ESG Reporting Business Partner

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.

Some of the key qualities we are looking for include;

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Rigour & Review

You’ll have a high level of diligence and attention to detail and support

others to operate in the same way.

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Taking Responsibility

You’ll take ownership, seeking to do the right thing and deliver the

right outcomes.

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Connecting

You’ll be seen as a ‘go to’ person for the areas you support and be a magnet

for ESG reporting & compliance queries.

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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.

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Challenging

You’ll have the courage to speak up when you see things that could be

improved and offer well thought through recommendations.

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Adapting

You’ll be versatile in taking the lead on a range of different tasks and

responsibilities.

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Growth Mindset

You’ll proactively seek to learn new things, to self-improve and to

expand your contribution.

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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.