Carbon & Sustainability Impact Specialist

First Recruitment Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Carbon & Sustainability Impact Specialist in Greater London. The role involves managing sustainability metrics, validating carbon data, and creating dashboards. The ideal candidate has a bachelor's degree and experience in sustainability, with strong analytical skills and attention to detail. Flexible and hybrid working conditions are offered.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of analytical work experience in sustainability.
• Knowledge of carbon footprint calculation and reporting is essential.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work accurately required.

Responsibilities

• Manage sustainability metrics and KPIs.
• Validate emission factors and carbon data.
• Prepare quality check reports for data accuracy.
• Create reporting tools for ESG impact measurement.
• Support project management tasks involving data.

Skills

Carbon footprint calculation

Analytical skills

Excel expertise

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Independence

Education

Bachelor's degree in analytical or sustainability fields

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Carbon & Sustainability Impact Specialist

Location: Greater London Sector: Other Job Type: Contract Salary: Market related Reference: SK/R089935

Role

Our client are looking to recruit a Carbon and Sustainability Impact Specialist with 3-5 years’ experience in Carbon Calculations specifically in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The role is located in London with hybrid working on offer.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical and analytical data processing and management of key sustainability metrics and KPIs.
• Gathering and validating emission factors and carbon data across different sustainable innovation projects of the breakthrough innovation portfolio.
• Preparing internal quality check reports to ensure accurate data.
• Correlating innovation impact contribution to the broader organisational targets/KPIs.
• Analysing carbon data and taking out different carbon reports.
• Creating specific measurement tools for ESG impact measurement of innovations through specific carbon, water, and nature know-how aligned to external science-based target measurements.
• Support overall admin tasks in project management of the BI pipeline (make presentations, plotting graphs, spreadsheets, Power BI, etc.).
• Create, adapt, and monitor spreadsheets and/or Power BI dashboards (tools to support project management of multi-stakeholders).
• Responding to data-related queries and keeping track of these.
• Analysing data to identify cross-functional trends, patterns, and anomalies.
• Support the setup of processes and systems to make working with data more efficiently.
• Producing reports and charts to communicate trends within data to non-specialists providing essential support.
• Presenting information generated from data, which will be the basis of strategic recommendations.

Experience required

• Minimum a bachelor's degree, preferably in analytical or sustainability related fields.
• Knowledge of carbon footprint calculation and reporting is essential.
• Analytical skills with solid expertise in excel and other analysis tools.
• At least 4 years of analytical work experience preferably in sustainability fields is desirable.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to work quickly and accurately is essential.
• Strong teamwork skills are essential but also the ability to work independently on projects.
• The ability and willingness to carry out repetitive tasks quickly and accurately is required.

Education

• Minimum a bachelor's degree, preferably in analytical or sustainability related fields.
• Knowledge of carbon footprint calculation and reporting is essential.
• Analytical skills with solid expertise in excel and other analysis tools.

As part of putting people first, we strive to be an equal opportunities employer and we are always looking to increase the diversity of our workforce, working closely with our clients to ensure everyone is included.