Climate Change Manager

Manchester city centre, in this role you’ll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between
home, coming into our Manchester office and occasionally visiting our suppliers (find out more
about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

We’re looking for a Climate Change Manager to join our Ethics, Sustainability and Policy team.
You’ll be making sure we have the right data systems in place to understand and help to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions across our entire supply chain. We’ll look to you to make sure we are
getting the correct information about our supply chain, and to help support our internal teams
to deliver our sustainability promises. 

This role is a great opportunity to become an expert in food and product carbon footprints and
take ownership of an important part of our strategy. In this role you’ll directly impact and
help us reach our ambition to halve food system emissions by 2030.

What you’ll do

• Help us build a best-in-retail approach to tracking and reducing food system emissions 
• Become a trusted expert on Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions for Co-op and our international
  food supply chain 
• Understand and improve our product carbon footprinting tools 
• Support and lead improvements in producing our annual Scope 3 greenhouse gas inventory 
• Equip teams across our business with the data insight and tools they need to help meet our
  sustainability targets
• Clearly articulate our priorities, targets, and climate action to a variety of internal and
  external audiences 
• Work with experts across our business to build relationships, collect insight and support
  action to reduce emissions
• Meet and visit suppliers online and in person to understand and support our work to drive
  and evidence Scope 3 greenhouse gas reduction 
• Support our wider team with projects and campaigns on varied Ethics and Sustainability
  topics 

This role would suit people who have

• Strong technical ability, with practical experience of product carbon footprinting, supply
  chain greenhouse gas emissions, and related challenges
• Up-to-date knowledge of greenhouse gas accounting methodologies, climate policy, standards,
  and food business priorities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 
• Strong data analysis and manipulation skills 
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly explain technical topics to
  non-technical audiences 
• The ability to build effective working relationships with both internal and external
  partners 
• A passion for problem solving 

Why Co-op? 

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits
package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other
discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays 
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest
co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our
Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business
helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities. 

Building a diverse environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a
disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your
needs. We’re also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we’ll always offer an
interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria
for a job.

We’ll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you
apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if
you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

Please note that we may close applications for this role early. 

As part of your application, you’ll need to complete an online assessment. This
assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes.