Manager, Sustainability Consulting

About the Job

At JLL, we are driving sustainability through everything that we do. We are building up our Sustainability practice, to drive our end-to-end sustainability solutions in real estate, including: Client Solutions, Strategy Consulting, Performance & Design, and Operations.

This role is embedded in the Sustainability Strategy Consulting team, where you will work with our clients to help them think through their sustainability strategies, including what reporting they require and what certification they need.

You will deliver green building consulting services, Facilitate LEED/ IGBC/ Green Star, review energy simulation, meet clients and prospective clients to present consulting services offered by JLL, provide advice and will be accountable for delivering income for our business. Work in this career pathway typically does not require an engineering degree as you will be involved in providing non-engineering related sustainability consulting. The role requires a passion for sustainability and gives professional the opportunity to develop their careers as a Sustainability / ESG consultant.

Reporting to

Head of Sustainability Consulting, West Asia

Duties & responsibilities

What this job involves

This role aims to work with JLL s global and local occupier and investor clients to deliver upon their Sustainability ambitions. This role is customer facing, Executive facing, and team oriented. The role will be centred around the following key elements:

Consulting work

• Work closely with Sustainability specialists team and perform gap assessments and facilitation work related to IGBC/ LEED/ Green Star Green Building Certification and WELL certification work
• Learn to get good at ESG and LCA studies addressing embodied carbon, net zero strategic consulting work
• Join client connections, pitches etc. to provide sustainability positioning and market differentiation
• Assist in managing the overall BD and sales process, maintaining regular contact with your stakeholders to keep pursuits moving ahead
• Create a pool of case studies, client success stories, testimonials, research and sales material which can be used in sales situations

Performance objectives

• Deliver Green Building and WELL certification projects independently
• Perform energy simulation using software tools like IES (Optional)
• Be a team player
• Get conversant with net zero and sustainability concepts to deliver ESG consulting assignments

Background and Experience

• 5 to 7 year s experience preferably IGBC / LEED accredited professional and WELL AP consulting work, sustainability consulting projects, green building projects, ESG services or in a related role.
• Management Experience

Sound like you Here are the skills we are looking for:

Technical Skills:

The job requires a basic level of understanding of,

NZC strategy

• Develops net zero carbon strategies suitable for application to varied client situations and circumstances.

Mechanical & Electrical Systems

• Understands mechanical and electrical equipment, controls, and systems used in all types of buildings.

Energy & Water Conservation

• Runs energy calculations and produce business cases for all energy and water conservation opportunities.

Energy & Water Data Analysis

• Consolidates energy and water data, analyze trends, set baselines, and identify anomalies and opportunities.

Energy Audits / RCx

• Identifies conservation opportunities, runs calculations, establishes payback, writes up reports, and explains to clients.

Energy Supply Side Solutions

• Understands supply side solutions, can explain their value, and is aware of the companies inside and outside of JLL who can deliver the services.

Alternative/Renewable Energy

• Understands renewable energy solutions available to clients, understands the renewable energy service JLL offers, and how we go to market.

Energy Modelling

• Understands how to build energy models aligned to past 24 months of recent energy consumption to meet the needs of the assignment. Includes use of IES software modelling

Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)

• Understands the impact of design elements on indoor air quality, comfort, lighting.

JLL Applications

• Understands and can utilize features of JLL's available energy management software applications.

Fault Detection & Diagnostic

• Understands how Fault Detection & Diagnostics systems operate, their purpose and value, and the challenges in deploying them. Knowledgeable of JLL's FD&D system and its advantages and disadvantages against its primary competition.

Smart Building / IoT

• Understands how to connect building systems to a smart building system, the challenges of connecting up disparate building systems, and the value of working in a smart building.

Building Systems Knowledge

• Understands the physical behaviour of a building as a system and how this impacts energy efficiency, durability, comfort and indoor air quality and how this impacts innovating high-performance buildings.

Electric Vehicles

• Understands EV infrastructure requirements, costs, and best practices.

Technical Writing

• Gathers and collates technical data, writes technical reports, produces documents to communicate technical evaluations and communicates information clearly and unambiguously.

CRE & Built Environment Basics

• Requires a general level of understanding, knowledge and skills relating to issues and priorities for corporate real estate and build environments.

Personal Skills:

The job requires a basic level of understanding of,

Active Listening

• Makes the effort to hear the words another person is saying and interpret & understand the complete message that is being communicated

Building Trust

• Interacts with people in ways that build confidence in one s intentions and those of the organisation as a whole

Client Orientation

• Helps or serves the client or customer, builds rapport, builds partnerships and maintains constructive & respectful relationships in order to anticipate, understand, meet & exceed their needs and maximise value creation.

Commercial Awareness

• Focuses on the bottom line and identifies opportunities that hold the most promise for additional sources of income or cost reduction.

Creativity & Innovation

• Uses imagination to create innovative & engaging products & solutions that challenge the status quo

Prioritisation

• Arranges activities in order of their importance, designates somethings more important than other things to meet delivery commitments

Relationships & Networks

• Builds rapport and maintains friendly, respectful relationships across the business & externally with stakeholders, customers & stakeholders

Solution Development

• Determines the best way of satisfying project or change goals, objectives & requirements

Teamwork & Collaboration

• Believes that by working together you can do better work than by working separately or competitively

Technology Adoption

• Understands how analytics & technology can be used to explain success, measure the effectiveness of activities and support decision making