Job Title
Net Zero Carbon Engineering Lead
Job Description Summary
The Sustainability & ESG Services business delivers a broad range of sustainability advisory; certification; reporting; and asset optimization services for Cushman & Wakefield’s clients. This role is focused on engineering and technical optimization projects, helping clients move towards and achieve Net Zero for their portfolio.
Job Description
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
The role has responsibility for:
• Growth: Growing the business with existing and new clients
• Partnering: Forming strong internal partnerships across business lines, particularly with our Project Management, FM, and Asset Services divisions. This will create win-win-win scenarios for our clients, and internal teams working together.
• Managing and mentoring: Overseeing and managing the delivery team, currently 4-5 FTE. Mentoring the team, growing their skills, expanding our services, and ensuring quality is maintained.
• Quality: Setting the standards for service delivery, continuous refinement and optimization of key processes to improve quality and reduce costs, scaling best practices, and standardized delivery
FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY:
- Strong commercial acumen, understanding the Sustainability and broader business P&Ls Ability to ensure profitability of services delivered, and think big in terms of creating positive impact.
- Experience managing budgets, and acting responsibly and decisively to unlock growth.
KEY SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES:
• Works independently, uses initiative, and exercises sound judgment
• Displays a “can-do” and solution-focused attitude
• Excellent people, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and external relationships
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
• Technical- engineering or design background
• Solutions selling and business development experience – strongly preferred
• Greater than 10 years of demonstrated experience in sustainability and ESG in the real estate industry
• Team management experience
• Excellent people, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and external relationships
• Demonstrates understanding and use of positive stakeholder management approaches
• Collaborative, team player
Why join Cushman & Wakefield?
As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop, and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from:
• Being part of a growing global company.
• Career development and a promotion from within culture.
• An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion
We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.
We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional, and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.
We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.
That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.
We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.
As an equal opportunity employer, Cushman & Wakefield encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and female candidates to apply. Cushman & Wakefield promotes safety at all times.