Senior Manager, Sustainability

As our client base continues to grow, Considerate Group is looking for an experienced Senior Manager for our sustainability consultancy business, to help shape and manage the growth of the business and our team.
Reporting to the COO, this role will support the management and high-quality delivery of Considerate’s products, services, and strategic projects in the hospitality and tourism sectors across multiple European and international jurisdictions.
In addition to providing leadership for our consultancy offering, coordinating the activities of Considerate Group’s team and providing quality assurance, the role will require the scoping and oversight of consultancy projects, including the development and implementation of client ESG strategies. Direct reports will include Managers and other team members.
Key to the role will be an ability to develop relationships quickly and easily both internally and externally, demonstrating maturity and calmness when handling clients and delivering challenging projects.

Job title: Senior Manager, Sustainability
Company: Considerate Group
Duration: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Location: London, UK* *You must be eligible to work in the UK
Line Manager: Managing Director
Salary: Competitive depending on the experience
Other benefits: Access to benefits including: annual bonus scheme, pension contribution, flexibility to work from home 2 / 3 days per week, flexibility to work from ‘anywhere in the world’ for up to 10 days per year, volunteering days, 25 days annual leave (+ additional days based on length of service), structured training and development package, HealthShield wellbeing package, access to complementary stays in client hotels

Responsibilities

Leadership, coordination and delivery of consultancy projects

• Take a leading role in the oversight, coordination, and delivery of a collection of advisory projects which may range in scope from environmental, resource consumption data analysis, and compiling carbon reports to delivering workshops or writing ESG policies for individual clients.
• Provide support to the scoping of strategic projects and solutions for clients
• Timely delivery and oversight of professional, high-quality output from the team into client work packages
• Quality-assurance of work-stream outputs

Delivery of engaging webinars and workshops

• Design and deliver virtual webinars as well as face to face workshops
• Actively promote and represent Considerate Group at industry events

Relationship building

• Develop and maintain client relationships
• Ability to negotiate contracts with clients
• Support colleagues at all levels to ensure effective client/project delivery
• Matrix management of team members to ensure smooth project delivery
• Line management of Managers and junior team members

Innovation

• Keep abreast of sustainability and hospitality landscape, including scientific and industry developments (as well as political, legislative, market and voluntary market developments)
• Deliver entrepreneurial advice/product development activities to further develop Considerate’s offering

Business Development

• Will receive a revenue target to support proposals, contract renewals, upsell and cross-selling

Requirements

Required experience & interests

• At least five years of work-based experience in sustainability, either as a consultant or in-house corporate sustainability professional
• Technical skills to include one or more of the following:
• Climate change
• Supply chain
• Smart buildings
• Energy efficiency
• Regulatory frameworks (EU taxonomy, GRESB, UN Global Compact, ..)
• Extensive experience in project and people management and/or supervision
• Experienced in business development
• Strong knowledge of legal, regulatory and market developments
• Passionate about sustainability

Essential skills

• Fluent professional written and spoken English
• Highly organised and pro-active project management skills, with an ability to work to tight deadlines
• Excellent presentation skills
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to explain complex ideas in simple terms
• Strong presentation and workshop delivery skills; able to present ideas in a proficient manner suited to different settings and a variety of audiences
• Excellent attention to detail; confident quality assuring own and others’ work
• Adaptable with ability to learn and quickly understand new concepts outside area of expertise
• Highly customer service orientated with strong business/commercial acumen
• Self-driven and reliable

Desirable skills and experience

• Fluent in one of the following languages: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Spanish
• Experience in conducting broader ESG, CSR or sustainability audits
• Understanding of technological/operational interventions designed to meet carbon reduction strategies
• Experience in BREEAM or LEED certification
• Direct experience working in hospitality operations and/or management

Company Background

Considerate’s mission is to help hospitality businesses become measurably and inspiringly more sustainable. We achieve this through a combination of innovative technology, advisory services, and first-class customer service.

Through our sophisticated environmental data management system designed specifically for the hospitality sector, we allow hospitality businesses to monitor, analyse and improve their environmental performance, while saving costs and reducing inefficiencies in their operations. Con-Serve™ is certified as ISO 50001 compliant and allows for a correlation of consumption to other metrics such as hotel’s occupancy, restaurant’s food covers or outside temperatures. We have also been developing a complementary mobile app, fluttr, as part of an innovation competition funded by the UK Government.

Considerate Group provides data-driven advisory services to the hospitality sector, covering the environmental, social and governance dimensions of sustainability. This includes, but is not limited to, developing holistic ESG strategies, delivering workshops and professional seminars, creating sustainability toolkits and corporate sustainability reporting.

We are a growing team of dedicated hospitality and sustainability specialists, currently operating out of London, Munich and New York, servicing clients worldwide.

Apply

• Send your CV and a cover letter to Kate Orszulik at info@considerategroup.com (use the subject: ‘Application – Senior Manager, Sustainability’) by 1st March 2023. The cover letter should set out how you fulfil the requirements of the role and your salary expectations.
• Shortlisted applicants will be invited to complete a short task, before being invited to attend an interview.