Sustainability Consulting Leader

As part of Buro Happold’s continued investment into our Sustainability capability in India, we have developed this new leadership position to meet the growing demands for strategic sustainability consultancy at a policy, corporate and built environment level in the India market.

This role will see you occupying a critical leadership position within our India business and contributing to the growth and development of our Sustainability service offer more broadly, focussing on strategic advisory services within the corporate sector. Whilst you will have a mandate to grow the team in India,  you will also leverage the diverse range of expertise across our global practice (including specialists in building performance, well-being, social value, sustainable masterplanning, energy planning, retrofit, climate resilience, waste management, and more) to bring a fully integrated sustainability offering to the India market, shaping positive sustainability outcomes for a range of clients.

This is an opportunity to join a global community of sustainability practitioners, galvanising change and leveraging Buro Happold’s multi-faceted expertise to make a profound impact on sustainability outcomes in the India market.

This is a strategic role which will see you leading our Sustainability Consultancy offering in the India region focussing on advisory and consulting services for corporate clients (expected focus cities include Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Bangalore region). You’ll build on our success in other regions as a trusted sustainability advisor to bring a contextually-relevant and solutions-orientated Sustainability offer to the India market.

The focus will be on evolving ideas, creating business development strategies, leading and delivering projects, and team management. The project types may vary but will largely focus on setting strategies for improving the sustainability of our client’s business operations and assets (existing building portfolios, fleets, etc) of private-sector corporate, real estate and investor clients. Engagements are anticipated to be a mix of technical guidance (scope I-III carbon, energy, waste, health, etc.) and change management (aligning client internal culture and external groups with sustainability mission and best practices).

Whilst you’ll take advantage of deep and extensive expertise in the global practice (e.g. wellbeing, sustainable master planning, circular economy, building and energy performance, decarbonisation, climate change mitigation, climate resilience etc.), you will also have a mandate to recruit and grow expertise within India.

Your key focus areas will comprise the following;-

• Building on the success of our India business to date by introducing a complementary sustainability consultancy & advisory service to the region, with a focus on corporate and institutional clients – working with our market owners based in India
• Actively seeking out and securing new business streams which will lead to profitable work, both proximate and downstream to the immediate solution
• Leadership of a team, individuals, and input to the overall Global and India regional strategy for Sustainability
• Determined commitment to increasing the connections and integration between Buro Happold’s core disciplines (MEP, Structures, Cities and Facades) in India and globally and the sustainability consultancy offering, ensuring that we are able to offer a fully integrated, holistic approach to sustainability to our clients.
• Elevating the visibility and improving the positioning of Buro Happold as a provider of sustainability consultancy and advisory within the Asia region
• Active collaboration with the Global Sustainability Partner and sustainability teams elsewhere in the practice.

Requirements:-

You will be a recognised sustainability practitioner in the wider India region, with a track-record in advising high-value, strategic clients on their sustainability challenges.

We’d expect you to have established expertise and credibility in the sustainable development and Climate Change consulting space, with experience in business development and client relationship management. Crucially, this will include a technical aptitude and strong familiarity with sustainability topics, ESG, CSR and the built environment, however we are not expecting deep expertise in this regard.

It is likely that you will have begun your education and career within a technical context (e.g. engineering, architecture, planning) before moving into consulting organisations.

In general, our ideal candidate will demonstrate the following…

• You’ll be a leader in sustainability consultancy and have a track record of exceptional delivery over a sustained period within the industry, ideally with some international experience.
• Significant experience in a sustainability, corporate sustainability i.e. ESG and CSR related field. This is likely to encompass;

• • Interest or experience in corporate sustainability, the built environment, and organizational management.
  • Working experience of four or more of the following: ESG, CSR, IGBC, LEED, BREEAM, CDP, GRI, GRESB, SASB, GHG Protocol, SDGs
  • Knowledge of private-sector carbon accounting, Scopes I, II and III
  • Strong experience in built environment and corporate sustainability projects.

• An entrepreneurial attitude and desire to grow a sustainability consulting team, based upon work wins, is critical.
• Well networked in India and globally and able to demonstrate evidence of work-winning capability, particularly with respect to commercially-scalable sustainability solutions for corporate clients (e.g. ESG strategies).
• Experience of managing a team through growth;
• Ideally you will have an active presence in academic contexts – lecturing at universities and/or writing relevant papers, for example;
• Fluency (spoken and written) in English and relevant regional languages would be advantageous, but not essential.

Qualifications:-

• Masters in Sustainable, Environmental, Climate Change or related subject and Bachelor’s in Mechanical, Electrical, Civil Engineering or Architectural.
• Ideally professionally registered with a relevant body or institution.

Location:-

• Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Company Overview:-

Buro Happold is proud to be a practice of a diverse range of professionals that reflects the countries in which we operate.  In order to truly benefit from this diversity we must create an environment in which employees feel they can be themselves. Buro Happold actively promotes inclusivity across the practice to enable every individual to reach their full potential, feeling included is good for all of us. This begins with a fair and inclusive recruitment process which focuses on your skills, competencies and experiences in relation to the role. We recognise and are committed to change the lack of representation of minority groups in our industry, and particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic individuals, disabled people and women across all our offices. We understand that through collaboration, diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.