Senior Associate - Sustainability

Hines; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Hines is seeking a Senior Sustainability professional to lead European sustainability implementation across our portfolio of developments and operations. You will drive decarbonization strategies, manage data collection and reporting, and collaborate with asset managers, facilities teams, and consultants to ensure ESG performance2024 objectives are met.

The role requires deep knowledge of real estate sustainability, strong project management, and the ability to coordinate across a matrix

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, or Environmental Sciences management.
• 8+ years in development, asset or property management with sustainability focus.
• Strong project management and multi-disciplinary teamwork.
• Ability to work in matrix organizations.
• Excellent MS Office and Excel skills.
• Clear written and spoken English; second language a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive Sustainability implementation approach and tools across European platform and buildings.
• Ensure portfolios and assets achieve Sustainability performance goals in development or operations.
• Develop a consistent sustainability approach across all buildings with a focus on decarbonization and governance.
• Help respond to investor requests on sustainability matters for portfolios.
• Develop, implement, and expand sustainability strategies across European country platform teams.
• Coordinate data collection, optimization, and data management strategies.
• Support project teams with their sustainability strategies and implementation.

Skills

Project management

MS Office

Communication skills

English proficiency

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in architecture/engineering/Environmental Sciences management

Tools

MS Office

Excel

Job description

Overview

When you join Hines, you will embark on a career journey fueled by vision and guided by leaders who set the standards of our industry. Our legacy is rooted in innovation and excellence, earning us a spot on Fast Company’s esteemed annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies, as well as recognition as one of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Companies to Work For in 2024. Discover endless opportunities to grow and make your mark at Hines.

Responsibilities

Drive Sustainability implementation approach and tools across European platform and buildings - working with broader Hines teams and related consultants to do so successfully. Ensure that the portfolios and the individual assets are achieving Sustainability performance goals, whether projects are in the development phase or operational.

A large part of the responsibilities will be to help provide a consistent approach across all buildings. Focus will be on decarbonization in practical steps, but equally should focus on the many facets of sustainability, including the social and governance related topics. Activities will range from driving data collection strategies, designing, building, and operating buildings in the most sustainability performant way forward

Other responsibilities will include helping to respond to investor requests and questions on matters sustainability related to specific portfolios.

• Understand, help develop, implement, and expand sustainability strategies across the European country platform teams.
• Support in driving sustainability performance enhancement in developments; for example, designing for carbonization in operations and embodied carbon.
• Support in driving sustainability performance enhancement in operations; for example, asset level roadmaps, reviewing sustainability scope of services.
• Help devise and implement data collection, optimization, and data management strategy.
• Identify and coordinate implementation of social programs and initiatives, for example, health and wellbeing and community engagement programs.
• Support individual project teams with their sustainability strategies and implementation in practice.
• Support fund portfolios with their sustainability strategies and ensuring they are forward thinking.
• Review and leverage technology to implement sustainability improvements.
• Create and maintain sustainability budgets in excel format on the various initiatives.
• Establish and maintain relationships with broad Hines teams: local country asset managers, property managers, facility managers, development and construction managers
• Consult and coordinate initiatives with third party sustainability consultants, architects and planners, engineers, data specialists, or other related. .
• Assist in preparing sustainability reporting and presentations – related to case studies.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements include:

• Bachelor’s degree, ideally in architecture, engineering, or .Environmental Sciences management.
• 8+ years of experience in development, asset or property management with strong focus on sustainability role within real estate management.
• Driven, rigorous, flexible, versatile and with good people skills and ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Strong project management skills.
• Capable of working with many different constituencies within a matrix organisation.
• Strong organisational, communication, problem solving skills, able to prioritise and work independently.
• Should have a good sense of the theoretical side of sustainability but an even stronger understanding of the practical side of implementing sustainability in real estate.
• Understanding of real estate construction and development as well as building operations is important.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office and Excel.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, have a strong command of verbal and written English.A second language will be considered as an asset.

Closing

At Hines, we believe the built world is ultimately about people. As one of the world’s largest privately held real assets firms, we bring nearly seven decades of investment, development, and management experience to work that shapes cities and communities around the world.

Our people make that possible. Across 29 countries, more than 4,600 colleagues bring different perspectives and expertise to Hines, with opportunities to take on meaningful responsibility, learn from leaders across the business, and build a career with room to evolve. We support that journey through professional development, competitive rewards, comprehensive benefits, and a culture grounded in trust and high standards.

Hines is proud to be named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2024.

We are an equal opportunity employer and support workforce diversity.