- 12 month fixed term opportunity
- Influence and deliver Countdown’s sustainability agenda
- 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 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 an ambitious and supportive NZ sustainability team, while also joining a community of more than 50 sustainability practitioners within the wider Woolworths Group. You will be able to apply your strategic and sustainability expertise to a varied and stimulating scope of impact areas. 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 Head of Sustainability, the Sustainability Manager - Strategy and Delivery will enable and empower Countdown to deliver on our 2025 Sustainability Plan by providing strategic support and building capability to achieve our commitments.
The role will see you responsible for:
- Active enablement of the 2025 sustainability goals, across our ‘people’, ‘planet’ and ‘product workstreams.
- Development or acceleration of initiatives to deliver on the 2025 Sustainability Plan and drive operationalisation across key focus areas.
- Leading the implementation of sustainability KPIs for all parts of the business
- Leading sustainability reporting cycles and the preparation and facilitation of updates for the Executive team and other internal stakeholders
- Leading Countdown participation in Group-wide sustainability delivery processes Developing and implementing initiatives to create momentum and build team engagement with sustainability at Countdown
About You | Mōu
This senior level position requires a decisive and energised individual who can drive achievement against our commitments, provide expertise to our internal stakeholders, and continue to evolve our sustainability strategy.
Your experience will likely reflect:
- A degree qualification (or demonstrated equivalent experience), and ideally 5+ years experience in sustainability/environmental roles OR strategy/ transformation roles with sustainability exposure, preferably within a large company/corporate environment
- Proven ability to create project momentum
- Track record integrating sustainability objectives within a complex organisation and achieving buy-in from internal stakeholders
- Experience with Agile
- Experience working in high pressure environments and managing multiple priorities
- Excellent grasp of sustainable business concepts, methodologies, standards and tools, including emerging trends and concepts - and policy developments
- A commitment to relationship building, a values-led, respectful and collaborative approach
- Consumer market experience and retail experience would be beneficial but is not required
This is an exciting opportunity to create tangible impact at a scale rarely seen in Aotearoa. If you have the skills, commitment and values we are seeking - apply today!
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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