Sustainability Manager

Career Opportunities:
Sustainability Manager (10906)

Requisition
10906
-Posted
- Sustainability

- London

LOCATION:

MARBLE ARCH, LONDON (Hybrid – 4 days in office)

REPORTING TO: HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY

TYPE OF

CONTRACT:

FULL TIME, FIXED TERM CONTRACT

Our purpose is to create and manage outstanding places which deliver positive outcomes for all our stakeholders on a long term, sustainable basis.

We are a FTSE 100 business with a strong balance sheet and £13bn of assets under management. But with just 600 employees you’re given the ability to make a big impact and elevate your career quickly.

Our diverse, passionate team of experts works on some of the most ambitious, innovative and sustainable projects in the country – from our high-quality campuses across central London, to some of the top retail schemes in the UK – providing a rewarding career journey where you can shape how you grow.

We believe in shared success and enabling people to be themselves. If you want to feel listened to and understood in an environment where your opinions count and bright ideas are encouraged, you’ve come to the right place!

In our recent engagement survey 93% of our employees stated they were proud to work for British Land!

The Sustainability Manager is responsible for leading delivery of sustainability performance for our buildings and places in line with British Land’s 2030 Sustainability Strategy, and Net Zero Pathway, with this particular role focussed on our development projects. Communicating and supporting staff, external project teams and supply chain through the delivery of sustainability across our development portfolio.

• Deliver corporate and project specific targets in line with 2030 Strategy and Sustainability Brief requirements and accreditation to ISO
  14001 Environmental Standard.
• Deliver project specific sustainability targets across a large portfolio with direct day to day responsibility for over[20] projects (developments and Canada Water).
• Achieve best in class sustainability ratings on all developments including BREEAM, Home Quality Mark, and WELL Standard.
• Delivery of Net Zero Pathway – aligned with Science Based Targets, RICS WLC Guidance, NABERS, UKGBC and BBP commitments and responsible for providing robust verified data for offsetting strategy.
• Work with Development Directors to lead design teams to ensure our developments are both embodied and operationally carbon efficient.
• Oversee Place Based Approach across our Developments – working with Social Impact Manager to integrate campus led initiatives into Local Charter plans focussed on connecting local stakeholders to opportunities, education, employment, supporting local businesses and wellbeing.
• Responsible for leading Development Sustainability reporting and feed into the Annual Report and Sustainability Accounts.
• Collate and prepare evidence to support our annual assurance process and external communications, ensuring that financial, carbon and other performance metrics claims can be backed up with robust and complete data.
• Oversee submission of ESG benchmarks, such as GRESB and CDP by reviewing responses to relevant questions related to development projects.

• Guide and support development teams through successful delivery of our Sustainability Brief and 2030 Strategy focusing on mitigating our environmental impacts related to energy, carbon, circular economy, materials, climate resilience, biodiversity, and water.
• Engage and collaborate across business departments including Property Management Team at early stages of developments to ensure successful delivery of Design for Management and Soft Landings/Aftercare processes.
• Leasing and Marketing to ensure positive communication of sustainability across our developments.
• For each development project, collaborate with the development team to recruit appropriate sustainability consultants, advising on scope of work and briefing successful consultant on our 2030 Strategy and ambition for the sustainability Brief.

• Review government, local policy, industry guidance and commitments and where appropriate integrate into…