Sustainability Research & Insights Specialist - Environmental Data
Job Description
Sustainability Research & Insights Specialist - Environmental Data
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 26th March 2026
About Us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating!
About The Function
Our Procurement team are innovators, always seeking new ways to help our business, people and much-loved brands thrive. We’re dedicated to maximizing the £12 billion+ we spend every year, building brands of premium quality, while creating sustainable value and growth. Together, we’re shaping the services, partnerships and innovations that meet our future needs.
Our procurement team delivers outstanding end-to-end value across our supply chain and offers innovative supplier solutions. Together, we’re driving our 'Society 2030: Spirit of Progress' plan across suppliers and agency partners to create a more sustainable world. Wherever you choose to carve your career, we’ll support and encourage you in our inclusive culture.
About The Role
Grain to Glass Sustainability is a core part of Diageo’s end-to-end strategy and is enabled by leading digital, data and insights capabilities. It focuses on reducing the environmental impact of our value chain and supporting delivery of Diageo’s 2030 Sustainability targets through data-driven insights and reporting across our connected supply chain.
As a Sustainability Research & Insights Specialist - Environmental Data, you will play a key role in supporting the Global Procurement and Grain to Glass teams by developing research, insights and analytics that inform sustainability strategy and decision-making. Working closely with sustainability leads across the business, you will provide carbon modelling, data baselining, market insights and global benchmarking to support more sustainable supply chain choices.
This role will also help build and manage a strong analytics and data repository to support Diageo’s sustainability strategy and long-term climate action ambitions.
In This Role You Will
About You
We’re looking for someone who is curious, analytical and passionate about sustainability, with the ability to turn complex data into meaningful insights that support better environmental decisions across the business.
To Thrive In This Role, You Will Bring
Working with Us
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, attitudes, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you collect this information when you submit your application.
Worker Type
Regular
Primary Location:
Budapest
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date
2026-03-12
Sustainability Research & Insights Specialist - Environmental Data
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 26th March 2026
About Us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating!
About The Function
Our Procurement team are innovators, always seeking new ways to help our business, people and much-loved brands thrive. We’re dedicated to maximizing the £12 billion+ we spend every year, building brands of premium quality, while creating sustainable value and growth. Together, we’re shaping the services, partnerships and innovations that meet our future needs.
Our procurement team delivers outstanding end-to-end value across our supply chain and offers innovative supplier solutions. Together, we’re driving our 'Society 2030: Spirit of Progress' plan across suppliers and agency partners to create a more sustainable world. Wherever you choose to carve your career, we’ll support and encourage you in our inclusive culture.
About The Role
Grain to Glass Sustainability is a core part of Diageo’s end-to-end strategy and is enabled by leading digital, data and insights capabilities. It focuses on reducing the environmental impact of our value chain and supporting delivery of Diageo’s 2030 Sustainability targets through data-driven insights and reporting across our connected supply chain.
As a Sustainability Research & Insights Specialist - Environmental Data, you will play a key role in supporting the Global Procurement and Grain to Glass teams by developing research, insights and analytics that inform sustainability strategy and decision-making. Working closely with sustainability leads across the business, you will provide carbon modelling, data baselining, market insights and global benchmarking to support more sustainable supply chain choices.
This role will also help build and manage a strong analytics and data repository to support Diageo’s sustainability strategy and long-term climate action ambitions.
In This Role You Will
- Support strategy and roadmap development across key Climate Action pillars including carbon, regenerative agriculture, water stewardship, zero waste to landfill and circular packaging
- Model and report sustainability metrics across the Diageo group, including Scope 3 carbon emissions and sustainable packaging KPIs
- Partner with global procurement teams (packaging, raw materials, manufacturing services, logistics, indirects and marketing) to understand sustainability data requirements and challenges
- Provide data-driven insights to help procurement teams reduce carbon footprint and support strategy deployment
- Conduct research, benchmarking and market analysis to understand emerging sustainability trends and peer activity
- Work with Digital & Technology teams to improve sustainability data, systems and reporting capabilities
- Build business cases, sustainability heatmaps and scenario modelling to support strategic decision-making
- Support funding and innovation opportunities across areas such as regenerative agriculture, carbon reduction, water efficiency and circular packaging
About You
We’re looking for someone who is curious, analytical and passionate about sustainability, with the ability to turn complex data into meaningful insights that support better environmental decisions across the business.
To Thrive In This Role, You Will Bring
- A university degree in a quantitative (STEM) discipline or an environment/sustainability-focused field
- Experience ideally within sustainability reporting or environmental data analysis
- An understanding of sustainability practices within FMCG or similarly complex global organisations
- Strong data modelling and data cleansing skills, with experience working across multiple and varied data sources
- The ability to collaborate effectively with a range of stakeholders such as procurement, finance, manufacturing, commercial or marketing teams
- Experience leading projects or programmes, demonstrating initiative and the ability to drive work forward
- A curious attitude with strong analytical thinking and attention to detail
- Advanced Excel
- Power BI (data modelling and visualisation)
- Python
- SAP
Working with Us
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, attitudes, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you collect this information when you submit your application.
Worker Type
Regular
Primary Location:
Budapest
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date
2026-03-12