Sustainability Advisor - Mangere East, New Zealand - COUNTDOWN NZ SUPPORT

COUNTDOWN NZ SUPPORT

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Mangere East, New Zealand

1 week ago

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Jack Simmons

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Description

12 month fixed term opportunity

Key role in driving the achievement of Woolworths NZ 2025 Sustainability Plan Create a positive impact for 21,000 team members, millions of customers and communities right across the country

**Ready to make an impact?
Countdown is New Zealand's largest supermarket brand and digital retailer, serving more than 3.5 million customers every week. Our purpose is to make Kiwis' lives a little better every day. This purpose is underpinned by our 2025 Sustainability Plan, which includes 14 ambitious goals and more than 40 commitments.

By joining Countdown, you will be part of a fantastic sustainability team, while also joining a community of more than 40 exceptional sustainability practitioners within the wider Woolworths Group.

You will be able to accelerate your professional growth through exposure to a varied and stimulating scope of sustainability topics.

Our 2025 Sustainability Plan is endorsed at an Executive level and you will partner with diverse and supportive colleagues from across Countdown to achieve our goals, from Own Brand product developers to refrigerant engineers, wellbeing leads to insights and analytics experts.

**About the Role | Mō te Tūranga

Reporting to the Sustainability Lead - Transformation and Delivery, this role will support the achievement of our 2025 Sustainability Plan.

Specifically, this will include a focus on advising and engaging teams, operationalising and executing plans to achieve our sustainability commitments and supporting the sustainability team to achieve success across its programme of work.

Core responsibilities include:

Support the Sustainability Lead to develop and embed best practice delivery artefacts and rhythms that operationalise these sustainability work streams within a delivery excellence framework.
Provision and delivery of data and reporting to develop business cases, assess project impacts, track progress (including 2025 Sustainability Plan commitments)
Developing sustainability content for internal communications
Working alongside the wider sustainability team to accelerate progress on priority focus areas Provides support and leansin to key strategic projects if and when required to ensure momentum and delivery (e.g. Soft Plastics Recycling)

**About You | Mōu
This position requires a strong all-rounder with a mix of project, analytical and interpersonal skills. You will be able to establish and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders.

Your experience will likely reflect:

A Degree qualification (or equivalent experience), 12 years experience in sustainability/environmental roles OR business roles (e.g. strategy/consulting/finance/legal/brand) with a strong passion and interest in sustainability.
Experience working in high pressure environments and managing multiple priorities
A commitment to relationship building, a valuesled, respectful and collaborative approach
Familiarity/working knowledge of the regulatory settings in Aotearoa New Zealand related to sustainability
Familiarity with academic, government and NGOs active in the sustainability space in Aotearoa New Zealand
Consumer market experience and retail experience Experience with Agile models of delivery

**Working with Woolworths NZ | Me mahi tahi tatou ki Woolworths NZ
**Our purpose is to make Kiwis' lives a little better every day.

We're friendly, down-to-earth, and energetic - we work hard but we have a great time doing it, and we love what we do.

There is plenty of scope for new ideas, lots of room for you to add value, and importantly, you'll be working with a business that touches the lives of three million New Zealanders a week.

We offer a diverse range of career opportunities across our ecosystem

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We are proud to be a Work 180 endorsed employer for all women, view the great work we do
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**Come as you are | Nau mai, whakatau mai
**We're an equal opportunity employer and are committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all.

**If you're smart and good at what you do, let's work together | Me mahi tahi tatou