As NZ’s largest general merchandise retailer with a footprint accessible to every kiwi, we are uniquely positioned to influence change.  Here at The Warehouse Group (TWG) we want to make sustainable living easy and affordable for everyone.  Our efforts and growing commitment continue to build on the programmes we have established over the past few years - they represent our founder’s legacy and demonstrate the Group’s purpose of helping ‘Kiwis live better every day.’   

To help guide us in this journey we have developed a bold 2040 Sustainable Living Plan which comprises four Building Blocks each delivering specific objectives: 

1. Increase the number of more sustainable products and packaging and help our suppliers reduce their GHG emissions. 

2. Enable sustainable living solutions that help our customers live a healthy, low-carbon lifestyle. 

3. Provide circularity solutions that reduce the amount of post-consumer waste going to landfill. 

4. Increase the sustainability performance of our operations and decrease our operational carbon emissions (Scope 1 & 2) to zero by 2040. 

These Building Blocks are underpinned by day-to-day foundational activity such as ethical sourcing, team engagement and reporting.  

We’re very proud of the progress we’ve made but have much still to do – see our latest Integrated Annual Report for a good overview of our plans and progress to date.  

TWG has set out ambitious sustainability goals as part of its 2040 Sustainable Living Plan and achieving these goals will require transformational change in our business. This role is an opportunity to be at the heart of this change – driving the delivery of key parts of our 2040 Sustainable Living Plan through matrix working and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to create impactful programmes.  

Reporting into our Group Sustainability Lead, your role will have a specific focus on circularity and sustainable innovation where you will develop and drive delivery of progressive strategies and plans to advance our Building Blocks. This will require good planning, organisational, communications and interpersonal skills as well as commercialisation and innovation experience to remove bottlenecks and accelerate execution.  

This will include scoping, developing, piloting/trials of more sustainable innovations aligned with TWG’s sustainability priorities through to proof of concept. You will partner with Finance and Commercial teams to build business cases, investment roadmaps and resource allocation for more sustainable innovations.  

• Purpose Driven: Passionate and enthusiastic about tackling sustainability issues and opportunities and driven to positively impact our business, our customers and our wider society and planet. Relevant sustainability experience (e.g. circular innovation, waste and recycling or packaging sustainability) would be advantageous but not necessarily essential. 

• Relationship Builder: Open and collaborative style with ability to educate, inform and influence others, both internally and externally. 

• Exceptional delivery skills: Confident in using own initiative with proven track record of driving successful outcomes and ability to deal with moving priorities and interdependent deadlines. 

• Commercial & Innovation: Strong internal and external collaboration skills with experience in identifying, scoping, leading and evaluating B2C and / or B2B innovation opportunities. 

• Curious & proactive: A growth mindset with a love of learning and use of knowledge to drive continuous improvement. 

What's in it for you? We offer a dynamic, supportive team environment within a business that cares about and recognises individuals. The business is at an exciting point in its life story.  By empowering our teams and increasing cross-collaboration, we aim to make TWG New Zealand’s best place to work!       

When you join us, you also get discounts across our brands, great team member benefits, and excellent career development opportunities no matter where you are in the business!  We have a flexible working policy that can see you balance your week with up to 2 days working from home (if you wish).     

This really is that career defining role to join our organisation that is committed and empowered to lead more sustainable practices and sustainable living for all new Zealanders – if you think you've got what it takes we would love to hear from you!