The global consumer industry experienced a 20% rise in new job postings related to environmental sustainability in Q1 2024 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to 0.92% decrease versus Q1 2023. GlobalData’s Consumer: Hiring Trends & Signals Q1 2024 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the consumer industry, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs. Buy the report here.
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Notably, Sales and Related Occupations jobs accounted for a 21% share of the global consumer industry’s environmental sustainability-related total new job postings in Q1 2024, up 15% over the prior quarter.
Sales and Related Occupations drive environmental sustainability-related hiring activity
Sales and Related Occupations, with a share of 21%, emerged as the top environmental sustainability-related job roles within the consumer industry in Q1 2024, with new job postings rising by 15% quarter-on-quarter. Management Occupations came in second with a share of 13% in Q1 2024, with new job postings rising by 18% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent environmental sustainability roles include Personal Care and Service Occupations with a 10% share in Q1 2024, Production Occupations with a 5% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in consumer industry accounted for 47% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q1 2024 were Petco Health and Wellness, Sigma Alimentos, Colgate-Palmolive, Nestle, and Pandora. Together they accounted for a combined share of 47% of all environmental sustainability-related new jobs in the consumer industry.
Petco Health and Wellness posted 7,793 environmental sustainability-related new jobs in Q1 2024, Sigma Alimentos 975 jobs, Colgate-Palmolive 822 jobs, Nestle 809 jobs, and Pandora 748 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 70.49% share of total new job postings, Q1 2024
The largest share of environmental sustainability-related new job postings in the consumer industry in Q1 2024 was in the US with 70.49% followed by the UK (3.53%) and India (3.51%). The share represented by the US was three percentage points higher than the 67.73% share it accounted for in Q4 2023.
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