Sustainability Data Analyst

Role overview

What the role is accountable for

• Collect, consolidate and maintain sustainability data from internal systems, suppliers and external sources; ensure completeness, consistency and traceability.
• Validate data quality, investigate anomalies, resolve gaps with data owners and strengthen reporting controls.
• Analyse sustainability performance across operations, products and supply chains, including emissions, responsible sourcing, packaging, waste and circularity.
• Maintain dashboards, scorecards and recurring reports tracking performance against targets and highlighting trends, risks and opportunities.
• Translate complex data into insight, commentary and recommendations for teams, governance forums and senior stakeholders.
• Support carbon accounting, forecasting, scenario analysis and target tracking using agreed methods and auditable assumptions.
• Partner with commercial, technical, sourcing, finance, data and supplier teams to define data requirements and embed processes.
• Document data definitions, methodologies and calculations for assurance, disclosure and governance.
• Provide evidence and audit support for year-end sustainability, climate and energy reporting, including TCFD, SECR and ESOS.
• Find opportunities to automate, simplify and improve data collection, analysis and reporting.

What the candidate needs to know

• Degree, professional qualification or equivalent experience in data analytics, sustainability, environmental science, statistics, business, geography or a related discipline.
• Experience collecting, cleaning, validating and analysing large or complex datasets; strong accuracy and attention to detail.
• Advanced spreadsheet skills and experience with visualisation or BI tools for dashboards and reports.
• Ability to identify trends, anomalies, risks and opportunities and communicate actionable insight.
• Understanding of sustainability metrics, carbon emissions, supplier and product data, and wider environmental indicators.
• Organisation to manage reporting cycles, data requests and competing priorities.
• Experience documenting definitions, methodologies, assumptions and controls for transparent audit trails.
• Clear communication and stakeholder management, including explaining technical findings to non-technical colleagues.

Desirable experience

• Power BI, Tableau or a comparable visualisation platform and structured data from multiple systems are desirable.
• SQL, data modelling, automation, carbon accounting, the GHG Protocol, lifecycle assessment and sustainability disclosure frameworks are desirable.
• Product, supplier, procurement or retail datasets, data assurance, regulatory reporting, sustainability targets and forecasts are desirable.

Compensation

• Salary is described as competitive, with no specific amount or pay cadence stated.

Benefits

• Benefits include colleague discounts, pension, life cover and a potentially eligible performance-related bonus.
• Other listed benefits include annual leave, the option to buy additional leave, season-ticket loans, cycle-to-work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance, retailer discounts and an employee assistance programme.
• Maternity or adoption leave may include up to 26 weeks' pay and paternity leave up to 4 weeks' pay; eligibility criteria may apply.