Manager, Sustainable Service Providers & Operations – 6 months Rest

ECADIN; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Rest Days

Parental leave

Income Protection

AI & Data Academy

Study assistance

Professional memberships

Job summary

Rest, one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member super funds, invites you to shape its climate-first procurement strategy and manage vendor risks across a large network of service providers.

You will partner with Finance and Investments, embedding sustainable procurement, measuring emissions and supporting regulatory disclosures. This hybrid role contributes to the financial wellbeing of millions of Australians and a meaningful environmental impact.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in a vendor management, procurement or supply chain function focused on sustainability & modern slavery risks.
• Experience working in financial services or large corporate organisations – superannuation experience would be highly regarded
• Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing sustainable procurement and vendor management frameworks
• Experience managing sustainability or climate-related data, including greenhouse gas inventories, emissions reductions programs and reporting
• Experience supporting regulatory disclosures, assurance processes, and audits

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a climate-first sustainability approach for Rest’s vendors, including methodologies to identify, assess, monitor and manage climate-related risks and opportunities including modern slavery risks
• Integrate climate change considerations into procurement and vendor management processes, including partnering with service provider managers to support them with due diligence, onboarding, contract requirements, and ongoing service provider management
• Work closely with Finance to lead the measurement, management and reporting of workplace greenhouse gas emissions, particularly scope 3 service provider emissions management
• Report into and contribute to the deliverables of the climate-related disclosure project

Skills

Vendor management

Sustainability

Modern slavery risks

Procurement

Regulatory compliance

Job description

About the job

We’ve been around since 1988, and today we’re one of Australia’s largest profit‑to‑member super funds.

That means everything we do is focused on delivering better outcomes for our members – not shareholders.

Closing date: 30th October 2026

Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies

Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier

Job Description

At Rest, we help more than 2 million Australians to build a better financial future. With around $112 billion in funds under management, we focus on delivering strong long-term outcomes for our members — from their first job through to retirement*. Your best at Rest means focusing on what matters, being trusted to get on with it, and knowing your work genuinely makes a difference. That’s how we operate every day, guided by our values:Be Daring, Keep It Simple, Take Action and Have Grit.

Join us as a Manager, Sustainable Service Providers & Operations, where you’ll build Rest’s climate-first sustainable procurement approach for its service provider management. This is your opportunity to make a real contribution to the financial wellbeing of millions of Australians.

Supporting the climate-related financial disclosures project and working closely with finance and investments, the role aims to assess and formalise Rest’s management of climate-related risks and determine materiality in the context of Rest’s workplace.

• Develop and implement a climate-first sustainability approach for Rest’s vendors, including methodologies to identify, assess, monitor and manage climate-related risks and opportunities including modern slavery risks


• Integrate climate change considerations into procurement and vendor management processes, including partnering with service provider managers to support them with due diligence, onboarding, contract requirements, and ongoing service provider management


• Work closely with Finance to lead the measurement, management and reporting of workplace greenhouse gas emissions, particularly scope 3 service provider emissions management


• Report into and contribute to the deliverables of the climate-related disclosure project

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in a vendor management, procurement or supply chain function focused on sustainability & modern slavery risks


• Experience working in financial services or large corporate organisations – superannuation experience would be highly regarded


• Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing sustainable procurement and vendor management frameworks


• Experience managing sustainability or climate-related data, including greenhouse gas inventories, emissions reductions programs and reporting


• Experience supporting regulatory disclosures, assurance processes, and audits

Additional Information

What you’ll find at Rest

• Hybrid working


• 5 Rest Days (wellbeing days) each year in addition to annual leave


• Eligible employees are entitled to 22 weeks paid parental leave (gender neutral)


• Continued super contributions during parental leave


• Learning and development opportunities, including AI & Data Academy, leadership programs, LinkedIn Learning, study assistance and professional memberships


• Income Protection Insurance


• Option to purchase additional leave


• Recognition through our Rest Excellence Awards

If you share our values and this sounds like the kind of place you’d do your best work, we’d like to hear from you.

Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion – where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.

We value the different backgrounds, lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, faiths, gender identities, sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.

We welcome applications from all candidates. To be considered, you will need the right to work in Australia.

*Funds under management as at 30 June 2026. Rest is recognised as a superannuation leader across a range of areas including performance, responsible investment and member value. Find out more at https://rest.com.au/why-rest/awards.