The B Corp Movement

B Lab UK is the home of the B Corp movement, a community of over 2,000 UK businesses who meet high standards of social and environmental performance, legal accountability, and transparency. Some B Corps you might have heard of include Innocent Drinks, Patagonia, Tony’s Chocolonely, Finisterre, Jude’s Ice Cream and WeTransfer. B Lab UK’s purpose is to redefine success in business through building a community of engaged businesses, raising awareness of the B Corp Movement and influencing policy change in the UK economy.

Job purpose 

B Lab UK is a data rich organisation, committed to putting data at the heart of our work - across storytelling, research, decision making and evaluation, and beyond.

We want to continually improve how we use data to inform our day-to-day decisions, inform our organisation-wide strategy, and evaluate our long-term impact.

This role will be accountable for shaping and continually improving how we use data within B Lab UK: building tools, processes, policy, skills and behaviours across the organisation to ensure we are putting data at the heart of our work to allow us to better achieve our mission.

Responsibilities will include:

• Ensure data and analytics drive knowledge, insights and context for the organisation

• Drive the continuous improvement and quality B Lab UK’s insight generation tools, ensuring the organisation is enabled to draw insight from internally and externally generated data

• Strengthen our approach to tracking, collecting, and utilising data, focusing on improving analytical efficiency and accuracy, and data quality and integrity.

• Working collaboratively with teams across B Lab UK, design, build and maintain comprehensive reports, dashboards and visualisations, providing actionable insights and metrics for the organisation.

• Develop tools and methodologies for measuring, evaluating and reporting impact of B Corps and B Lab UK

• Support the development of policies and procedures around data management, and maintain data security.

• Upskill the wider B Lab UK team in gathering, handling and analysing data

• Work collaboratively with our wider data, research and insight ‘cluster’ across B Lab Europe and B Lab Global to ensure our work is globally aligned and prioritised

Skills and Experience 

Essential

• Practical Experience and knowledge of conducting data analysis and visualising data for critical business decision-making and processes

• Experience processing, structuring and improving data, and working with a range of digital systems to do this

• Comfortable working with stakeholders from non-analytical backgrounds, gathering requirements, and translating them into structured analytical questions and approaches

• Highly data literate with a good working knowledge of data types, the use of basic descriptive statistics (e.g. mean, standard deviation), and how to use data visualisation tools and techniques effectively to communicate insight

• The ability to work collaboratively across teams, and build strong relationships with a diverse range of internal stakeholders

• Working knowledge of GDPR and experience of adhering to it

Desirable

• Experience working with Tableau analytics and data visualisation

• Experience working with Salesforce reporting and dashboards

• Experience defining data processes and standard operating procedures

• Knowledge of additional statistical methods (e.g. cluster analysis, different types of regressions, factor analysis, predictive modelling)

• Knowledge of querying databases (Salesforce, Postgresql, etc.)

• Knowledge of other tools / programming languages (e.g. Python)

• Knowledge of sustainability standards and certifications

• Understanding of monitoring and evaluation approaches and the role of metrics and performance indicators in assessing performance

Person specific:

• Passionate about sustainability, and specifically about the role that business can play in creating the future that benefits all people and the planet

• Comfortable working in a dynamic environment - therefore happy with:

  • A changeable, sometimes uncertain, and fast-paced environment

  • Variety - with no two days being the same

  • A growth mindset and a willingness to try new things and learn from mistakes

• Proactive, organised, flexible and self-motivated. Rolling up your sleeves and getting things done

• Collaborative with a team mentality

• Committed to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion

• Eligible to work in the UK (we will not be able to provide visa sponsorship)

Job Descriptions are an outline of a role, and are not an exhaustive list of duties.  This job description should be seen as enabling rather than restrictive and will be subject to regular review.  

What we give you

• Purpose -driven work enabling B Lab UK’s mission of redefining the role of business as a force for good

• Hybrid and flexible working, we have a high trust environment and are advocates for right place working

• Hybrid working

• Flexible working hours (based around core working hours)

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (pro rata for part-time staff)

• 1 additional annual leave day (pro-rata for part-time staff) for each complete annual year of service, up to a maximum of 30 days

• Our office is closed between Christmas and New Year, no need to take extra holiday!

• Private Medical and Dental cover

• £200 per annum tax free Annual Wellbeing allowance and Employee Assistance Programme

• 2 paid volunteer days per year

• Enhanced Parental Leave and family-friendly policies, including carers leave

• Learning and Development opportunities

• Enhanced Pension and Life Assurance

• Cycle to Work Scheme

• Income Protection policy

• Working in a flexible office workspace

How to apply:

All applications must be made through Be Applied.

If we can offer accommodations for you in the recruitment process, please contact hiring@bcorporation.uk. 

We use a blind recruitment process, to avoid biased screening, where the initial selection is based on answers to predefined questions and an anonymised CV review which are scored by a panel against predefined criteria for the role.

N.B. the anonomysed scoring panel does not see the applicant's CVs or any other information about them (until interview stage). Please ensure your answers to the questions are specific and give real examples of what you have done to demonstrate your experience and skills that are required for the role.

All candidates will be contacted after the initial screening process. The short-listing process will consist of at least 2 panel interviews. Candidates may be asked to prepare and present a task. Interviews will likely to be remote, and one conversational and one in-person interview.

B Lab believes an equitable and inclusive work environment and a diverse, empowered team are key to achieving our mission. We’re not looking for candidates who are “culture fits.” We’re looking for candidates who can expand our culture and challenge business as usual. We strive to foster an environment where all staff can bring themselves to work, and we strive to provide all candidates with an equitable and accessible recruitment process.