Senior Manager Sustainability

About Mace Group

Mace Group combines construction expertise with consultancy services to enhance projects and redefine ambition. The company's values guide its approach and define the professionals it seeks to join its team. This role offers an opportunity to work on a significant program in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, involving major mixed-use development, including sports facilities, entertainment, arts, and associated infrastructure. Mace is a delivery partner for this project, seeking experienced professionals to lead integrated teams.

The Role: Senior Manager - Sustainability

The Senior Manager - Sustainability will manage sustainability initiatives across the commercial offices business unit, translating strategic vision into investment-ready office assets. This part-time position requires over 10 years of experience and involves providing expert guidance throughout design and delivery phases, coordinating multidisciplinary consultants, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and sustainability standards. The role also focuses on driving value engineering, performance, engaging senior stakeholders, and continuously improving technical, smart-building, and sustainability standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Champion safety, ensuring compliance with HSE standards and fostering a positive safety culture.
• Manage end-to-end project delivery, maintaining quality systems and supporting senior leaders in achieving program milestones.
• Oversee budgets, risks, and ethical governance, contributing to long-term business sustainability.
• Lead collaborative project teams, driving performance, stakeholder engagement, and innovation across all project phases.
• Manage sustainability input across design, procurement, commercial, risk, and technical interfaces.
• Manage consultant deliverables, ensuring compliance with project briefs, regulations, and sustainability standards.
• Coordinate stakeholders, manage design risks, and report progress against agreed milestones.
• Support design managers in coordination with external consultants through design stages, ensuring conformity to project objectives and providing recommendations.
• Review outputs of design consultants, including related design documentation, to ensure compliance with project requirements and strategy.
• Manage coordination and collaboration between development, delivery, construction, consultants, contractors, and authorities to identify design risks early and propose mitigating strategies.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in sustainability or a related discipline. A master's degree is an advantage.
• Professional registration in the respective discipline (*, Chartered Engineer) or PMP certification is an advantage.
• Expert knowledge of local and international design standards, codes, and regulations.
• Previous KSA/Middle East experience is preferred.
• Proven track record delivering BCO Grade A/investment-grade office towers or business park products from concept to handover.
• Strong command of design review processes, authority approval pathways, and international best practice in commercial office design.
• Major program experience, including managing multiple projects, conflicting priorities, and stakeholders.

Required Skills

• Excellent stakeholder management and executive presentation skills, with comfort operating in a fast-paced, giga-project delivery environment.
• Ability to support teams through periods of business change.
• Strategic oversight and guidance in managing and prioritizing workload, with a deadline-driven approach and ability to optimize tasks.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English to articulate ideas, strategies, and project performance, and to influence at senior levels.
• In-depth knowledge of enterprise-level digital design solutions and applications.
• Strong leadership skills to inspire diverse teams and deliver results.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to lead the function's direction, endorsing or opposing practices as needed.

Work Environment

Mace is an inclusive employer that welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. The company is open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options where suitable for the role. Candidates who may not meet all criteria are still encouraged to apply.