• Job Description

  Req#: 208703

  In the Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability team, we protect and enhance the reputation of our brand and seek to build the resilience of the business. We work with those in our business, supply chains and strategic partners to deliver excellence in environmental, social and governance factors (ESG). 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 Manager for Climate you’ll:

  • Support the Head of Environmental Sustainability on the development, continuous improvement and implementation of our group environmental sustainability strategy.
  • Determine 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.
  • Maintain your subject matter expertise through formal and informal training across a number of environmental themes, such as climate, deforestation, nature and water stewardship
  • 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.
  • Embed our responsible sourcing strategy and ensure commercial teams and suppliers (including GNFR suppliers) are aligned to our values and strategy; through supporting and embedding the approach ‘in the line’ and directly through supply chains with all relevant actors
  • Identifying, leading, and managing the implementation of supply chain initiatives aligned to our investment strategy.
  • Deal with issues management with our brand communications and category teams, ensuring clear escalation and recommendations on approach on all sustainability issues.
  • Ensure effective internal and external communications, providing content for communications teams.
  • Develop appropriate, relevant training content for suppliers and colleagues.
  • Be a brand ambassador for Sainsbury’s through engagement with relevant external stakeholders (incl. multi-stakeholder forums, government, suppliers, regulators etc.)
  • Budget management and effective business case development for sustainability programmes
  • Demonstrate at all times alignment to Sainsbury’s values; own it, make it better, be human.
  • Lead the agenda with relevant stakeholders to embed and deliver the Group’s sustainability strategy, including colleagues, suppliers, investors and NGOs

  Our Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Team would love to see candidates that have:

  • Degree and significant experience in environmental sustainability, preferably within the food or General Merchandise and Clothing sectors
  • Experience in the management of environmental risks in food and/ or non-food (general merchandise / clothing) supply chains
  • Supplier Scope 3 strategy and action plans to meet SBTi targets
  • Scope 3 reporting methodology in the Food sector (eg SBTi FLAG, CDP, Manufacturing2030)
  • Climate Transition Plans, including climate resilience.
  • Carbon pricing
  • Emission reductions across fuel & logistics
  • Industry collaboration on Scope 3
  • Experience at manipulating complex sustainability datasets on tools such as Microsoft Excel
  • 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 environmental sustainability
  • Able to navigate environment of high ambiguity and change – in exchange for support and guidance
  • Experienced at managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders, including budgets
  • Familiar with risk assessment and management, prioritising activities in an environment of competing priorities
  • Capable of training, coaching, and providing on-going support to both internal and external stakeholders
  • Experience at managing communication and reporting – preferable on sustainability topics - including planning, supporting delivery and maintaining content where appropriate.
  • Ability to work flexibly around an evolving agenda

  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 20% 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, and we provide private heathcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, 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.

• About the company

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