Sustainability Manager: Standing Portfolio (FTC)

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 listed business with a strong balance sheet and £15.2bn 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 latest engagement survey, 81% of colleagues said they are proud to work at British Land!

THE ROLE

The Sustainability Manager: Standing portfolio will be responsible for leading and implementing our sustainability strategy across our standing portfolio. The role will be focussed on operational performance at the asset level, supporting asset and property management teams in all aspects of sustainability management including the delivery of asset level decarbonisation pathways and wider sustainability KPIs.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Lead the coordination and delivery of corporate and asset specific targets in line with 2030 Strategy and our longer term Science Based Targets, with a focus on asset level decarbonisation, climate resilience planning, and nature outcomes.
• Operationalise British Land’s new Science Based Targets, embedding them into asset management and operational decision-making.
• Work closely with development colleagues to provide sustainability feedback from an operational perspective and to ensure development projects smoothly transition into the standing portfolio.
• Work as part of our Soft Landings approach to ensure standing assets perform as per design standards, with particular focus on operational performance and NABERS ratings.
• Work closely with leasing colleagues to ensure that green lease clauses and on floor decarbonisation measures are included in leasing agreements and subsequent fit outs.
• Project manage specific sustainability projects such as further solar PV installations.
• Work with supply chain to improve sustainability performance.
• Lead and coordinate compliance with current and forthcoming environmental legislation, including updates to MEES and the Heat and Network Regulations.
• Support customer and JV engagement across the standing portfolio, attending customer forums and presenting asset pathways/action plans as required.
• Support and maintain operational certifications and indices, including BREEAM In-Use and GRESB requirements.
• Responsible for supporting operational sustainability reporting and feeding into the Annual Report and Sustainability Accounts (including TCFD and TNFD disclosures).
• Identify AI use cases to lower costs and improve the efficiency of processes.

Management and collaboration

• Act as a sustainability expert to guide and support asset and property management teams through successful delivery of our 2030 Strategy and longer term SBTi targets.
• Engage and collaborate across business departments particularly with Property and Asset Management as well as Development colleagues to embed sustainability across the business.
• Assist Leasing and Marketing with customer engagement to ensure positive communication of sustainability across our portfolio.

Corporate and Industry Leadership

• Review government, local policy, industry guidance and commitments and where appropriate integrate into BL’s documentation.
• Represent BL in industry working groups specialising in embodied and operational carbon and other sustainability topics.

ABOUT YOU

• Leads and influences large teams to achieve outcomes for complex projects and successfully builds relationships across internal and external teams.
• Highly competent in carbon and energy accounting/modelling, engineering and operational building technologies.
• Ability to analyse data to inform decision making and present robust business cases for sustainability and energy projects.
• Excellent project and people management skills, good presenter with the ability to articulate complex topics in simple terms.
• Delivery focused with good organisation skills to manage multiple projects and varied teams at once.
• Good communication skills to articulate sustainability to a wide variety of stakeholders with varied understanding to ensure our business case and value is clearly presented.

Knowledge, experience and qualifications

• Significant experience in sustainability in the property and construction industry.
• Experience of sustainability frameworks including NABERS, CRREM, SBTi, Net Zero Carbon Building Standard, EPC and BREEAM In-use.
• Engineering experience with ability to review whole building M&E systems, experience of BMS and EMS systems.
• Experience in completing submissions to ESG benchmarks, such as CDP, DJSI and GRESB.
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams with the ability to quantify the impact of decisions from a cost and value perspective.
• Strong professional network and networking skills.

OUR SHARED VALUES

Our values are what we stand for at British Land; they connect us every day to our vision, purpose, and strategy. They help us to promote an inclusive, positive, and collaborative culture.

A REWARDING PLACE TO BE

Our People – Just ask anyone why they love working here and they will tell you it’s the people. They’re highly talented, passionate, and collaborative! We thank our people with rewards that feel rewarding.

OUR RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Please note that we endeavour to get back to all applicants within 28 days. If you haven’t heard from us within this period, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.