The global retail industry experienced a 4% drop in new job postings related to environmental sustainability in Q3 2022 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s whitepaper on Environmental Sustainability in Retail – Hiring Activity in Q3 2022. This compares to a 200% increase versus Q3 2021.
Notably, Butchers and Other Meat, Poultry, and Fish Processing Workers jobs accounted for a 10% share of the global retail industry’s environmental sustainability-related total new job postings in Q3 2022, down 12% over the prior quarter.
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Butchers and Other Meat, Poultry, and Fish Processing Workers, with a share of 10%, emerged as the top environmental sustainability-related job roles within the retail industry in Q3 2022, with new job postings drop by 12% quarter-on-quarter. Bakers came in second with a share of 9% in Q3 2022, with new job postings rise by 12% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent environmental sustainability roles include Laborers and Material Movers with a 7% share in Q3 2022, Retail Salespersons with a 4% share of new job postings.
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q3 2022 were Southeastern Grocers Inc, Walmart, Amazon.com and Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack of California. Together they accounted for a combined share of 8% of all environmental sustainability-related active jobs in the retail industry.
Southeastern Grocers Inc posted 3,697 jobs in Q3 2022 and registered a rise of 15% over the previous quarter, followed by Walmart with 2,148 jobs and a 35% drop. Amazon.com with 489 jobs and Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack of California with 480 jobs, recorded a 36% decline and a 72% increase, respectively, while Town Pump recorded a 28% increase with 468 job postings during Q3 2022.
The largest share of environmental sustainability-related new job postings in the retail industry in Q3 2022 was in the US with 87% followed by the UK (4%) and India (2%). The share represented by the US was 0.79 percentage points lower than the 88% share it accounted for in Q2 2022.
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