Location London
Job-type Permanent
Salary £Competitive
Reference BBBH14064_1628071517

Are you a purpose driven sustainability professional seeking to make a significant contribution to the global real estate sector? Verco is working in partnership with Acre to hire a new Head of Report for Zero, who will play an instrumental role in helping clients achieve their net zero ambitions.

About Verco:

Verco has a proven track record of over 30 years in business. Having recently secured their third Business Green Consultancy of year, Verco as an employee owned, certified B-Corp and achieving net zero emissions in their operations, Verco well and truly practice what they preach.

With a diverse portfolio of clients from a wide variety of sectors, Verco have been able to drive and deliver impact, and this is now an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to develop their own footprint within the purpose driven business.

The Role:

The role provides a technical and knowledge focus in a service that is required by clients, to create more efficient, replicable products and to ensure those products are marketed, sold and then delivered to a high standard. The role requires deep industry knowledge and understanding of the changing role of ESG reporting and clear insight of emerging trends, and ability to evolve the existing service offer, working with other members of the senior management team.

You will also be responsible with managing members of the delivery team giving full visibility of workflow, utilisation, performance and development needs.

The Reporting for Zero services covered by this role include:

  • Delivery of large environmental reporting and performance programmes for real estate clients

  • Strategic advice around industry reporting initiatives including GRESB, INREV, EPRA, REEB, etc.

  • Delivery of compliance with specific climate change regulation e.g. SECR, EU Taxonomy, etc.

You will also be expected to carry out normal consultancy duties, including project management/direction, client management, proposal writing and project delivery.

About You:

  • A working knowledge of the real estate market and a passion for sustainability

  • A natural leader with experience of developing high value service offerings and internal teams

  • Demonstrable success in developing business and building successful relationships with key clients

  • Exceptional knowledge of future development and trends in the sector

  • The ability to effectively communicate with and influence external stakeholders and senior business leaders

This is an exciting time to join a company experiencing rapid growth, with the opportunity to hone both commercial and technical acumen and impact the global carbon movement. If you have the desire and experience to drive the global sustainability agenda within the real estate sector then please apply below or contact Jack Porter via jack.porter@acre.com.