Overview

We’re looking for a Sustainability Delivery Officer to join Co-op’s Property team. In this role, we’ll look to you to support compliance and environmental risk management across our Property function. It’s a busy job, and a varied one too – you’ll support project management activities across a range of Property sustainability projects. You’ll manage sustainability data; organising, analysing, critiquing, and reporting on it so that we can spot opportunities to make things better. It’s a great chance for you to develop your skills in a high-profile area of our Co-op, making a difference for our communities, customers, and member-owners.

What you’ll do

  • Provide Project Management support across Property Environmental Sustainability projects, such as Net Zero Transmission, Waste, Water, Biodiversity and Circular Economy
  • Track progress, assurance, actions, and forward look opportunities related to Property environmental compliance and risk
  • Support administration of technical working groups including minutes, actions, and reporting
  • Act as the technical leader on the analysis, interpretation, and challenge of large amounts of complex environmental data
  • Help to design and deliver our Sustainability Learning and Development programme
  • Support and inspire senior partners across Property functions

This role would suit people who have

  • Experience in the sustainability sector, with a recognised professional qualification in environmental management/sustainability
  • Strong analytical skills: you’re confident in working with and manipulating large sets of data to draw out insight and make decisions
  • An understanding of data quality practices and controls implementation
  • The ability to use data technologies and data modelling
  • Strong problem solving, organisation, decision making skills

Why Co-op? 

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

  • An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
  • 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
  • A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
  • Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
  • Coaching and training to support your career development
  • Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We’re also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we’ll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We’ll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.