Western Power Distribution and Fleetdrive Electric on the early stages in the running of the Electric Nation project. - Bookkeeping management of sales ledger (invoicing), purchase ledger and reconciliation.- Responding to customer enquiries and complaints.- Risk assessment and method statement production. - General office administration.

Melton Mowbray, Gb

- Day-to-day management of office and office staff, including work delegation and management of staff workload and output.- Management of office expenditure and budget.- Responding to complex customer enquiries and resolving complaints. - Design, implementation and improvement of office processes. - General office administration.

Melton Mowbray, Gb

- Responding to customer enquiries and complaints. - Design and implementation of new office processes. - General office administration.

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Gb

- Assisting Environmental Consultants in research (with particular focus on the Energy Savings Opportunity and Efficiency Scheme - ESOS) and consultancy with clients.- Undertaking of marketing activities to promote Loreus software, training and consultancy.- To research and keep up-to-date with relevant updates in the sector, so as to inform the team and clients.- Undertaking Loreus courses such as the EMS Auditor Course, EMS (ISO 14001), Carbon Management, Environmental Legislation and Sustainable Development, passing exams for each of these. Funded by winning graduate grant scheme funding. I gained in-depth knowledge of new ESOS legislation and was involved in consultation with businesses such as Games Workshop regarding this. See below for presentation produced by myself for the Games Workshop facilities team. This was used to introduce the company to new ESOS legislation prior to a meeting involving Games Workshop, myself and another Loreus consultant.

Master Of Science (Msc), Environmental Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Biology (Ecology And Environmental Management)

Biology, Chemistry, Psychology, Maths.