Data Consultant (US)

Valpak has created a friendly and supportive working environment that enables our team to perform to the best of their abilities, with flexible hours, hybrid working options, access to training and opportunities to get involved in various groups to nurture key interests.

With social value at the heart of our business ethos, employees can take a day on us to volunteer for an organisation of their choice, and our Charity Committee organises fundraising events for the employee nominated charity of the year.

Valpak endorses wellbeing and healthy lifestyles, offering subsidised gym membership, optional healthy living seminars and social events, encouraging cross team integration. Plus, the “After Work” social group organises regular gatherings – an opportunity to get to know friendly faces.

Our team is passionate, friendly, approachable, and dedicated to the business mission – to inspire businesses to do all they can to reduce their environmental impact. If you have an interest in sustainability and like the sound of all Valpak offers, we would love to hear from you!

Requirements

The EPR Data Consultant will work alongside our Account Management colleagues at RLG, who act as the customer facing touchpoint, to ensure all international data submissions are submitted to a high standard. The successful candidate will be responsible for manipulating and collating final data submissions under a variety of different regulations, including but not limited to, waste packaging, PCR reporting and Plastics Registry reporting. With support from within the team both at Valpak and RLG, they will quickly develop a good knowledge of the relevant environmental waste compliance regulations, ensuring that all international data obligations are met for accounts.

The candidate will work closely with the RLG counterpart and will maintain a good knowledge of the relevant account in order to ensure data submitted to the relevant authorities complies with legal requirements and regulations. They will also work together to ensure that any data related information is fed back to the account manager to pass on to the customer, in order to ensure the customer is receiving a high level of service overall.

The ideal candidate will be confident working in both a busy team environment and on their own initiative. As a newly developed team, this will be an exciting opportunity to develop and contribute towards a rapidly growing Valpak service.

Please note that due to the focus on US regulations this role may require some meetings outside of standard working hours.

Key Accountabilities

• Management Of Data For Allocated Accounts
• Work alongside the RLG customer facing account manager to ensure that international compliance data is accurate and submitted on time
• Ensure that all required environmental data (including but not limited to weights information) is collated appropriately
• Ensure data received from customer contains necessary information and where more information is needed this is raised to the counterpart efficiently.
• Work with various internal teams in order to fulfil the customer contract such as the Supplier Mailing team, Insights Platform team, EPIC team etc.

Data Cleansing And Maintenance

• Become an expert in utilising in-house software system (EPIC) which inputs and analyses weights information
• Manipulate data into relevant format for each country/regulation
• Use various tools to consistently check and improve on the accuracy of international data
• Use data skills to provide useful information for accounts such as swings analysis and trends

Maintain a strong knowledge of the international environmental regulations across a variety of countries

• Work alongside the RLG Compliance team to understand and maintain a strong knowledge of data requirements and scoping in relevant countries
• Develop and maintain a good knowledge of activities and obligations for relevant accounts
• Perform data checks for all accounts, to ensure all submissions are as accurate as possible and consistently improved

Contribute to consistently improving and innovating the International Data Service

• Proactively seek out opportunities to make efficiencies and further develop the service
• Inspect and advance current procedures
• Optimise data automation practices

Skills

• Advanced IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel (VBA or other coding knowledge desirable)
• Ability to quickly take on large quantities of technical information
• Excellent planning, scheduling and organization skills
• A customer focused approach
• Collaborative working style
• Solution orientated problem solving ability
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• A knowledge of analysing and manipulating large volumes of data is desirable
• An interest in environmental issues is desirable

Qualifications

• Educated to Degree level

Benefits

Dual Location / Hybrid worker Status

• Participation in our annual Incentive Plan (VIP) - up to 10% bonus
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Option to buy and sell up to 9 days annual leave
• Volunteering day
• Birthday off
• Access to voluntary benefits including private medical insurance, cycle to work scheme, subsidised gym membership
• Automatic inclusion in Life Assurance, Critical Illness and Disability Income protection schemes
• Pension scheme up to 8% employer contribution
• Access to reward & discount platform
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Free access to the LinkedIn Learning library of CPD courses

Valpak is proud to be a values-driven organisation, committed to creating an inclusive, collaborative, and fair workplace. As part of this commitment, we are accredited with the Real Living Wage, ensuring all our colleagues are paid fairly for their work. We also hold certifications in Thrive at Work, the Race at Work Charter, and the Disability Confident Commitment—demonstrating our dedication to colleague wellbeing, equality, and accessibility for all. These recognitions reflect our ongoing efforts to foster a workplace where everyone can thrive and feel valued.

We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date of our job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of high-quality applications from which to make a shortlist. We recommend that you apply for our roles as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.