Net Zero Program Lead: Decarbonization Portfolio Delivery

Trellis Group; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 145.000 - 170.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health, vision & dental insurance

Retirement savings plans

Paid time off

Descripción de la vacante

Cushman & Wakefield seeks a Net Zero Program Manager Lead to shape decarbonization strategy and run a portfolio of projects across sites. You will manage scope, schedule, budget, risk, and performance, translating strategy into an executable pipeline and driving measurable outcomes.

You will partner with executives, clients, and cross-functional teams to deliver optimized energy, emissions, and capital projects. 25% travel is required.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction or project management, sustainability, business, real estate, or a related discipline.
• Seven or more years of progressively responsible experience spanning program or project management and Net Zero, energy, sustainability, engineering, or building decarbonization.
• Demonstrated command of scope, schedule, budget, forecasting, risk, change control, governance, and executive reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to develop decarbonization roadmaps, evaluate energy and carbon opportunities, and translate technical strategy into executable projects.
• Experience developing integrated schedules, budgets, milestone plans, dashboards, and decision-ready reporting.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization and influence outcomes without direct authority.
• Strong analytical, communication, facilitation, and client-service skills, including experience presenting to senior leaders.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint and experience with enterprise project, program, or reporting platforms.
• Ability to travel 25%

Responsabilidades

• Lead day‑to‑day management of a portfolio of Net Zero and decarbonization projects across multiple sites and workstreams.
• Translate program objectives into defined scopes, work plans, milestones, ownership, and measurable outcomes.
• Maintain the integrated program roadmap, master schedule, governance calendar, and project pipeline.
• Establish meeting cadences, decision rights, escalation paths, and accountability across internal teams and service partners.
• Drive action-item closure, resolve cross-project dependencies, and escape decisions that require executive direction.
• Manage schedule baselines, critical‑path activities, milestones, resource constraints, and recovery plans across the portfolio.
• Maintain program‑level visibility into approved budgets, commitments, actuals, forecasts, variances, and future funding needs.
• Partner with finance, procurement, and project teams to reconcile cost information and support annual and multi‑year capital planning.
• Maintain risk, issue, assumption, dependency, decision, and change logs with clear owners, due dates, and mitigation actions.
• Apply change control to material changes in scope, schedule, budget, or expected outcomes and elevate variances with recommended corrective actions.
• Produce standardized weekly and monthly reporting on schedule, cost, milestones, risks, decisions, and program performance.
• Develop executive dashboards and governance materials that convert detailed project information into concise, actionable insights.
• Define and maintain program KPIs for project delivery, capital deployment, energy, emissions, savings, and other agreed outcomes.
• Coordinate source‑data collection and validation across project, sustainability, engineering, finance, and data teams.
• Serve as a Net Zero subject‑matter lead for Account Executives and client stakeholders, advising on decarbonization pathways, building systems, electrification, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and emissions‑reduction priorities.
• Own and maintain the portfolio decarbonization roadmap, including asset‑level opportunities, equipment‑replacement strategies, capital requirements, implementation timing, and expected energy and carbon outcomes.
• Establish evaluation and prioritization criteria that balance carbon impact, financial performance, operational needs, asset strategy, regulatory requirements, and delivery readiness.
• Guide initiatives from opportunity identification through feasibility, business case, approval, design, procurement, implementation, commissioning, measurement and verification, and closeout.
• Partner with engineering and technical specialists to validate assumptions and ensure projects meet agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality, and performance requirements.
• Coordinate client stakeholders, C&W account teams, project managers, engineering, sustainability, facilities, procurement, finance, utilities, landlords, consultants, and contractors.
• Facilitate governance meetings, working sessions, budget reviews, and executive updates; document decisions and required actions.
• Support scopes of work, RFPs, vendor evaluations, contracting, and supplier performance management as required.
• Hold internal and external teams accountable for agreed deliverables and communicate effectively with both technical and executive audiences.

Conocimientos

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Executive reporting

Communication

Travel readiness

Delivery discipline

Educación

Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction or project management, sustainability, business, real estate, or a related discipline

Herramientas

Excel

PowerPoint

MS Office

Descripción del empleo

Cushman & Wakefield seeks a Net Zero Program Manager Lead to shape decarbonization strategy and run a portfolio of projects across sites. You will manage scope, schedule, budget, risk, and performance, translating strategy into an executable pipeline and driving measurable outcomes.

You will partner with executives, clients, and cross-functional teams to deliver optimized energy, emissions, and capital projects. 25% travel is required.