Role: ESG Data Lead (Environment, Social, Governance)

Location: London, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, Shoreham / Hybrid

Role ID: 2024-2235

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

At Ricardo, our vision is to foster a safe and sustainable world. We are a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consultancy dedicated to helping our clients address complex challenges and work towards a sustainable future.

As an ESG Data Lead, you will play a pivotal role in advancing our vision. The role is a critical part of Ricardo’s ESG/ GHG external reporting and a lead energizing role in data acquisition to help achieve our Targets. It requires drive, motivation, and a degree of persistence to achieve regulated data publication. A ESG data and project management combination to achieve accurate and timely results.

This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of the central group team, engaging with all areas of the business globally across the BU’s. A chance to expand your knowledge and help drive positive impacts for the future growth of the company.

The Successful Candidates main responsibilities will be:

• Drive collection of inputs to allow Ricardo to achieve Reasonable Assurance across Scope 1, 2 & 3 reporting internally and externally.
• Drive collection of non GHG (greenhouse gas) ESG related data.
• Position and operate the ESG Transformation Workstream to lead actions emerging.
• Strategically drive action plans to meet sustainability and RBC set targets.
• Lead FigBytes (software platform) data aggregation from the hub managers and finance to ensure a complete set of financial and non-financial data are available. Responsible for accuracy and completeness of data set.
• Provide monthly dashboards and action plans with each BU and Group – to be used as the basis for carbon reduction glidepath planning.
• Interface with CE&ES business unit technical specialists (via a retention budget) to remain current on legislative changes – current reporting period and forthcoming, calculation methodologies and updates to Emissions Factors.
• Interface and Management of external auditor to achieve the standard required to reach Reasonable Assurance.

Tasks will include:

• Develop familiarity with FigBytes data collection, input, report configuration and acting as a trainer for users.
• Drive monthly/quarterly data providers to ensure complete data sets are achieved using gap analysis features across all inputs – financial, non–financial and locations required to report.
• Ensure emissions factors and calculation methodology are correct for the data together with reporting units and currency.
• Check monthly dashboards are complete, correct and distributed to BU’s and Group.
• Manage interface with LRQA (Auditor) for checking and assessment of our data.
• Contribute sections to the annual report – especially related to data reporting – water, waste, utilities, and the attestation table section.
• Lead the bi-weekly ESG workstream sessions to drive change, improvement, and review progress against the workstream activities – emission and waste reduction, utilities reductions, social and charitable data capture.
• Lead ISO 500001 actions and audit readiness.
• Contribute data and reports into the monthly ESG Forum and relevant sections of the bi-annual RBC Board packs.
• Work with procurement function and ESG Sustainable Procurement team to drive Scope 3 Cat 1 reductions and supplier data reporting enhancements are enacted.
• Lead the annual Commuting Survey to populate corporate GHG data.

The Successful candidate will need to have the following skills and behaviours:    

• Analytical proficiency: Excellent numerical and analytical skills with the ability to assess ESG data and metrics, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities.  
• Effective communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear annual reports.
• Project management: Proficiency including the ability to manage, coordinate, and prioritise activities to ensure the timely and budget-conscious delivery of deliverables.
• Regulatory awareness: Staying current with evolving global sustainability and ESG regulations, disclosure requirements and industry best practices. Strong knowledge and applicability of reporting requirements at the UK and EU levels are essential.
• Adaptability: Ability to adapt to evolving ESG landscapes and industry-specific challenges while maintaining a collaborative mindset to work effectively with a team of sustainability experts.
• Collaborative team member: providing leadership and expertise in data reporting while maintaining a collaborative mindset to work effectively with a team of sustainability experts.
• Flexibility: A flexible approach, with the ability to support colleagues and juggle various tasks in a fast-paced operational environment.       

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Lead stakeholder engagement exercises including conducting interviews, surveys, and workshops to gather valuable input for materiality assessments.
• Oversee the analysis of ESG data and metrics, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities relevant to each client.
• Contribute to sustainability and annual reports that provide clear insights and adhere to ESG reporting standards.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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