Overview
Home. There’s no place like it.
And there’s no feeling like helping people create the joy of feeling truly at home. At Dunelm, that’s what we do. We’re the UK's number one choice for homewares because we make home life lovelier for our customers. And the caring and supportive culture we've created makes this a place you'll feel right at home too.
We are the UK's Number One homewares retailer offering c100,000 products building a consumer-focused total retail business that delights customers through our multichannel operation.
Would you like to play a leading role in the sustainability journey of the UK’s biggest homewares brand? It’s an exciting time at Dunelm, as we look to expand our talented Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Reporting team.
In this role you will play a leading part in influencing and initiating change across the business to shape our approach to both reporting and delivering our sustainability, net zero and other ESG strategy. Being part of our Legal & Compliance function and reporting to the Senior Manager for ESG, you’ll partner a broad, cross-functional group of stakeholders. You’ll have plenty of opportunity to apply your existing experience and be well supported to grow new skills and knowledge.
Key qualities we are looking for
- Rigour & Review: You’ll have a high level of diligence and attention to detail and support others to operate in the same way.
- Taking Responsibility: You’ll take ownership, seeking to do the right thing and deliver the right outcomes.
- Connecting: You’ll be seen as a ‘go to’ person for the areas you support and be a magnet for ESG reporting & compliance queries.
- Communicating: You’ll share information and insight that helps others understand our ESG strategy, obligations and performance against ESG targets, to drive action in the business.
- Challenging: You’ll have the courage to speak up when you see things that could be improved and offer well thought through recommendations.
- Adapting: You’ll be versatile in taking the lead on a range of different tasks and responsibilities.
- Growth Mindset: You’ll proactively seek to learn new things, to self‑improve and to expand your contribution.
- Long Term Thinking: You’ll be ambitious about achieving our targets and about driving change across the business to do so.
What you’ll be doing
- The continuous improvement of our Risk Management processes and modelling for climate-related and other sustainability risks.
- Owning and delivering several key outputs required to fulfil our external reporting obligations in areas such as GHG emissions, Product & Packaging Materials Analysis, Energy Consumption.
- The development of scenario models to provide insight and target actions over a range of planning horizons to inform our Transition Planning for GHG reduction.
- The continued development of our GHG emissions reporting capabilities and data management plan, working with the team and other stakeholders to ensure regular, efficient, accurate, actionable and auditable outputs.
- Robustly documenting methods, processes and assumptions associated with all reporting activities, producing highly communicable & auditable outputs.
- Proactively supporting the ESG Reporting team with advancing the ESG agenda across the business through building good quality relationships and providing high quality insights & analyses.
- Support the development of robust, tangible targets and performance measures to help the business track delivery of the activities upon which our ESG commitments depend.
- Supporting the production of Quarterly ESG metrics in line with the evolving needs of the business.
- Supporting with the ongoing refinement of the various meetings, forums and outputs associated with ESG activities to ensure good quality transparent and effective governance is in place.
- Being a positive role model, providing support and encouragement to the Analysts in the team to help build team coherence and aid in their continuous personal development.
What we’ll look for in you
- Experience of working in a large, complex business.
- A highly analytical thought process; both numerical and textual.
- Experience of managing competing priorities across a range of stakeholders and delivering quality results through strong stakeholder focus.
- Able to demonstrate an enthusiastic, proactive approach to building strong stakeholder relationships, whilst being unafraid to challenge the status quo at all levels.
- Experience of using MS Office applications incl. producing high quality presentation content via PowerPoint and completing complex data analysis in Excel.
- Experience of financial planning and analysis including reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
- Proven ability in financial, non-financial or other reporting, with good knowledge of accounting principles and effective controls.
- Experience of applying a range of planning techniques to effectively communicate and deliver short-, medium-, and long-term actions/goals cross-functionally.
- Knowledge of the ESG reporting landscape, particularly UK SRS, Transition Planning, ISSB, TCFD, Carbon Accounting and the GHG Protocol. Dunelm (Soft Furnishings) Ltd - INTERNAL
- Knowledge of Systems Thinking and its effective use in understanding the relationships within complex networks.
- Experience of line management or providing similar support in the effective development and upskilling of others.
- Ability to research and understand complex subjects (eg. financial standards, large scale surveys, regulatory or other consultations) and the views of key stakeholders and use the findings to effectively influence the strategic direction taken.
- Ability to lead others through complexity & ambiguity to uncover meaningful insights & produce actionable recommendations.
- Ability to stand back and see the bigger picture and the impact of the work on the wider business.
- Ability to identify risks and opportunities across a range of horizons and experience of documenting and implementing effective management and mitigations.
