Zero Waste Assistant – Leeds, LS11 5AD

Overview

  Zero Waste Assistant – Leeds, LS11 5AD 

Job Title

Zero Waste Assistant

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits.

Category

Environmental Health (HEA)

Closing Date

14 October 2025

Part of our Environmental social governance strategy (ESG) Asda is dedicated to reducing packaging and waste, meeting customer needs for healthy and sustainable choices, and minimizing our carbon footprint. To support this mission, we are seeking a passionate Zero Waste assistant to join our team. This individual will play an important role in supporting the Zero Waste team to meet zero waste commitments, to ensure compliance to waste policies and procedures and provide admin and data support.

In this role you will be responsible for

• Sustainability and admin support for the Zero Waste team, supporting Asda stores and Asda express.

• Help drive forward recycling levels to meet circular economy and commercial commitments.

• Provide day to day support for store waste and recycling queries and department specific query inboxes.

• Support the team with service requests and invoicing.

• Provide insight and support for any new waste and recycling legislation to ensure compliance,

• Waste and recycling data, store and supplier survey support.

• Support redistribution of surplus stock.

• Keeping up to date waste and recycling policies and procedures and communicating to stores

• Communicate with and support waste suppliers, stores and depots on a daily basis to ensure compliance and service support

• Coordinate zero waste activity plan of projects

Lets find out about you

• 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 multitask, prioritise and work to deadlines

• Ability to manage and prioritise a varied workload with daily, weekly, and monthly tasks

Desirable

• Sustainability qualification and / or appreciation

• Admin experience

Everything you’ll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves