Sustainability Manager

Overview

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.

• 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 ALDIs 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.
• Manage the relationship with external consultants who support Aldi with energy and water management.
• Set goals and targets for each project and the team.
• Research and propose carbon reduction, energy & water efficiency technologies to provide the business with a commercial advantage, achieve cost saving targets and reduce its environmental impact.
• Tailor communication of complex information in a clear way that is relevant for the audience.
• Positively influence multiple levels of the business to continue to consider sustainability in their decision making.
• Proactively develop own knowledge of topics, demonstrating initiative and suggesting ways of reducing operational carbon emissions, water and energy use.
• Monitor competitor activity in the relevant areas of Sustainability.
• Maximise external communication opportunities by working with our Customer Interaction Teams.

• 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-orientated 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).