SUS - Senior Sustainability Manager

KEO International Consultants; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Sustainability Manager to lead project governance and ensure compliance with sustainability standards. This role involves overseeing project documentation, tracking progress across various stages, and engaging with stakeholders to address their needs. The firm offers a supportive environment that encourages professional growth, hybrid working arrangements, and various community events. If you have a passion for sustainability and a proven track record in project management, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact in an innovative team.

Benefits

Hybrid working arrangements

Athletic sponsorship

Study assistance sponsorship

Employee referral rewards

On-demand counselling services

Regular workplace clinics

Community events

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in sustainability management.
• Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee project governance for sustainability compliance.
• Track project progress and manage sustainability documentation.
• Develop sustainability dashboards and budgets.

Skills

Sustainability Management

Project Governance

Stakeholder Communication

Risk Assessment

Budget Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Overview

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 51st largest global architecture firm and the #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2024 WA100 Survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you’ll discover more than just a job – you’ll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams and beach clean ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits, you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, and employee referral rewards.

Responsibilities

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Senior Sustainability Manager to join our team. This person will be responsible for overseeing project governance to ensure consistency and compliance with the approved processes (Integrated Development Process, Design Management).

We envisage success in this role to include:

1. Supervise the development and the approval of the policies and procedures related to sustainability and secure approval from related departments.
2. Track and report the progress of different projects at various stages (Studies, Design & Construction).
3. Develop and maintain a sustainability dashboard.
4. Identify, manage, and communicate with all sustainability internal and external stakeholders to ensure their needs and expectations are understood and addressed.
5. Aggregate estimated project costs to develop the sustainability department budget, reporting costs through the project lifecycle.
6. Manage sustainability project documents, ensuring they are created, shared, organized, stored, and retrieved efficiently.
7. Manage changes to the project’s scope, schedule, budget & other key elements, ensuring that all changes are evaluated, approved, and implemented successfully.
8. Identify, assess & control potential risks that could impact the objectives of the sustainability projects.

Qualifications

To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include 8+ years of relevant experience partnered with a Bachelor’s Degree. A Master's is preferred. Membership in an associated professional body is required. Qualifications such as LEED AP, PSP, PMP, Mostadem, WELL, and advanced Power BI are advantageous.

KEO’s performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety, and our people. We embrace diversity and recognize its contribution to client success wherever we work.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.