Procurement ESG Specialist

The Role

🌍 Join a Global Force for Positive Change – Become Our Next Procurement ESG Specialist!

At Imperial Brands, we’re not just a global FMCG business powered by 25,000 passionate people—we’re a company on a mission. Our purpose is clear: to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure. This purpose drives everything we do, especially when it comes to our Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) commitments.

We’re leading the way in harm reduction by offering adult smokers better alternatives, and we’ve set our sights high—with a bold ambition to become a Net Zero company by 2040. Our ESG strategy spans the entire lifecycle of our products, focusing on healthier futures, a positive contribution to society, and a safe, inclusive workplace.

Now, we’re looking for a Procurement ESG Specialist to join our dynamic team in Warsaw. This is your chance to be part of a transformational journey within our Global Supply Chain function—helping to embed sustainability into every corner of our procurement practices and drive real impact across the business.

If you're passionate about sustainability, data-driven, and ready to help shape the future of responsible sourcing on a global scale—we want to hear from you.

Principle Accountabilities

• Analyse supplier and ESG data to understand trends and forecasts, create hypothesis and questions to understand where there may be underperformance and opportunities
• Maintain the GHG emissions database for logistics
• Work closely with relevant suppliers and the relevant category teams to deliver engagement programs centred around agreed ESG priorities and targets
• Support the definition and implementation of targets, measures, and tracking including relevant 3rd party tools, services and data sources
• Identify data and reporting requirements and feed these into the technology roadmap for Procurement
• Management of Sustainable Tobacco Programme (STP) data (incl. co-ordinating data collection, data

Skills and Experience Required

• Experience in delivering analytics solutions and tools, including sustainability data modelling with a focus on scope 3 related emissions, and a good understanding of data analysis techniques
• Experience with 3rd party risk assessments tool such as SEDEX or Ecovadis and relevant audit methodologies
• Strong numerical and data analysis skills, including analytics of large data sets, with the ability to assess scope 3 emissions and perform cross-comparisons across datasets
• Solid understanding of ESG principles, including the GHG Protocol and SBTi targets, with practical knowledge of tracking and reducing emissions in supply chain and capital investment activities (experience in ESG and emissions tracking software will be an asset)
• Awareness of best practices in achieving Supply Chain Net Zero objectives
• Strong communication and presentation skills, both written and oral, with the ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for a broad audience

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.