Job Title: ESG Data Strategy & Insights Lead - Supply Chain Sustainability
Location: Bristol, Halifax, Edinburgh or Birmingham
SALARY: £57,546- £63,940
Hours: Full time -12 month Fixed Term Contract
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office. Ad hoc travel to other core hubs across the UK for team events will also be required. In addition, travel may be involved with this role to Supplier premises or conferences, with potentially a few nights away from home every quarter.
About us
At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose - to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities.
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 crucial 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 ideas 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 designing and delivering a data strategy. Primarily focusing on supply chains, you’ll be working to identify how we can use the data we have to better inform future plans, mapping existing data gaps and finding ways to close those gaps, as well as reviewing and updating the tooling approach. Anticipate future trends and developments, and engage in hands-on tasks like research, data analysis, information visualization, and report creation.
Collaborate with Group Sourcing & Supplier Management Data team, Chief Data Office and key team members to ensure alignment of strategy with that of the wider group, and improve collaboration across existing ESG data programmes and data activity.
Strategic thinking: able to see the bigger picture and understand the current challenges and opportunities within the context of UK and global regulation and priorities and focus areas for Lloyds Banking Group, converting this into an effective data strategy and roadmap. Experience of building data strategy or roadmaps previously is critical for this role.
Data Analysis: Adept at manipulating data sets to help set strategy, advise decision-making, deliver process improvements and handle performance. Strong proficiency using tools such as Excel and Power BI and able to demonstrate experience working to engineer and analyse large datasets using a variety of tools and systems.
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 is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We're disability confident. So, if you would like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform crucial job functions
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.