ESG Director - DCS UK

Job description

Job Title: Regional ESG Director

Business Sector: Data Centre Solutions

Location: London, UK

COMPANY PROFILE

CBRE is the global leader in real estate services and leverages the industry's most powerful knowledge base to meet the commercial real estate needs of its clients worldwide. Our vision is to be the preeminent, vertically integrated, globally capable real estate service firm. Globally, we employ over 70,000 employees and operate in 48 countries.

Purpose of the role

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions is a leading global provider of integrated facilities and corporate real estate management.

CBRE Data Center Solutions (DCS) has over 25 years' experience operating specialist teams that offer consulting, advisory and transaction, project management, and integrated data centre operations services.

We are recruiting a Regional Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Director to join our team and will be responsible for supporting clients to meet with their corporate objectives and in meeting evolving legislation and best practice.

This would include identifying, implementing and validating energy, carbon and cost reductions, as well as broader environmental and social initiatives.

Main responsibilities

• Development and where required the implementation of a sustainability or Net Zero plan for our clients, including legal compliance, risk management, statutory and internal reporting of energy efficiency, water use, waste and recycling and sustainable procurement for the region and reporting it back to the Global ESG Director.
• Ensuring that all activities under our operational control are conducted and operated in accordance with relevant environmental legislation and/or guidelines. Working with both our operations and projects teams.
• Manage works in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to deliver industry leading energy and sustainability service offering.
• Establish and implement best practice processes, procedures, templates, specifications and guidelines for all project types and frameworks for the measurement and verification of energy, water and waste efficiency projects.
• Collaborate with sustainability team members to align outcomes with our sustainability strategy and facilitate sustainability engagement and training for internal and external stakeholders.
• To provide support to Sales Director and Projects Director in client pursuits and develop materials to enhance our offering to clients
• To act as the trusted advisor to DCS customers and support creation of end to end strategies that meet their ESG corporate goals and objectives and respond to changing legislation and best practice
• Develop and capture and share best practices across the region
• Hold events for both internal and external stakeholders
• Maintain a thorough understanding of corporate sustainability and governance, legal, statutory and technical issues which affect both DCS clients and CBRE
• Understand policies of national and local government level in the area of environmental impact and climate change
• Stay up to date and share sustainability updates within new products and services

Primary Objectives and Tasks

• Assist clients to measure, monitor and report on ESG
• Develop and advise on ESG strategy/solutions, developing these into working projects, which meet client objectives and best practice
• Assist clients to meet their increasingly challenging compliance requirements
• To be able to normalize and verify savings post implementation
• Project management and implementation of initiatives.
• Ensure clients benefit from emerging opportunities, innovation and technology
• Develop and advise on energy strategy/solutions, developing these into working projects, which meet client objectives and best practice
• Identify opportunities to reduce carbon emissions within clients' property portfolios
• Calculate potential savings in terms of kWh, CO2 and cost followed by robust validation post implementation.
• Assist clients to meet their increasingly challenging compliance requirements
• Work with and support the Head of Projects, ensuring that projects are as energy efficient as is financially possible.

Core Competencies

• Extensive working knowledge of energy and sustainability, governance including engineering or building services
• Extensive knowledge of the principle techniques and technologies which support energy and sustainability
• Competency in current benchmark techniques and statistical analysis
• Capable of preparing fully costed proposals and reports
• Ability to carry out full energy surveys and feasibility studies of energy technologies
• Ability to support the formation of client plans to achieve carbon neutrality or net zero
• Understand the principles behind HVAC, refrigeration and lighting operation and system design / integration

Skills and Education Required

Qualifications

• Degree ideally in energy and sustainability, engineering or building services
• Specific energy efficiency / low carbon qualifications are desirable
• Relevant professional membership e.g. CIBSE, Energy Institute is desirable

Project Management

• Project management skills, with ability to manage multiple complex work-streams and clients, ability to manage budgets
• Delivers work efficiently and to time

Experience

• Experience in energy efficiency and wider sustainable energy is required
• Experience of energy & water management, including compliance would be beneficial
• Extensive knowledge of the principle techniques and technologies which support the efficient use of energy
• Experience in working across a large portfolio, preferably within a critical sector, would be beneficial.

Technical Skills

• Ability to interpret energy & water data and use as a basis for reduction strategies
• Knowledge of Low and zero carbon technologies

Communication

• Exceptional report writing skills with ability to communicate technical issues effectively
• Strong verbal communication skills
• Demonstrable ability to instill confidence in clients

Strategic Skills

• Ability to research, analyse and form conclusions on complex issues
• Presents compelling arguments to support clients' decision making
• Knowledge of customer operations, business drivers, financials and specialist sources of information, legislative requirements where necessary

Personal Skills

• Exceptional team-working skills

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.