Sustainability Manager - Non Food

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, please talk to the Hiring Manager about how they can support you.

We are delighted to share that we are now recruiting for a Sustainability Manager within our Home & Clothing department here at Tesco!

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing the strategy to reach our sustainability goals across Home & Clothing, ultimately supporting delivery of our Planet Plan and Net Zero commitment.

You'll be a subject-matter expert for sustainability in Home & Clothing retail and oversee delivery of a highly credible and ambitious strategy focused on transforming business practices towards a better future for the planet!

• Continual improvement and expansion of sustainability datasets, and conducting materiality and risk assessments to inform strategy.
• Working with our Home & Clothing packaging circularity manager to continue embedding circularity into product design.
• Raising and maintaining the profile of the Home & Clothing sustainability agenda across the business, ensuring all key internal stakeholders are consulted and informed.
• Managing external relationships and represent Tesco on collaborative sustainability initiatives across key forums, NGOs and Government to drive industry-wide transformation. 
• Measuring and reporting on our sustainability targets, supporting the Sustainability Programme Manager to develop the Home & Clothing sustainability dashboard.
• Managing all Home & Clothing sustainability reporting commitments, ensuring we are submitting accurate data and meeting all specified deadlines.

• Home and / or Clothing sustainability experience.
• Sustainability strategy development and programme management experience.
• Experience managing reporting and disclosure requirements.
• Data management and analysis experience.
• Exception presentation and influencing skills.
• Experience managing stakeholders internally and externally.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here. 

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.