Senior Sustainability Consultant

JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way. 

Our people at JLL and JLL Technologies are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward. 

Job Title: Sustainability Senior Consultant

About JLL

We’re JLL—a leading professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. We have operations in over 80 countries and a workforce of over 98,000 individuals around the world who help real estate owners, occupiers and investors achieve their business ambitions. As a global Fortune 500 company, we have an inherent responsibility to drive sustainability and corporate social responsibility. That’s why we’re committed to our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world.

Our sustainability consulting activity at JLL is a leading and fast-growing business, looking at hiring the most talented people in our industry, passionate about sustainability, with a consulting and entrepreneurial mindset that can help to lead our strategic clients along their sustainability journey. If you’re looking to step up your career, join us at JLL

Role Purpose

We are looking for a Sustainability Senior Consultant who will lead sustainability engagement with large and high-profile clients predominantly investors, property companies and global companies occupying real estate. The Sustainability Senior Consultant will support clients in defining compelling visions, creating leading sustainability strategies, building action plans and partnering with the rest our JLL sustainability professionals to assist in implementing and bringing plans to life.

Career Level Definition

At this level requires specialized depth and/or breadth of sustainability expertise, consulting experience with C-Level exposure, recommends best practices, solves complex problems, takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions, works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations. May lead unit teams.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Business Development – Engage with assigned clients, including investors, developers and occupiers of property and develop client relationships. Works with sustainability product team & delivery colleagues to build winning pitches and proposal to address sustainability opportunities and drive business growth.
• Consulting Delivery – Lead the development of client sustainability consulting mission including facilitating executive/elected official level presentations. Coordinate work with other sustainability specialists and multi-disciplinary team such as valuation experts or project developers to assist clients tackle various aspects of a client’s sustainability journey. This can involve creating project plans, delegating tasks and deliverables to colleagues, and providing ultimate oversight and review of deliverables.
• Sustainability Offering – Support the business and sustainability teams to develop and extend existing mandates on a range of sustainability issues, from strategy to implementation, reporting, compliance and emerging services (eg. biodiversity and the circular economy) to increase the breadth of sustainability offering available to clients.
• Ethics – Understand the organisations behavioural, moral, ethical and compliance standards & requirements, adhere to and demonstrate highest regard to these in all situations when interacting with customers, clients and colleagues

To apply you need to be/have:

• Relevant work experience in the sustainability and/or consultancy
• Strategic individual with customer centric mindset
• Specialist knowledge in sustainability
• Strong communication skills, with track record of working with Senior / C-Level stakeholders in client organisations.
• Excellent project management skills, ability to take ownership of client deliverable, to ensure alignment of multiple internal stakeholders and to meet deadlines
• Strong problem-solving skills and ideally experience developing holistic solutions in a business context
• Excellent team-working, and ability to contribute towards a positive team dynamic
• Some experience undertaking materiality / strategy reviews – preferable but not essential
• Some experience working with Real Estate investors or occupiers – preferable but not essential
• Excellent computer and information system skills; in particular Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

What You Can Expect From Us

You’ll join an entrepreneurial, inclusive culture. One where we succeed together – across the desk and around the globe. Where like-minded people work naturally together to achieve great things.

As a diverse and inclusive employer, JLL strives to contribute to the lasting values for clients, employees, shareholders, communities and our industry. Everything we do today should work towards Building a Better Tomorrow. Click here to learn more about JLL’s D&I commitment

Our Total Rewards program reflects our commitment to helping you achieve your ambitions in career, recognition, wellbeing, benefits and pay. We’ll offer you a competitive salary and benefits package.

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements below. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

Contact: Juliette Medana

Email: [email protected]

Location:

On-site –Paris, FRA

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

JLL Privacy Notice

Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading global provider of real estate and investment management services. We take our responsibility to protect the personal information provided to us seriously. Generally the personal information we collect from you are for the purposes of processing in connection with JLL’s recruitment process. We endeavour to keep your personal information secure with appropriate level of security and keep for as long as we need it for legitimate business or legal reasons. We will then delete it safely and securely.

For more information about how JLL processes your personal data, please view our Candidate Privacy Statement.

For additional details please see our career site pages for each country.

For candidates in the United States, please see a full copy of our Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action policy here.

Jones Lang LaSalle (“JLL”) is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process – including the online application and/or overall selection process – you may contact us at Accommodation Requests. This email is only to request an accommodation. Please direct any other general recruiting inquiries to our Contact Us page > I want to work for JLL.

Read Full Description