Associate Director - Sustainability

TN United Kingdom; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in sustainability consulting seeks an Associate Director to manage Responsible Business activities in Peterborough. The role involves ensuring service excellence, engaging with stakeholders, and driving sustainability initiatives across projects. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in environmental and social sustainability, project management, and business development. The company promotes a diverse workplace and is open to flexible working options.

Qualifications

• Knowledge in Environmental & Social Sustainability.
• Experience in Project and Programme Management.
• Ability to engage with multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead Responsible Business activities and client service delivery.
• Accountability for service excellence and commercial revenue targets.
• Develop integrated service offers to support project management.

Skills

Communication

Critical Thinking

Negotiation Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Influence

Education

Post Graduate Degree

Masters

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Associate Director - Sustainability, Peterborough

Client: Mace

Location: Peterborough, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: a909e1c6c2bf

Job Views: 4

Posted: 12.05.2025

Expiry Date: 26.06.2025

Job Description:

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 website.

Within our consult business, we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical 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
• Integrity - Always do the right thing
• Create opportunity - For our people to excel

Responsible for leading and managing Responsible Business activities, teams, and client service delivery within Construct, Consult, Operate engine in a global market and/or sector.

You'll be responsible for:

• 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.
• Understanding 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.
• Providing leadership and strategic direction to the sector, including developing an integrated service offer to support the Mace project management, cost & commercial management, programme management, and business advisory (centres of excellence) service offers.
• Reporting Responsible Business bids using the practice group business development tracker and Mace Infomace Prospects system, keeping this up to date to reflect any changes.
• Forming and maintaining 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.
• Representing 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.
• Ensuring projects are suitably resourced with the necessary competencies, alongside forward planning and proactive recruitment to support sector pipeline and growth.
• Championing 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).
• Sharing knowledge and insights from the sector, including project case studies and thought leadership.
• Working collaboratively towards the common goal of net zero carbon transition, and sharing responsibility for the proactive identification and management of the associated carbon emissions and reductions during the delivery of work.

You’ll need to have:

• Subject Matter Expertise: Knowledge, Understanding & Expertise across the fields of Environmental & Social Sustainability.
• Project and/or Programme Management.
• Business Development/Work-Winning.
• Line management and team leadership.
• Stakeholder Engagement: ability to engage with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Collaborator: ability to engage with multiple teams in a collaborative manner.
• Communication: ability to present technical topics in a simple way to a variety of audiences.
• Influence: ability to positively influence others to achieve PASW, BNG, V2S ambitions.
• Relationship Management: regulation of relationships, conflict management.
• Qualifications: Relevant Tertiary Qualification (Post Graduate Degree, Etc) (or equivalent).

You'll also have:

• Curious: ability to investigate, research, question and continuously improve.
• Presentation Skills/Story Telling.
• Critical Thinking/Problem Solving.
• Interpersonal Skills/Self Awareness/Structured Feedback.
• Negotiation Skills.
• Masters (or equivalent).
• NZC, Scope 1-3 emissions, TCFD/TNFD.
• Setting a scope, objectives, targets/Industry Benchmarks LETI, RICS.
• Building performance standards - Part L & Future.
• Standards – EN15978, ISO 14026 Standards PAS 2080 (50, 60, 35).
• TM 54 and how to use them.
• Embodied carbon and how to drive reductions - LCA - One click.
• Electrification - heating and cooling demand/supply.
• Governance & Risk (PMO).
• Interaction at different levels (executive vs project management/(design team vs supply chain).
• Building sustainability into contracts & procurement.
• Building sustainability into the design process.
• Biodiversity, Nature Based Solutions, Green Infrastructure.
• Social value and quantification methodologies ie TOMS, V2S, SV Portal
• Sustainability Certification (BREEAM, LEED, WELL, etc).

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfill all of the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.

We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.
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