In the Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability team, we protect and enhance the reputation of our brand. We work with those in our business and supply chains to ensure we operate in an ethical and sustainable way and strive to protect our planet for future generations. We look after all aspects of corporate responsibility and sustainability and work to improve the lives of the people in the communities we serve and source from. We have a varied and diverse workload looking at matters such as climate change, waste and biodiversity as well as labour practices across our global supply chain.

As our Sustainability Executive you’ll:

• Support the Heads of Environment and Sustainability managers on the execution of our group environment strategy.
• Support in determining our ‘position’ on key issues, working across the brands and channels to coordinate the company position and to determine ways to embed, train, manage and coordinate within the company.
• Support to compile and draft approaches, policies and standards for internal sign-off and update as and when required to maintain Sainsbury’s agreed position for given impact areas.
• Support in embedding our sourcing strategy and ensure commercial teams and suppliers are aligned to our values and strategy; through supporting and embedding the approach ‘in the line’ and directly through supply chains
• Deal with issues management ensuring clear escalation and recommendations on approach on all environmental issues.
• Ensure effective internal and external communications, providing content for communications teams.
• Develop appropriate, relevant training content for suppliers and colleagues.
• Budget management and effective business case development for sustainability programmes
• Respond to colleague and external queries on sustainability drafting accurate and effective responses for sign off which show a thoughtful and balanced position.
• Support relevant stakeholders to embed and deliver the Group’s environment strategy, including colleagues and suppliers

Our Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Team would love to see:

• Familiar with the complexities of a large customer-focused business, delivering results at a rapid pace
• Knowledge of relevant networks and stakeholders in the field of sustainability
• Experience of managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders, including budgets
• Familiar with risk assessment and management, prioritising activities in an environment of competing priorities
• Ability to work flexibly around an evolving agenda
• Degree and experience in the management of environmental risks in supply chains, preferably within the food or General Merchandise and Clothing sector

Why Sainsbury’s?

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

As well as a great work-life balance, lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, click here for more detail on our benefits: https://sainsburys.jobs/working-for-us/benefits/

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Qualifications

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibiity criteria may apply).

Responsibilities

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re one of the biggest supermarkets in the UK with one of the largest websites. So marketing here really happens at scale. We move a lot faster than you’d think too, across Brand Planning, Brand Comms and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360, Insights, and Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. More people shopping with us each week means more interactions. And thanks to data insight, we understand customers in a way that almost nobody else does. We work alongside incredible brand partners and the best agencies around. So if you have a passion to learn, grow and experience new teams, come and explore it all with us.