Sustainability Analyst - Climate

Tesco UK; Digswell; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco UK is seeking a Sustainability Analyst to join our Climate team within Tesco's Quality function. You will use data-driven insights to shape our sustainability strategy, build robust business cases, and support key decision-making across the business.

You will own reporting processes, engage suppliers, collaborate with teams, and promote sustainability agendas, with focus on data governance and stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in data analysis, reporting, and generating actionable insights.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to build and manage stakeholder and supplier relationships.

Responsibilities

• Own the reporting process and drive continual improvement, collecting quarterly emissions data and presenting insights to teams.
• Participate in the annual assurance process.
• Provide data for sustainability KPIs, CDP rankings, press, and NGO inquiries.
• Lead processing of supplier payments for the Climate workstream.
• Engage suppliers on data collection in annual engagement campaign.
• Engage the wider group sustainability team and collaborate on climate projects.
• Build relationships across the business and promote sustainability agendas.

Skills

Data analysis

Reporting

Stakeholder engagement

Presentation skills

Microsoft Office

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Outlook

Job description

We're looking for a Sustainability Analyst to join our Climate team within Tesco's Quality function. You'll use data-driven insights to shape our sustainability strategy, build robust business cases, and support key decision-making across the business. Working closely with teams across Property, Transport, Business Units, and ESG Finance, you'll help ensure climate data is effectively managed, reported, and embedded into governance processes. Join a passionate team driving Tesco's Net Zero ambitions through best-in-class analysis and insight.

• Owning the reporting process and driving continual improvement:
  • Working with colleagues in hubs to collect quarterly emissions data and presenting insights & results to the relevant teams.
  • Participate in the annual assurance process.
  • Providing the data to report our performance when required to feed into our sustainability KPIs, public third party rankings (e.g. CDP), as well as press, customers and NGO inquiries.
• Leading the processing of supplier payments for the Climate workstream.
• Engaging suppliers on data collection in annual engagement campaign.
• Engaging the wider group sustainability team through monthly connects, and working alongside subject matter experts in climate, nature and forests, with opportunities to step into projects across the wider sustainability team.
• Building relationships across the business, and passionately promoting the sustainability agendas.

• Strong experience in data analysis, reporting, and generating actionable insights, with the ability to present findings clearly through both visualisations and stakeholder presentations.
• Knowledge of environmental sustainability and industry trends, coupled with a genuine passion for people and the planet.
• Proven ability to build and manage stakeholder and supplier relationships, working effectively across functions to influence decision-making.
• Experience driving process and system improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and reporting quality.
• Highly organised with excellent attention to detail, able to prioritise competing demands and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills, with confidence engaging and presenting to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Outlook.

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

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