Supply Chain Climate Transition Lead

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

About this opportunity

We're passionate about enabling the group to deliver against our environmental strategy ambitions, protect nature and support the UK’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2050. If you're too, we could be a great fit!

We're a high profile and impactful team. The Supply Chain & Technology Sustainability Team sits within Group Sourcing & Supplier Management, and we're responsible for ensuring we improve the sustainability impacts of our supply chain. This includes reducing the carbon emissions that our suppliers generate and ensuring our suppliers meet other broader Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) requirements around issues such as ethics, modern slavery, human rights and nature.

This role is essential in supporting how we improve the assessment and compliance of our suppliers (new and existing) against evolving ESG. We align ourselves to the Group’s Sustainability strategy and ambitions and in particular the Group’s public ambition to reduce supply chain emissions by 50% by 2030, on the path to net zero by 2050. Our broader team have accountability for Sustainability for the Group Chief Operating Office, providing the opportunity to gain exposure and learning around activity to improve the Sustainability of our technology and data.

We're looking for someone who wants to make a difference. You'll be passionate about contributing to a more sustainable future, staying up to date with current affairs and bringing new insights into the team. This is a great opportunity to join a successful team, with significant opportunities for cross divisional engagement and external collaboration.

In this role, you’ll be personally leading on engagement with around 160 suppliers to understand how they intend to transition to net zero and using those conversations to form insights and come up with strategy to further support our suppliers as they transform.

What you’ll do

• Ownership of the supply chain sustainability strategy development, including future Emerald Standard requirements definition, assessment of group risk appetite to introduce sustainability-linked commercial leavers in sourcing and supplier management processes.
• Developing and delivering an internal engagement strategy to increase supply chain sustainability accountability at divisional and exec level.
• Ownership of the Emerald Standard Assessments process including oversight of support team and data management processes.
• Engaging and assessing around 160 suppliers to understand their transition plans and produce insights for sharing across the group.
• Providing Sustainability expertise to broader topics across the team including doing research on a range of topics as required to feed into decisions.
• Lead project delivery for improving the process including reviewing and reducing process steps and finding opportunities for automation.

What you’ll need

A passion for sustainability as well as an understanding of key UK ESG legislation and regulatory developments, IT platforms (eg CDP, EcoVadis) and principles of transition planning for carbon emissions reduction.

• Sustainability: must have experience working in the Sustainability field.
• Technical Knowledge: understanding of GHG Protocol, carbon accounting, supply chain impacts, lifecycle assessments and carbon offsetting.
• Collaboration: the ability to work with a high number of suppliers with differing needs and priorities.
• Communication: excellent verbal and written skills with the ability to adapt key messaging to different audiences.
• Project Delivery: evidence of delivery in a fast-paced environment across multiple projects at the same time.
• Understanding of organisational climate goals: a good knowledge of how climate goals are set with an understanding of what actions will influence the business in achieving these goals.
• Data Analysis: able to interpret data and use this to prioritise and drive actions that support the goals of reducing carbon emissions.

It would be great if you also had

• Experience working on sustainability-based projects or projects where supply chain was the primary focus.
• Experience working within a team focused on transition planning.
• Understanding of supplier management and sourcing processes and tools.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.