Manager - Energy - Carbon technology
Reporting to: Senior Manager / Data
Data Team
Competitive salary range
Hybrid 2/3 days in office 5 Merchant Square, Paddington, London
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. With the business growing rapidly, driven by demand from existing clients and new business, Considerate Group has identified the need for an Energy and Low Carbon specialist to support the rapidly growing business line within the company.
A growing number of Considerate s clients require technical support focused on building technology, systems, and fabric, including recommendations for operational changes and capex investments. Sitting within Considerate s Data Team and reporting to the Senior Manager Data, this role will support the delivery of high-quality products, services, and strategic projects with a focus on technical delivery and product development as well as supporting clients with ongoing resource consumption data analyses, using client-facing and in-house tools. Key to the role is effective communication coupled with a technical mindset and the ability to build trust and rapport with existing and prospective clients, partners, and the team. Having relevant expertise in assessing building energy, preferably in the hospitality sector, the candidate will coordinate and lead the development of carbon reduction and energy consumption management initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Delivery (40%)
- Deliver energy and net-zero assessments and other technical services for hospitality clients as part of the Data Team, predominantly across Europe (periodic short-trips required)
- Provide bespoke financial, engineering, and asset level decarbonisation analyses reports with actionable recommendations
- Analyse carbon, energy, and resource consumption data from buildings and operations to assess and benchmark performance
- Develop costed energy and carbon efficiency recommendations, scenarios, and pathways based on state-of-the-art interventions and in alignment with long-term client investment strategies
- Assist in client management activities for Considerate s data platform, Con-Serve, e.g. onboarding, demos, support, data uploads, reporting, data feed integration
- Support the Data Team in developing, implementing, and documenting reproducible data pipelines and reports
- Deliver high-quality internal and client-facing outputs
- Support proposal and bid writing activities
- Understand Considerate s broader business proposition and portfolio of services
Project Management (20%)
- Develop detailed project plans
- Ensuring resource availability and allocation remains within the scope of works and on budget
- Tracking project performance and analysing the successful completion of short- and long-term goals
- Leading a team through a project, with good communication and instruction
Relationship Building (20%)
- Develop and maintain client and technical partner relationships
- Engage with third party providers to enhance the delivery of data services to our clients
- As part of a team with a relatively flat reporting structure, support colleagues at all levels as needed to ensure effective client/project delivery
- Lead by example in the regular and dedicated use of Considerate Group s internal CRM system
Innovation and product development (10%)
- Contribute to the development of advanced, internal energy and carbon models, working assumptions, and the catalogue of reduction measures
- Use internal and client-facing data management tools for identifying types of data, data quality considerations, data sources, and reporting
- Provide support to the scoping of strategic projects and solutions for clients, including development of new solutions, products, and services
- Keep on top of developments in the real estate and hospitality landscape, especially technological and industry developments (as well as political, legislative, market and voluntary market developments)
Business Development (10%)
- Building business through relationship and business development of existing clients
- Actively identifying opportunities for offering energy and low-carbon assessment and related services to existing and prospective clients
Management Skills
- Proven ability to lead a team effectively while valuing individual contributions
- Coach, develop and maximise the talents within your project teams
- Act as a mentor and coach, offering regular feedback to others
- Positively provide support to junior team members when filtering down Senior Management information.
- Bridge communication between senior management and junior team members, ensuring alignment and understanding
To be successful in this role you will need to be qualified:
A Level 6 or higher degree in a relevant technical, science, or engineering field or equivalent experience in technical facility operations.
Ideally a minimum of three years' work-based experience in building facilities, technology assessment engineering, including technical knowledge of building services, HVAC equipment, low carbon technologies, and typical arrangements.
Understanding of design stage, construction, and in use stages to provide advice to clients on effective and beneficial routes to achieve sustainability targets.
Desired Skills but not essential
Other languages than English
Direct experience working in real estate or in hospitality operations and/or project management
Experience with BREEAM, LEED, WELL, and similar reporting and certification schemes
Registered CIBS low Carbon Energy Assessor (LCEA) or Low Carbon Consultant (LCC)
BMS, building automation and controls experience
Experience performing technical due diligence or systems commissioning
Ability to use advanced data analysis and visualisation tools, such as R (tidyverse, ggplot)
The Person
Analytical Skills:
- Able to analyse detailed data and trends, look at new data and keep up with the ever-changing technological landscape
Personality:
- Demonstrate a passion for data, ESG and sustainability
- Motivator and moral booster
- Natural leader and good presenter
- Responds well to criticism, and sticks with a brief, refining it when it doesn t go to plan
- Strategic thinker
- Proactive self-starter who can manage a complex workload.
- Diplomatic, convincing, confident, can-do attitude
- A leader AND a doer, be prepared to throw in with your team, roll up your sleeves and demonstrate your own talents when needed.
Perks of the job
- Health Shield hospital cash plan
- Health Shield 24 hr Counselling support
- Working abroad for up to 2 weeks a year
- 25 days holiday + loyalty bonus 1 additional day per year
- Volunteering days
- Work from home equipment allowance
- Complimentary stays in client hotels
- Ethical pension scheme
- Hybrid working 2/3 days a week from home
- Discretionary Annual bonus
- Team activities
- Quarterly Staff Awards scheme
Company Background
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion statement and our people pledge
Don t meet every single requirement? Research shows that women, people of colour and under privileged individuals are less likely than others to apply if they don t match 100% of the job requirements. Don t let the confidence gap stand in your way, we d love to hear from you! We understand that experience comes in many difference forms and are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team.
Considerate Group is committed to providing an equitable, inclusive, and diverse work-environment. We are committed to an environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals and in which HR processes are merit-based and applied without discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, or other protected characteristics. We believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas allow us to better understand the needs and interests of our diverse, global community with who we work. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives and are an equal opportunities employer.
Sustainability
We are B Corp accredited and progressing through our 1st re-certification after 3 years. As a company we have voluntarily met rigorous standards of environmental, social and governance benchmarks, concentrating on the culture we create for our workers and the local community whilst ensuring our people have a great place to work.
We want to be part of movement of businesses, balancing people, planet, and profit.
We run a dedicated award scheme for all our employees. We pride ourselves on recruiting the best people and if you like the sound of the role, and Considerate Group we d love to hear from you.
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