Job Title
ESG Analyst
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours Per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits.
Category
Environmental Health (HEA)
Closing Date
26 February 2025
"Everything about Asda”
We are a values-led organisation. As such we, encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.
Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.
We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.
“Everything you'll love.”
- Hybrid and flexible working – everyone is looking for that work/life balance and Asda have it on point. Flexible working meaning you work where it works to meet both your needs and the business needs.
- Discretionary bonus – Rewarding you for your hard work and efforts.
- Company Pension Scheme matched to a limit – Looking forward to the future.
- Minimum 24 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays – Making sure you take time for yourself and switch off.
- 4 weekly pay – which means you get an extra payday a year.
- Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions – Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us.
- Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year – really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year.
- Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business.
- Free onsite parking – you can also use it outside working hours.
Plus, much more!
“Find your role”
Asda’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) programme is a key part of our growth strategy, aiming to offer accessible and affordable solutions for the growing number of customers who want to shop in a healthier and more sustainable way, and developing a more efficient and resilient value chain.
As part of our strategy, Asda is dedicated to reducing packaging and waste, meeting customer needs for healthy and sustainable choices, and minimizing our carbon footprint. To support this mission, we are seeking a passionate ESG Data Analyst to join our team. This individual will play a crucial role in driving positive change by building, maintaining, and analyzing data that is essential for achieving business targets, enhancing our ESG strategy, improving processes, and ensuring accurate reporting.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Developing, maintaining, and continuously improving ESG data systems on health & nutrition, packaging, waste management, and carbon.
- Supporting the development and delivery of Asda’s healthy and sustainable choices strategy by building relevant datasets, analysing key trends, and surfacing insights to inform the ESG strategy.
- Making evidence-based recommendations from complex analyses to identify market opportunities, support proposition development, and build business cases.
- Delivering compelling communication and data visualization to engage stakeholders across the business at all levels.
- Updating all internal ESG KPIs and supporting engagement with business units.
- Managing data collection, analysis, and report preparation for external reporting requirements on carbon, packaging, nutrition, and waste management.
- Engaging with colleagues and key stakeholders to embed sustainability into Asda’s business processes and culture.
- Supporting business readiness for compliance with various ESG legislation.
- Supporting the evolution of health and ESG data systems in the context of Asda’s data transformation.
“Let's find out about you.”
- Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree in a numerate discipline, with a passion for complex numerical challenges
- Proven experience in data and analysis; preferably as a data analyst/ strategy analyst/ market analyst/ commercial analyst; Academicians are welcome to apply
- Proficiency in SQL and Excel; Experience with data tools such as Databricks, Tableau, Power BI, or similar
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
- Problem-solving skills and experience of working on multifaceted, ambiguous challenges
- Able to work collaboratively with other team members/stakeholders in the business.
- Self-starter who works well independently, as well as across stakeholder groups of all levels across the organisation
- Project management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Desirable:
- Experience of working with health/ ESG data, and/or on development of ESG strategy
- Data visualisation
- Awareness on health and sustainability fundamentals (such as Nutrient Profiling Model, carbon accounting, packaging and waste management)
“Find your everything at Asda” - bringing brighter living within everyone's reach.
We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.
Work Where it Works
Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to chose where you’ll be the most effective. It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including;-
• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves
