Sustainability Assistant Coordinator
Summary: The Sustainability Assistant Coordinator will support the Zero Waste team in adapting to evolving waste management requirements, focusing on compliance and engagement with stores and suppliers. This role involves managing waste queries, coordinating charity collections, and ensuring effective communication with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will possess relevant experience or qualifications, alongside strong communication and organizational skills. The position is based in Leeds and emphasizes a proactive approach to sustainability initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work on the zero waste aspect of the sustainability agenda focused on operational, food, and customer waste and recycling.
- Communicate with and support waste suppliers, stores, and depots daily to ensure compliance and service support.
- Manage the waste and recycling query inbox and respond to all queries.
- Arrange service, signage, and guides for new stores.
- Coordinate and arrange charity collections of surplus products from Home offices.
- Work with the Salvation Army and waste management companies to clear fly tipping in a timely manner.
Key Skills:
- Waste, recycling, and commercial appreciation.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite.
- Excellent communication skills - written and verbal.
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.
- A self-motivated individual with the ability to think and act on their own.
- A team player with a can-do attitude.
- Organized with good time management skills.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to manage and prioritize a varied workload with daily, weekly, and monthly tasks.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Leeds
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
About The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Zero waste team. This team is involved in helping the business adapt to the changing business requirements in waste management, legislation , reporting and operations. The Zero waste assistant will report directly to the Senior Manager but will support the full team to deliver the zero waste commitments, with particular emphasis on store and depot engagement, compliance reports, supplier survey.
Ideally, you will have an interest, experience or qualification in this field, along with strong customer communication and admin skills and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.
Specifics of the role
* You will work on the zero waste part of the sustainability agenda focussed on operational, food and customer waste and recycling . You will:
* Communicate with and support waste suppliers, stores and depots on a daily basis to ensure compliance and service support.
* Manage the waste and recycling query inbox and respond to all queries.
* Arrange service , signage and guides for new stores
* Coordinate and arrange charity collections of surplus products from Home offices
* Work with the Salcayion army and waste management companies to clear fly tipping in a timely manner
What you'll need:
As Zero Waste assistant , we require an organised individual with good attention to detail and action orientated.
* Waste, recycling, and commercial appreciation
* Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
* Excellent communication skills - written and verbal
* Ability to multi-task and prioritise in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment
* A self-motivated individual with ability to think and act on their own
* A team player with a can-do attitude
* Organised with good time management skills
* Strong attention to detail
* Ability to manage and prioritise a varied workload with daily, weekly, and monthly tasks
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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