Commercial Sustainability Lead – Leisure, Retail And Hospitality

Commercial Sustainability Lead – Leisure, Retail and Hospitality

Lewis Davey is recruiting for a Commercial Sustainability Lead – Leisure, Retail and Hospitality to join a global carbon-neutral, purpose-led organisation to lead and manage responsible business activities working with ambitious and outcome-focused clients and colleagues. This would suit someone with good generalist experience across property sectors and brings a strong commercial, business development/stakeholder engagement skills, along with carbon reduction knowledge. Someone with established leadership experience or wanting to step up.

Role Responsibilities

·       Managing service excellence and client satisfaction, delivering purpose-led and measurable outcomes for clients, with a particular focus on climate change, social value, and biodiversity.

·       Ensuring work winning and bid/no-bid decision-making in collaboration with other sector and practice group stakeholders.

·       Driving growth within the sector to meet commercial revenue targets aligned to the annual business plan, requiring the translation of business plan objectives into deliverable strategies, leading to a profitable and sustainable business for this sector.

·       Overseeing and having awareness of the financial performance of RB projects and services in the sector, ensuring commercial performance is in line with revenue, margin and utilisation targets.

·       Developing the industry thought leadership, hosting planned events and business-to-business networking forum(s) to support new business enquiries.

·       Maintaining and actively engaging in professional industry-wide network.

·       Directing workforce planning and ensuring projects are suitably resourced with the necessary competencies, alongside forward planning and proactive recruitment to support sector pipeline and growth.

What you’ll need to succeed

·       Relevant degree qualification.

·       Relevant membership of a professional body.

·       Demonstrable experience driving sustainability across the built environment in retail, hospitality or leisure markets, or in a similar market in the private sector.

·       Passion for sustainability and social value, and the ambition and drive to scale up the industry-leading responsible business outcomes our client delivers

·       Strong communication skills. Articulate and open and comfortable when representing the business and our clients in a public forum.

·       Ability to think big and view things from different perspectives, thinks strategically, simplifies concepts to solve or communicate complex problems.

·       Ability to drive change, lead others and adopt different solutions, act decisively with a passion to achieve results.

·       Ability to develop others by building relationships and sharing knowledge through collaboration, as well as upskilling and creating opportunity for colleagues and clients.

·       Collaboration skills. A strong leader, where integrity and motivational skills are essential, recognising that this is an industry and discipline in which collaborative arrangements and the co-location of project teams is the preferred way of working.

·       Familiarity with all stakeholders and their needs in the sector, and aware of all sustainability and social value challenges and opportunities.

·       Experience of managing relationships with key senior stakeholders.

·       Knowledge of how carbon and sustainability considerations will shape the outlook of the projects you are working on.

If you are looking to take that next step in your career and looking to develop professionally, then get in touch today for more information

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Lewis Davey specialise in recruiting talented people across Town Planning, Cleantech & Sustainability and Environmental industries.