Job Description

In the Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability team, we protect and enhance the reputation of our brand. We work with those in our business and supply chains to ensure we operate in an ethical and sustainable way and strive to protect our planet for future generations. We look after all aspects of corporate responsibility and sustainability and work to improve the lives of the people in the communities we serve and source from. We have a varied and diverse workload looking at matters such as climate change, waste and biodiversity as well as labour practices across our global supply chain.

As our Environmental Sustainability Manager for Nature you\xe2\x80\x99ll:

• Support the Head of Environmental Sustainability on the development, continuous improvement and implementation of our group environmental sustainability strategy.

• Determine our \xe2\x80\x98position\xe2\x80\x99 on key issues, working across the brands and channels to coordinate the company position and to determine ways to embed, train, manage and coordinate within the company.

• Maintain your subject matter expertise through formal and informal training across a number of environmental themes, such as climate, deforestation, nature and water stewardship

• Compile and draft approaches, policies, and standards for internal sign-off and update as and when required to maintain Sainsbury\xe2\x80\x99s agreed position for given impact areas.

• Lead the agenda with relevant stakeholders to embed and deliver the Group\xe2\x80\x99s sustainability strategy, including colleagues, suppliers, investors and NGOs

• Embed our responsible sourcing strategy and ensure commercial teams and suppliers (including GNFR suppliers) are aligned to our values and strategy; through supporting and embedding the approach \xe2\x80\x98in the line\xe2\x80\x99 and directly through supply chains with all relevant actors

• Identifying, leading, and managing the implementation of supply chain initiatives aligned to our investment strategy.

• Deal with issues management with our brand communications and category teams, ensuring clear escalation and recommendations on approach on all sustainability issues.

Our Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Team would love to see candidates that have:

• Degree and significant experience in environmental sustainability, preferably within the food or General Merchandise and Clothing sectors

• Experience in the management of environmental risks in food and/ or non-food supply chains

• More specifically, we are looking for candidates who have specialist knowledge and experience working across one or more of the below areas: Biodiversity, Water stewardship, Regenerative agriculture

• Experience at manipulating complex sustainability datasets on tools such as Microsoft Excel

• Familiar with the complexities of a large customer-focused business, delivering results at a rapid pace

• Knowledge of relevant networks and stakeholders in the field of environmental sustainability

• Experienced at managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders, including budgets

• Familiar with risk assessment and management, prioritising activities in an environment of competing priorities

• Capable of training, coaching, and providing on-going support to both internal and external stakeholders

• Experience at managing communication and reporting \xe2\x80\x93 preferable on sustainability topics - including planning, supporting delivery and maintaining content where appropriate.

• Ability to work flexibly around an evolving agenda

Why Sainsbury\xe2\x80\x99s?

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

As well as a great work-life balance, lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, click here for more detail on our benefits:

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