Kaitaki Toitūtanga Sustainability Manager

Kaitaki Toitūtanga Sustainability Manager

Full-time

**Company Description**:
Z has a clear purpose: Powering better journeys, today and tomorrow. As one of New Zealand’s largest transport energy companies, we have a commitment to delivering safe, secure, and reliable transport energy - with the opportunity to deliver new journeys, with new energy solutions in a changing world.

We are proud to be the Kiwi contingent in the Ampol Group, an independent Trans-Tasman energy company, with trading offices across the globe, which are united behind our shared purpose. While many of the challenges and opportunities we face go beyond national boundaries, together we have the scale, influence, and capability to deliver for our customers, communities, and our people.

At Z we have four Stands; these are the areas where we stand for changing the game within Aotearoa New Zealand. Our Stands are Safety & Wellbeing, Diversity & Inclusion, Community and Sustainability.

Our Community and Environmental Sustainability strategy guides us towards 2030 and provides a clear pathway for how Z can achieve meaningful social and environmental outcomes in areas that we can have the greatest impact and are most relevant to our business and the communities in which we live and operate in.

Joining us as our Kaitaki Toitūtanga Sustainability Manager will see you support the implementation of this strategy while spear-heading initiatives that ensure that our Environmental Sustainability Stand is embedded across the organisation with the goal of achieving extraordinary outcomes.

Reporting to the Head of Sustainability and Community, within our Corporate Affairs team, encompassing the Communications, Government Relations, Community and Sustainability functions, you will use your knowledge, passion and influence across Z to drive this mahi and have an opportunity to contribute to an environmentally sustainable Aotearoa New Zealand. You'll be supported by an experienced manager who is passionate and strongly committed to your well-being, growth and development.

**This role could be based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington or Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.**

**You will have the opportunity to**
- Engage collaboratively with internal stakeholders to ensure the delivery of mahi aligned with the Environmental Sustainability and Community Strategy across the full scope of Z’s business
- Champion the continued development of culture and capability both within Z and across our suppliers and partners, that sees environmental sustainability as a core consideration of all decisions and actions, with a goal of every person feeling responsible for environmental sustainability at Z
- Deliver advice on Z’s sustainability performance, drawing on sustainability data and insights while considering our corporate reputation and developments in stakeholder expectations
- Develop commercial acumen
- Embrace Te Terenga, our commitment to Te Ao Māori, supported with learning and development to grow your cultural competency
- Work collaboratively to help achieve results for the Ampol Group

**Qualifications**:
**What you’ll bring to Z**
- 8+ years of professional experience, you might bring this from a background in private or public sector sustainability management, environmental policy, strategy implementation or innovation
- Tertiary qualified, this could be across environmental science, policy, law or commerce
- Strong strategic and critical thinking capability
- A willingness to engage, influence and bring about change across all levels
- Excellent communications skills, the ability to make complex information simple and craft messaging that resonates with stakeholders to inspire action
- A love of learning enabling you to absorb new information quickly, evolve and respond effectively to sustainability challenges in the evolving global and domestic context
- An openness and understanding of Te Ao Māori including Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its principles

And of course, you’ll be passionate about what matters to Z, embracing and living our values to help us deliver on our aspirations and broader commitment to Aotearoa New Zealand.

**Additional Information**:
**What we can offer you**
- A competitive remuneration package including short-term incentive plan, medical insurance for you and your family, enhanced employer contribution for KiwiSaver
- Generous leave provisions including enhanced sick leave, parental leave benefits and the option to buy additional leave
- The balance of hybrid working, enjoy some of your week at home and some in our welcoming office space
- The opportunity to contribute and be part of a supportive team that is here to make a difference
- A chance to build your own capability through learning from some of the industry’s most knowledgeable people who have a desire to share their insights along with access to upskilling opportunities and career development across the organisation
- Two days a year to do Good in your Hood, th