Ruth Smith

Acre is delighted to be partnering with a highly regarded and globally recognised consumer brand group with a diverse portfolio of companies. With an iconic reputation, this organisation champions innovation, purpose-driven leadership, and progressive sustainability goals. They are now seeking a Sustainability Manager – Carbon to join their London-based team and play a central role in advancing their carbon and environmental data strategy.

About the Role

This is a data-focused sustainability role, working within the strategic finance team and reporting to the Head of Finance for Strategic Finance Initiatives, with a dotted line to the Sustainability Director. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading on carbon data analytics, modelling, and reporting across the group and its affiliated companies. This work is pivotal in achieving the organisation’s net zero ambitions and providing insight into the future impact of today’s business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead data collection and analysis of scope 1, 2 & 3 emissions across the group, ensuring alignment with GHG Protocol.

• Build carbon models, support science-based targets (SBTs), and develop carbon budgets.

• Partner with business units to create scenario analyses, identify abatement opportunities, and influence strategy.

• Own and support the use of specialist carbon data software (e.g. Diligent), and champion its use across affiliated businesses.

• Provide insight into advanced carbon metrics including marginal abatement cost curves and shadow pricing.

• Support assurance and compliance activities, including SECR, ESOS, TPT, and upcoming ISSB-aligned disclosures.

• Contribute to lifecycle assessments and reporting on the environmental impact of key investment and operational decisions.

About You

• Proven experience in carbon accounting and data analytics, ideally within a corporate or consultancy environment.

• Strong technical understanding of GHG reporting frameworks and climate-related disclosures.

• Proficiency in scenario analysis, Excel modelling, and sustainability software tools.

• Adept at stakeholder engagement, working across multiple business units and functions.

• Professionally qualified or experienced in carbon accounting or sustainability data (e.g. qualified management accountant, sustainability analyst, carbon specialist).

• A collaborative, inquisitive mindset with a desire to drive systemic change.

Why Join?

This is an exceptional opportunity to shape a world-class sustainability data function within a forward-thinking organisation. You will be empowered to innovate, work alongside passionate experts, and contribute meaningfully to a bold climate strategy embedded at the heart of business decision-making.

Please contact Ruth.Smith@acre.com with any questions.

This role is London based on a hybrid working model. 

Acre is delighted to be supporting a leading real estate organisation with the recruitment of an Estate Energy Manager to oversee and optimise energy operations across a new, flagship high-profile mixed-use estate in London.

This is a pivotal role, with responsibility for ensuring the cost-effective procurement, accurate tenant billing, and overall performance of the estate-wide energy infrastructure – while contributing to the broader sustainability ambitions of the business.

As part of a collaborative and forward-thinking operational team, the successful candidate will lead efforts to drive energy efficiency, monitor utility usage, and identify optimisation opportunities through data analysis, stakeholder engagement, and industry best practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the energy operations across the estate, with a strong focus on utility procurement, metering infrastructure, monitoring, and accurate tenant rebilling.
• Oversee the deployment and optimisation of technologies to support accurate data collection, validation, and cost allocation.
• Support and improve processes for occupier billing in collaboration with the finance team.
• Conduct regular audits and analysis of energy consumption across the estate to drive cost savings and carbon reductions.
• Define, monitor, and report on energy-related KPIs, contributing to estate-wide sustainability and performance targets.
• Support compliance with regulatory frameworks and energy-related accreditations (e.g. NABERS), ensuring the business is aligned with best practices.
• Prepare internal and external sustainability and performance reports, using insights to engage stakeholders and shape future strategy.
• Facilitate collaborative working groups with tenants and service providers, driving collective action on energy performance.
• Act as the primary point of contact for energy-related queries, and represent the estate in engagement with industry bodies, energy advisors, and government agencies.

About You

• Experience in energy management, ideally within real estate or mixed-use developments, with a strong understanding of UK energy regulations and sustainability frameworks.
• Proven track record in utility procurement, metering systems, energy cost allocation and performance reporting.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills – able to translate complex energy data into accessible insights.
• Analytical and financially literate, with confidence managing budgets and investment cases related to sustainability.
• Familiar with tools and platforms for energy data monitoring, reporting and compliance tracking.
• Experience with energy certification schemes such as NABERS is advantageous.
• Self-starter with a problem-solving mindset and the ability to build positive working relationships across departments and occupiers

This is an exciting opportunity to be at the heart of one of London’s new and most iconic destinations, shaping the energy and sustainability strategy across a diverse and ambitious estate. If you're driven by impact, performance, and collaboration – we’d love to hear from you.

Please apply directly or reach out to Ruth.Smith@acre.com for more information.

Are you working in health & safety because you want to make a difference? Do you have a desire to create meaningful change and be part of a well-performing team?

This organisation, a national residential developer, knows that its future must be a safe and sustainable one. Day to day, you'll be putting your experience and expertise into setting realistic and meaningful health & safety objectives. You'll work closely with regional leadership teams to ensure a collective vision that extends beyond systems and compliance to focus on people and behaviour, helping to create a positively reinforced learning culture.

You'll be joining an excellent team, and as the HSE Business Partner for the North East region, you will be:

• A confident and experienced influencer - You'll be the functional H&S lead on all developments in the North-East region, responsible for embedding continuous improvement into the company strategy and engaging with the senior leadership team.

• Organised and happy to be hands-on - You'll work closely with the regional leadership teams to ensure H&S is a key factor in the lifecycle of a development, from design through to completion.

• Commercially aware - You will be making sure that you're positioning the business in line with local partners and their H&S objectives.

• An innovator - You'll thrive on new ideas and challenging traditional methods of working. You'll win the hearts and minds of a variety of stakeholders, both internally and externally, to ensure operational teams take accountability and ownership of H&S performance.

The organisation's aim is simple: to deliver more of the high-quality, multi-tenure, new homes the UK needs - at prices people can afford, in places where they want to live.

This business is delighted to have achieved 5-star builder status in the National Home Builders Federation (HBF) Awards. This is only awarded to homebuilders who receive a rating of at least 90% in the National New Homes Customer Satisfaction Survey- demonstrating the commitment to a high quality service.

In terms of experience:

• It's important that you have experience working in a HSE function and ideally understanding of the construction sector.

• If you can demonstrate that you'll able to build relationships at every level, that will go a long way.

• Some creativity and evidence of collaboratively solving problems in your current health & safety role is welcome.

You will be based in the North East of England, ideally within Newcastle, Sunderland, Hartlepool, Durham, Darlington, Middlesbrough, Hebburn, or surrounding areas, and there will be 10 developments in your region. That will mean some driving, so a license is essential!

If this has piqued your interest, get in touch with Ruth Smith on ruth.smith@acre.com to discuss the role. Don't worry if your CV isn't ready yet - we can work with what you've got.