Sustainability Business Partner: Data & Strategy

Woodie's; Dublin; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Woodie’s, Ireland’s leading DIY, Home & Garden retailer, seeks a Sustainability Business Partner to coordinate Woodie’s sustainability strategy across Commercial, Finance, Operations, HR, and external partners. You’ll support reporting, regulatory readiness, data collection and supplier engagement, translating requirements into practical actions.

This role focuses on coordinating multiple stakeholders, ensuring deadlines are met, and driving ESG initiatives across product sourcing, packaging,

Qualifications

• Experience in sustainability, ESG, compliance, project coordination or a related business partnering role.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, deadlines and stakeholders.
• Good understanding of sustainability principles, ideally in a retail, supplier, product, packaging or commercial environment.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical or regulatory topics into clear, practical actions.
• Good analytical skills and comfort working with data, trackers, dashboards and reporting packs.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Commercial, Finance, HR, Operations, IT, Group functions or suppliers.
• Strong attention to detail, especially where information is used for compliance, reporting or supplier follow-up.
• Confidence following up with stakeholders and maintaining momentum across actions.

Responsibilities

• Act as a day-to-day sustainability partner for Commercial, Category, Finance, HR, Operations and other business teams.
• Coordinate sustainability actions across departments and ensure owners understand requirements, timelines and dependencies.
• Support the recurring Sustainability x Commercial rhythm, including agenda preparation, action tracking, follow-up with Category teams and escalation of key risks.
• Help business teams understand how sustainability impacts product sourcing, packaging, supplier due diligence, community investment, volunteering, energy, waste and reporting.
• Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners, including Group Sustainability, and relevant industry bodies.
• Coordinate quarterly and annual sustainability reporting inputs for Woodie's and Group requirements.
• Support preparation of ESG scorecards, QBR updates, leadership updates and Group reporting submissions.
• Track key sustainability KPIs across Scope 1 & 2 emissions, waste, recycling, timber certification, supplier risk, volunteering, community investment and sustainability dashboard outputs.
• Support continued development of the Woodie's Sustainability Dashboard and ensure reporting outputs are useful for decision-making, not only data collection.
• Coordinate Woodie's response to evolving sustainability requirements, including PPWR, EUDR, CBAM, CSRD-related data requirements and supplier due diligence.
• Translate regulatory requirements into business-friendly actions, timelines, templates and supplier requests.
• Support documentation processes for packaging, importer obligations, supplier declarations, product attributes and sustainability evidence.
• Work with Commercial, Category and supplier-facing teams to ensure sustainability data is gathered at the right stage of the product lifecycle.
• Maintain visibility of upcoming deadlines and ensure relevant teams are briefed in advance.
• Support sustainability requirements within product listing, ERP / BC24 and supplier data processes.
• Coordinate sustainability attribute requirements for new product listing, including fields, dropdowns, validation logic and guidance for suppliers.
• Work with IT, Commercial and Category teams to test sustainability data capture processes and identify data quality issues early.
• Support supplier requests relating to EUDR, CBAM, packaging, product weights, chemical hazard information, energy labelling and other sustainability fields.
• Help define and maintain practical data standards that balance compliance, business usability and supplier capability.
• Coordinate packaging improvement workstreams, including packaging data collection, Repak-related reporting, PPWR readiness and packaging optimisation opportunities.
• Support Commercial teams in identifying opportunities to reduce non-recyclable packaging and improve packaging standards for own-brand products.
• Help develop supplier-facing packaging guidance and internal documentation.
• Work with relevant teams to understand future fee implications, data requirements and operational impacts of packaging changes.
• Support supplier due diligence activity, including EcoVadis tracking, supplier engagement, corrective action follow-up and escalation of non-engagement.
• Coordinate with Category Managers and Commercial leadership where supplier sustainability risks require follow-up.
• Maintain trackers and evidence needed for Group and internal reporting.
• Help embed due diligence expectations into supplier processes and product listing requirements.
• Support sustainability communications, training and colleague awareness initiatives.
• Help develop content for onboarding, sustainability training, colleague updates, committee updates and internal awareness campaigns.
• Coordinate inputs from HR, Operations and other teams on volunteering, energy awareness, waste segregation and colleague engagement.
• Translate sustainability topics into practical, accessible messaging for stores and support office colleagues.
• Support sustainability budget tracking and forecasting where required.
• Help collate and summarise sustainability-related costs, including CBAM, Repak, due diligence costs and other regulatory cost pressures.
• Work with Finance and Commercial teams to understand product, supplier and margin implications of sustainability costs.
• Support leadership updates on sustainability cost exposure and mitigation options.

Skills

Stakeholder coordination

Data management

Excel

Power BI

Communication

Attention to detail

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory awareness

Tools

Power BI

Excel

EcoVadis

Job description

Woodie’s, Ireland’s leading DIY, Home & Garden retailer, seeks a Sustainability Business Partner to coordinate Woodie’s sustainability strategy across Commercial, Finance, Operations, HR, and external partners. You’ll support reporting, regulatory readiness, data collection and supplier engagement, translating requirements into practical actions.

This role focuses on coordinating multiple stakeholders, ensuring deadlines are met, and driving ESG initiatives across product sourcing, packaging,