Director, Energy & Sustainability

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BGIS is a leading provider of customized facility management and real estate services. With our combined team of over 6,500 globally, we relentlessly focus on enabling innovation through the services we deliver, while actively looking for new opportunities that will enable innovation for our clients’ businesses. Globally, we manage over 320 million square feet of client portfolios across 30,000+ locations in North America, Europe, Middle East, Australia and Asia.

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Director, Energy & Sustainability is responsible for the ongoing development, management and delivery of a real estate portfolio Energy & Sustainability program for a client account. Accountabilities include business development, client relationship management, employee staffing, success communication at an executive level, and ongoing financial management of their assigned Energy & Sustainability program. Additional responsibilities include the development, management, and implementation of a portfolio-wide Sustainability & Energy Management Plan for the client portfolio.

The candidate will work closely with real‑estate executives, energy managers, and potentially facility managers, maintenance supervisors, project specialist, finance, contractors, consultants, and client teams. The candidate will require technical expertise in the following areas:

• Energy and sustainability strategies.
• Energy markets, utility rate structures, energy performance contracts.
• Energy analytics.
• Building operations including data centers.
• Building conservation and demand management.
• Conducting building energy assessment and energy efficiency measure development.
• Ability to manage programs from concept inception to implementation and validation.
• Decarbonization, GHG protocol and Net Zero.

• Acts as the primary client interface for the assigned account. Client representatives with whom this position typically interacts with are at the executive, director and manager level.
• Develops and builds effective relationships with clients and ensures client satisfaction.
• Manages client expectations with respect to scope definition of energy & sustainability related services contained within the master services agreement.
• Conducts regular meetings with clients to understand and anticipate needs.
• Provides feedback to internal stakeholders on potential offerings for assigned account(s).
• Recommends and sells additional services based on understanding of clients’ needs.
• Work with entire BGIS Team to understand energy and sustainability client issues, challenges and opportunities and to facilitate, propose and deliver innovative solutions.
• Deliver on client deliverables, strategies and execution plans to achieve various targets and metrics (energy, water, emissions, waste, etc.)
• Collaborate with other BGIS Lines of Business to develop effective joint efforts or leverage other LOB resources and/or initiatives to promote Energy & Sustainability solutions for our clients.
• Manage client perception of E&S Services as reflected in Customer Satisfaction KPIs.

• Develops and executes energy and sustainability strategies and program to support the client in achieving their goals. Includes influencing goals based on best practices.
• Be the clients SME for all things Energy and Sustainability.
• Develop and implement energy and sustainability programs, required business cases (ROI, NPV).
• Deliver regular energy and sustainability reporting based on the services contained in the master services agreement. Including the support of Power BI dashboards and data accuracy.
• Communicate project successes to help reinforce value driven by the team.
• Project manages and collaborates with relevant stakeholders to deliver services and to ensure service level agreements and key performance indicators are achieved.
• Deliver annual energy and sustainability plans in conjunction with the capital plan to deliver on energy and sustainability targets.
• Conducts regular meetings with clients to solicit performance feedback and identify areas for improvement.

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