Sustainability Manager

Aldi UK; Atherstone; Hybrid; GBP 61,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job description

We’re looking for a National Sustainability Manager to work on helping us achieve net zero emissions! The opportunity is an 18-month contract as a maternity cover and reports into a National Real Estate Director who you’ll be working with to deliver our ambitious Global Sustainability Strategy.

Do you want to help make sustainability affordable to ALDI customers? Apply to join #TeamALDI today!

Your New Role:

• Leading efforts to help ALDI achieve and report progress towards our Net Zero Targets, ensuring alignment with the international company’s goals.
• Implementing impactful energy and emissions reduction projects within the National Real Estate department.
• Analysing the energy and carbon footprint of real estate projects to support ALDI’s sustainability and carbon reporting requirements.
• Driving the implementation and tracking progress against ALDI's water strategy, ensuring efficiency and compliance. This also includes the rollout of automated meter reader installation across the GB Store estate.
• Overseeing ALDI’s utility management, including energy forecasting, billing and supplier management.
• Coordinating and advancing ALDI GB & IE’s Real Estate Sustainability trajectory, supporting long-term environmental strategies.
• Identifying opportunities for innovation and proposing initiatives to enhance ALDI’s sustainability portfolio, such as Private Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs).
• Managing ALDI’s solar revenue portfolio, ensuring effective oversight and financial performance.
• Reviewing embodied carbon reduction opportunities as part of a wider forum and improving the accuracy of reporting to ensure comprehensive assessments.
• Supporting the National Real Estate Director with the delivery of projects to reduce Aldi’s operational environmental impact.
• Leading projects to deliver energy, carbon, and water reduction across the business.
• Managing the relationship with external consultants who support Aldi with energy and water management.
• Setting goals and targets for each project and the team.
• Researching and proposing carbon reduction, energy & water efficiency technologies to provide the business with a commercial advantage, achieve cost saving targets and reduce its environmental impact.
• Tailoring communication of complex information in a clear way that is relevant for the audience.
• Positively influencing multiple levels of the business to continue to consider sustainability in their decision making.
• Proactively developing own knowledge of topics, demonstrating initiative and suggesting ways of reducing operational carbon emissions, water and energy use.
• Monitoring competitor activity in the relevant areas of Sustainability.
• Maximising external communication opportunities by working with our Customer Interaction Teams.

About You:

• Degree qualification (or equivalent) in a sustainability or environment related topic.
• Proven relevant experience in a sustainability related role.
• Experience delivering impactful Sustainability related projects or reports, preferably in the topic areas of energy or carbon.
• Experience with energy or carbon data analysis.
• Comfortable with processing large data sets.
• Experience with Power Purchase Agreements.
• Knowledge of embodied carbon software such as One Click LCA.
• Experience with colleague engagement or behaviour change programmes.
• Experience developing business cases.
• Able to positively influence stakeholders to gain buy-in for Sustainability initiatives.
• Autonomous and able to deliver efficient project management.
• Strong verbal communication skills with the ability to present to internal and external audiences in a simple and meaningful way.
• Well-developed written communication skills with the ability to deliver concise and clear briefing papers.
• Exceptional analytical skills and comfortable processing large volumes of data to track emissions and consumption.
• Detail-oriented and curious.
• Organised and able to plan ahead and prioritise your own workload and stakeholders’.
• A team player and able to build strong relationships both internally and externally.
• Willing to be flexible and able to work to tight deadlines when necessary.
• Enjoys working as part of a team and supporting colleagues.
• A champion of Sustainability who will support us to take the topic even further within Aldi.

What You'll Get in Return:

• Salary from £61,985 rising to £95,655.
• Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm, with the opportunity of 2 days remote working.
• 5 weeks’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
• In office flexi-time.
• Full training provided.
• Pension scheme.
• Private employee medical insurance after 6 months.
• Company sick pay scheme.
• Company maternity and adoption pay from commencement and paternity leave pay after 1 year.
• Long service rewards.
• Access to MyBenefits, where you can find a wide range of benefits, including our bike to work scheme, shopping and cinema discounts, health cash plan, a FREE will, travel and discounted gym memberships, as well as a host of benefits to support your financial and wellbeing needs.
• Access to a free, 24/7, confidential virtual GP service for all Aldi Colleagues and their children (under the age of 16).

*You’ll need to live within 90 minutes of your main working location.

*Please be aware that this role does not fulfil the requirements for visa sponsorship.

Aldi is an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive workforce and are dedicated to promoting a culture of inclusion, providing an environment in which collaboration, respect and fairness are essential. We value diversity and are dedicated to treating all of our colleagues and prospective colleagues fairly and with respect.

If you’re looking for a career that gives you more, apply today!