Overview
Role: Sustainability Specialist
Career Step Level: Step level 2.0
Location: Blyth, Worksop
Salary: £35,000
Hours: This is a full-time, Monday to Friday position, on-site. The role follows standard office hours and regular on-site presence (5 days per week) is required to support day-to-day operations and collaboration with our teams.
Responsibilities
- Work with a wide range of teams across the business in all locations on initiatives to further improve our impact, taking a proactive approach to following up on issues.
- Collect, validate, and manage sustainability-related data used for the calculation of our carbon footprint, energy consumption, waste, water usage and packaging metrics.
- Support tracking our carbon and environmental targets by identifying trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Assist in the preparation of regular sustainability and ESG reports and dashboards for both internal communication of sustainability performance and regulatory reporting.
- Be a key point person for sustainability across our business, providing sustainability knowledge and support on cross-functional initiatives across our manufacturing sites.
- Become a Specialist in utilising our carbon accounting and ESG data platform, for data collection, reporting and scenario modelling of carbon and other environmental data to predict future impact and define reduction strategies and goals.
- Ensure smooth data management by regularly maintaining automated feeds and uploading manual carbon and environmental data to our carbon accounting and ESG platform, working with internal teams to resolve any issues.
A bit about you
- You will have a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Sustainability or a related field, or have gained relevant experience within this field.
- Experience in data work, with an understanding of sustainability metrics and carbon accounting at both a business activity and product carbon footprint level, is beneficial.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
- Capability to navigate complex stakeholders, build relationships, and problem-solve with others.
- Ability to learn new tools, systems, and subject matter quickly.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, customer-facing business environment.
- Good planning, organisation and prioritisation skills to juggle multiple demands on time.
- Flexibility around travelling and working out of different locations across the UK and Europe.
- Knowledge of B-Corp is nice to have.
Technical Tools
- Strong proficiency in Google or Microsoft Suite.
- Proficiency in Data visualisation tools (such as Looker).
- Sweep or other carbon data platforms - nice to have.
- SQL - nice to have.
About Butternut
Butternut Box delivers healthy meals for dogs and their humans. Our teams collaborate across locations, with recent expansion to broader operations in Europe.
What’s In It For You
- Holiday entitlement of 33 days per year, with additional days based on service (up to 5 days).
- Pre-booked wellbeing days and other wellbeing support programs.
- Enrollment into our Employee Assistance Program offering free financial planning, counselling, mental health support and more.
- Annual budget for personal learning and development.
- Enhanced parental leave.
- Discounted private medical insurance with AXA Healthcare.
- Discounted gym membership.
- Subsidised food options and other on-site perks.
- Employee discount on Butternut Box products.
- Free parking and electric car charging facilities.
- Team socials and events, including office dogs.
Interview Process
- Application review
- Initial call (30 minutes): Introductory chat with our Talent Partner.
- Technical interview (1 hour): Remote interview to discuss skills and experience.
- In-person values interview (1 hour): In-office interview with key stakeholders to discuss competencies and cultural fit.
Notes
- There is no closing date for this role, but high application volume is expected.
- We aim to respond to all applicants. Our recruitment team is small, so please bear with us.
- Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity and inclusion.
- We are not seeking external agency support for this role.
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