Sustainability Analyst (5 month FTC)

tms; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

tms in London seeks a Sustainability Analyst to join our Global Sustainability Reporting team. You will support annual ESG reporting, collaborating with cross-functional teams, suppliers and clients to ensure accurate data collection and compliant disclosures.

You will review supplier submissions for conformance, escalate issues to keep timelines, and help develop best-practice reporting across geographic regions.

Qualifications

• Attention to detail to identify non-conformance and follow detailed instructions.
• Excellent written and oral communication.
• Reliable self-starter who can prioritize workload.
• Courteous, responsive and helpful to address customer queries.
• Proficient in Excel and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Support annual ESG Sustainability reporting across regions.
• Review Supplier submissions for conformance and provide clear feedback.
• Escalate issues to key contacts to maintain timelines.
• Attend regular cross-functional meetings and collaborate with internal and client teams.
• Liaise with Suppliers via email, outlining non-conformance reasons.
• Assist with additional Sustainability data activities as requested.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Self-starter

Team player

Excel

Data analysis

Tools

Excel

Job description

About Us

tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With 1,200+ employees across 26 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.

About Us

tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With 1,200+ employees across 26 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.

Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.

Most importantly, we’re a place where you can achieve great things, and be recognized as the best.

What Matters The Most

Breakthrough, business-driving ideas come from extraordinary people with the freedom to be their most authentic selves at work. Authenticity and diversity are critical elements of our business. They can only be realized when we create access and equity for all. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging and aspire to be ever-evolving.

tms is a place where brilliant people are better together. If you want your ideas to be heard and to contribute to a culture of inclusion and authenticity, bring us your voice! Visit us at tmsw.com.

WHY WE THINK YOU WILL LOVE THIS ROLE

The Sustainability Analyst will sit within our Global Sustainability Reporting team.

The Sustainability team supports delivery of client Sustainability strategic objectives, focused on product and supply chain, through operations, reporting and legislation tracking. To do so, our team collaborates with key stakeholders across various internal and client cross-functional teams, Suppliers, Consultants and external organizations. Our global Sustainability team sits across 3 geographic regions, supporting global, regional and market activities.

Our team seeks contract support to fulfil annual ESG Sustainability Reporting. This role is critical to achieve our client’s public reporting objective. As part of a supply chain organization, your key stakeholders will include internal cross-functionals teams, clients, and Suppliers. Your efforts will contribute to assessment of packaging responsible sourcing requirements. As a global team member, you will be given a high amount of autonomy as well as responsibility to deliver results in a fast-paced, demanding atmosphere. You will learn Fiber and Plastics programs described as ‘gold standard’ by recognized eNGOs. For this project, you will be part of a small, collaborative team of Sustainability Analysts focused on the same task with responsibilities for different geographic regions.

What You Will Bring To The Organization

• Eagerness to learn Sustainable Sourcing client requirements
• Ability to follow detailed process instructions, raising questions to clarify as needed
• Apply learnings to perform detailed review of Supplier submissions, assessing conformance
• Liaise with Suppliers via written email, clearly outlining non-compliance reasons, which Supplier is asked to correct
• Prompt escalation of issues to key contacts to support achievement of timelines
• Maintain daily log of activities to enable regular status updates
• Identify and communicate risks impacting timeline achievement to manager
• Attend regular meetings
• Collaboratively problem-solve
• Support fast-paced demand
• Bring positivity to support team success
• Willingness to support additional Sustainability data activity as requested

Skills And Experience We Would Like You To Have

• Eye for detail to identify non-conformance issues, ability to follow detailed instructions
• Excellent written/oral communicator
• Reliable self-starter who can prioritize workload, and elevate questions as needed
• Courteous, responsive and helpful to address customer queries
• Comfortable navigating software applications
• Successful contributor in both individual and team context
• Proficient in Excel, data analysis

And we’d love you to…

• Be versed in Sustainability reporting best-practice
• Have Sustainable Sourcing knowledge

Any of the following would be a plus

• Sustainability auditing experience
• Supply Chain experience

If you have any questions about the job, we are open to discussing this role further, so please feel free to get in touch.