Supply Chain Climate Transition Manager

Job Title:  Supply Chain Climate Transition Manager

Salary: £57,546 - £63,940

Location: Edinburgh, Bristol, Halifax or Birmingham

Hours: Full-time (12 Month Secondment/Fixed Term Contract)

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at one of our hub locations

About us

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.

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 requirements. 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.

What you’ll do

• Process Improvements: Understand existing sourcing and supplier management processes to identify and embed improvements which effectively address our supply chain sustainability criteria, information management and requirements.

• Supplier Engagement: Directly engage and assess around 160 suppliers to understand their climate transition plans and produce insights for sharing across the group.

• Stakeholder management: Manage relationships with Group colleagues and external organisations, championing and embedding sustainability values and principles into sourcing and supplier management data, decisions and processes.

• Data collection and analysis: Create and analyse reports from a wide variety of data sources to recommend pathways for improvement.

• Research and industry awareness: Horizon scanning, collaborating closely with internal and external colleagues on ESG developments.

What you’ll need

• A successful track record of owning and delivery of projects.

• A passion for driving improvements to reduce our collective sustainability impacts.

• Ability to positively engage and influence key stakeholders including Group suppliers, external suppliers and a wide variety of colleagues.

• Good people skills to facilitate effective teamwork and collaborative working.

• Dedication to communicating clearly and succinctly both verbally and in writing with impact.

• Ability to problem solve and analyse key themes using data from a wide range of sources and identify possible solutions and impacts on the business.

• Confidence with Microsoft tools including Excel and PowerPoint.

It would be great if you had

• Broad awareness of ESG management good practice (including Climate Change, Labour & Human Rights, Ethics and Sustainable Procurement) or experience of sourcing and supplier management activities and processes.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in/all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!