Consultant - Sustainability

Currie And Brown; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

About The Role

Currie & Brown is one of the leading international physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation and reputation with a genuine global office network.

Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management make our business what it is today. Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and have fun along the way.

The role - what is it we would like you to do?

A fantastic opportunity for an experienced Sustainability Consultant to join our specialist advisory team. This is a new role and will further grow the team's capacity to provide sustainability and net zero advisory services to major clients. As an experienced and driven professional, this role will enable you to take the lead on client projects and make a difference. The team delivers sustainable solutions and drives whole life value for clients across sectors and are seeing particular growth in sustainability workstreams in the healthcare and higher education sectors.

Your core duties will involve:

1. Develop sustainability strategies and frameworks for major projects and programmes and work collaboratively with clients and technical teams to implement.
2. Support Currie & Brown project teams in enhancing the sustainability performance of core services through targeted project reviews and recommendations.
3. Help deliver decarbonisation projects for existing assets and estates.
4. Develop expertise in core sectors which might include Health, Higher Education, Transport Infrastructure or Technology.
5. Produce high quality technical outputs including reports and presentations.
6. Winning work through supporting and drafting proposals and attending key industry events.
7. Taking responsibility for project finances and resource management.
8. Manage client relationships, including development of potential clients and partners.
9. Help in the development of Currie & Brown capability including training and resources for European business to help them shape and meet client expectations.
10. Participate in internal and external initiatives aimed at accelerating the adoption of zero carbon standards across the built environment.

What skills and attributes are we looking for from you:

1. Bachelor of Science degree in any discipline.
2. Evidence of strong quantitative and research skills, e.g. post graduate qualification or degree in STEM discipline.
3. +3 years' experience including as a lead project manager in a consultancy or client role.
4. Some consultancy experience including management of projects and profitability.
5. Exposure / knowledge of Currie & Brown core sectors including Health, Higher Education, Infrastructure and Technology.
6. Excellent knowledge of zero carbon and the technical / practical / commercial aspects associated with this goal.
7. Knowledge of the policy environment for sustainable buildings and construction.
8. Understanding of the development and construction sectors including key stages and processes involved in the delivery of major projects and programmes.
9. Experience working with and influencing project teams towards successful project outcomes.
10. Knowledge of services engineering, building physics, capital and lifecycle cost analysis and construction practices would be beneficial.
11. Skilled in use of Microsoft Excel and ability to learn other software such as Power BI, OneClick etc.
12. BIM / digital design / financial or economic modelling knowledge would be welcomed.

Soft skills required:

1. Demonstrates persuasive communication skills and the ability to influence key stakeholders by leveraging relationships and resources.
2. Ability to provide compelling and insightful reports and presentations.
3. Proactive and collaborative approach and resilience in overcoming obstacles and adapting to challenges.
4. Passionate about helping clients make good decisions and create a fantastic built environment.
5. Able to review information quickly and efficiently, making decisions using an appropriate mix of analysis and judgement.
6. Proactive attitude, keen to learn, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, diligent, flexible and commercially astute with presentation skills.
7. Energetic and dynamic, capable of delivering to plan but also able to react flexibly to changing circumstances.
8. Can apply a structured approach to problem solving.
9. Comfortable leading and working in teams and networking as well as working on own initiative.
10. Ability to work to overlapping deadlines, delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner.
11. Be a cooperative team member who shares knowledge and skills, applies industry best practice to all commissions and learns from mistakes.
12. Able to introduce innovative approaches that can be used to improve performance, reduce costs, increase quality and improve business processes, and provide clear rationale and supporting data to justify solutions.

About Us

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people's futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage - providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.

We don't offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.

We are an international industry leader - Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world's most prestigious projects and for some of the world's top clients.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be fundamental in creating a successful workforce.

We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.