Sustainability Lead

Job description / Role

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.

Within our Consult business we harness our unique combination of leading-edge, practical, construction expertise and project delivery consultancy, to unlock the potential in every project.

Our values shape the way we consult, and define the people we want to join us on our journey, they are:

• Safety first - Going home safe and well
• Client focus - Deliver on our promise
• Integrity - Always do the right thing
• Create opportunity - For our people to excel

The project:

A major urban development project comprising of new homes, commercial properties, public spaces and smart urban mobility. Mace have the opportunity to develop and lead and implement the PMO structure to deliver this city development.

Responsible for leading and managing responsible business activities, teams and client service delivery within construct and consult engine in a global market and/or sector.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Accountability for service excellence, delivering purpose-led and measurable outcomes for clients, with particular focus on climate change, social value, and biodiversity.
• Delivery of commercial revenue targets aligned to the annual business plan, requiring the translation of business plan objectives into deliverable strategies, leading to profitable and sustainable business for Mace in this sector.
• Accountability for work winning and bid/no-bid decision making (in collaboration with relevant stakeholders), including maintaining awareness of strategic client pipelines and RFPs.
• Understands client drivers and what good looks like in the sector, collaborating with other Responsible Business Sector Leads and Service Offer leads to bring service offers to new and existing clients.
• Provides leadership and strategic direction to the sector, including developing an integrated service offer to support the Mace project management, cost and commercial management, programme management, and business advisory (centres of excellence) service offers.
• Reports Responsible Business bids using the practice group business development tracker and Mace Infomace Prospects system and keep this up to date to reflect any changes.
• Forms and maintains strong, senior working relationships at the highest levels in client organisations as well as across Mace, the Responsible Business practice group, and our partners, while managing the priorities of the sector and practice group.
• Represents the company and clients in a public forum, attending internal and external events to represent and raise the profile of Mace and the practice group.
• Ensures projects are suitably resourced with the necessary competencies, alongside forward planning and proactive recruitment to support sector pipeline and growth.
• Champions the sector’s contribution to the delivery of the business strategy priorities and corporate targets, in particular, awareness of the carbon metrics of sector projects, while driving an increase in the sector’s carbon handprint (ie project level carbon savings).
• Shares knowledge and insights from the sector, including project case studies and thought leadership.
• Works collaboratively towards the common goal of net zero carbon transition and share responsibility for the proactive identification and management of the associated carbon emissions and reductions during the delivery of work.

• Relevant degree qualification.
• Proven experience working on city development, programme, projects.
• Knowledge transfer and mentoring experience.

You’ll also have:
• Professional membership i.e., IEMA, ICRS, CIEMA, ICE or equivalent demonstrable professional or personal development.
• Sustainability certification BREEAM, LEED, WELL etc.
• Understanding and expertise across the fields of environmental and social sustainability.
• Project and programme management.
• Business development and work winning.
• Financial management and reporting.
• Ability to engage with a wide variety of stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Ability to present technical topics in simple way to variety of audiences.
• Knowledge of how carbon and sustainability considerations will shape the outlook of the projects you are working on.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates.

About the Company

Mace is an international consultancy and construction company that has delivered world class projects since 1990. Today we employ over 6,000 people across five global hubs in Europe, Middle East North Africa and India, North America, Asia Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Four simple values guide our behaviour in our pursuit of a better way; Safety first - going home safe and well, Client focus - deliver on our promise, Create opportunity - for our people to excel, Integrity - always doing the right thing. We aim to attract the best and brightest people, whatever their background, to bring new perspectives to some of the most complex and inspiring projects around the world.

We support our people who are aiming to achieve an academic or professional qualification that will help them develop personally and deliver to the highest standard for our clients. At Mace you can deepen your knowledge, expand your skills and define your own path.