ESG Implementation Manager - 16 month Fixed Term Contract

What’s in it for you

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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 6 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

About the role

This is a fixed term contract for 16 months

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the ESG space. There is an increasing drive to promote transparency and comparability of ESG reporting across organisations to support sustainable investment decisions and progressive agendas in this space. The CSRD implementation manager role will play a crucial part in the delivery of our programme to comply with new regulation, in particular the EU’s ‘Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive’ (CSRD) and to shape and advance our sustainability and people processes and reporting.

This is a project-based role, supporting our Group readiness for new regulation, the role sits within Group Finance but will work very closely with an effective dotted reporting line into the Ethical sourcing team. Other key stakeholders you will work with include Technology, Group Communications, external advisors and potentially commercial category & operational teams.

We have recently completed an exercise to define the CSRD reporting requirements applicable to Tesco, and to understand where we currently have gaps in our ability to comply.

You will be responsible for

• Defining the project plans to close the reporting gaps across ethical sourcing topics for the Group to ensure regulatory compliance. Topics cover our value chain, our communities and ‘circular economy’.
• Prioritising the areas which are most challenging to ensure we have a clear focus with the right priorities, tracking our progress against the plan and updating the relevant governance groups.
• Defining new methodologies to create data and insight where we have a requirement for quantitative disclosures that we do not currently report.
• Creating new data flows in collaboration with data analytics, technology or other reporting experts, this may involve defining and implementing short-term tactical as well as longer-term strategic options to produce reporting.
• Working closely with the Finance Change and technology teams who will use your work as the basis for improving or automating the production of ESG reporting.
• Engage with the control team as well as internal and external assurance providers to ensure the design, documentation and execution of the reporting is effectively robust, clearly documented and ready to receive external assurance.
• Define and draft new policies or amend existing policies with appropriate internal engagement to ensure that we fully address the requirements of the regulations.
• Support embedding any operational changes required to deliver new or amended policies including training and engagement across the business.
• Liaising with internal and external auditors on queries and requests regarding the policies and data points created.

You will need

• Knowledge of Tesco operations and structure
• Knowledge of or interest in Sustainability topics
• Knowledge of reporting and corporate governance and an interest in drafting and implementing policy
• Strong communication skills including policy writing, presentation, influencing and collaboration.
• An ability to work with data, understand what constitutes ‘good data’ and work with technical experts.

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