About the Role
As Chief Executive Officer, you will report directly to the Board of Directors. Your mandate is clear: stabilise performance, embed operational excellence, and rebuild stakeholder confidence. The platform is in place—what’s needed is a leader who brings energy, credibility, and focus.
This is not a first-time CEO appointment. It’s an opportunity for a proven leader to make a tangible impact, delivering on the organisation’s potential while building a resilient, safety-focused, and values-driven culture.
Key Priorities for FY2025
- Restore Group Profitability : Execute cost-out and revenue-lift strategies with discipline—route optimisation, pricing, margin review, and performance cadence are central.
- Lead Cultural Reset : Rebuild trust through clarity, accountability, and safety-first behaviours. Frontline visibility and leadership cohesion are vital.
- Standardise Operations : Drive ERP utilisation, job costing, and customer onboarding protocols across all units and acquisitions.
- Deliver Disciplined Growth : Execute on geographic expansion, deepen market penetration, and lead bolt-on M&A integration.
- Rebuild Credibility : Engage customers and investors transparently, demonstrating measurable turnaround traction and leadership maturity.
You are a battle-tested executive who brings a practical mindset and sharp commercial instincts. You are decisive, hands-on, and experienced in transforming mid-sized businesses—especially in operationally complex or asset-intensive sectors.
Essential Experience :
- Prior experience as a CEO
- Track record of financial turnaround and operational transformation
- Leadership of multi-site teams in waste, industrial services, or asset intensive sectors
- M&A execution and post-deal integration
- Familiarity with health & safety-critical environments
- Public or investor-facing company experience
- Systematisation and scaling of mid-size businesses
- Christchurch location (preferred, not mandatory)
- Accountable, transparent, and commercially focused
- Strong communicator, culturally aware, and engagement-oriented
- Resilient, pragmatic, and delivery-driven.
This is a rare opportunity to lead a values-based business through its next phase of growth and impact. WasteCo has a foundation to scale and now seeks the right CEO to activate its full potential. You’ll work alongside an engaged board, a capable executive team, and committed stakeholders, while shaping the future of waste and industrial services in New Zealand.
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For a confidential conversation, contact Iain MacGibbon at Farrow Jamieson on +64 9 915 9144 .
