Climate data and analytics manager F/M/X in Slough

As part of its sustainability journey, Royal Canin is working relentlessly towards improving our impact on pets, planet and people, by making our activities more sustainable and socially responsible. Our key priority in this journey is to reduce carbon emissions and contribute to Mars Incorporated's commitment to reach Net Zero by 2050.

This role ensures the link between the delivery of our sustainability objectives, with a strong focus on climate, and our visibility of performance results, strengthening business decision-making, ensuring that sustainability data and information are actionable for business leaders, and enabling lower-footprint innovation through much improved systems and tools.

Role responsibilities include:

• Working with relevant Royal Canin’s functional teams and Petcare/Mars Central experts as climate data lead, to pilot and then deploy successful accounting programs, systems and tools.

What are we looking for?

• Degree in agronomy, finance or a sustainability related topic
• 5-8 years experience in a quantitative data analysis field or discipline, with a focus on environmental sustainability, climate, and/or sustainable sourcing
• Demonstrated experience evaluating and/or authoring LCAs, with a focus on agricultural or industrial products
• Working understanding of LCA/climate accounting standards and practices
• Experience across data collection and reporting systems including audit requirements and processes
• Ability to facilitate data driven discussions to influence business strategy and growth
• Demonstrated creativity in problem solving and the ability to take an idea through to implementation
• Ability to translate key aspects of Life Cycle Assessment to various non-sustainability audiences, with patience and creativity
• Ability to engage with internal expert Sustainability groups
• Ability to work flexibly with global teams across different time zones

Key responsibilities include:

• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) lead for Royal Canin: Responsible for the development of supplier and project specific impact factors, especially for raw materials, together with other LCA leads within Mars Inc. Responsible for translating future or existing LCA standard into the business accounting rules, and contribute to set accounting rules for internal Mars Inc. use when standards do not exist yet; Identifying data gaps or issues, escalation for support when needed, working together with Petcare and Mars experts to address them; Support teams in assessing the potential reduction during the development of carbon reduction initiatives; Contribute to the development and deployment of methodological changes within Mars Inc.
• Reporting and glidepath, supported by analytics and tools: Responsible for tracking Royal Canin’s carbon performance for different geographical scales, at corporate and product levels; manage the validation and/or external assurance of data; generate performance reports to enable robust understanding of results internally and externally; Serves as carbon and climate analytics subject-matter expert in Royal Canin, providing analytics support to functional and brand teams to enable the delivery of climate goals, based on a deep understanding of carbon accounting, carbon intensity, allocation of benefits, and other critical climate accounting considerations. Serves as climate subject-matter expert for the digital transformation aiming at providing tools essential to Royal Canin and Petcare’s ability to deliver its sustainability goals over time, helping inform and shape strategic choices and business decisions. Responsibility for tracking Royal Canin’s sustainability performance on a quarterly basis.
• Lead the carbon neutrality certification: Responsible for the assessment of the performance of the products in the scope of the certification, working in close collaboration with other functional teams; Further develop and update the methodological report on an annual basis; Further develop and update the certification report on an annual basis, including connecting with the relevant experts to get an update of the climate strategy; Manage the LCA verification and certification process. Responsible for guaranteeing the compliance of the certification with existing laws.
• Lead Farm projects accounting for Royal Canin: Responsible for the data collection of farm projects set up at Royal Canin scope. Ensuring that Mars, Inc. accounting methodology is consistent, understood and respected. Responsible to deliver accurate & up to date data for CAP & Annual climate reporting.
• Increasing Access & Capability: Responsible for ensuring that relevant teams across functions have access to key Sustainability data and have the right capability and awareness in order to access it, utilize it to make business decisions, and to build into their existing teams stronger capabilities over time.