Senior Sustainability Manager

Mace is seeking a Senior Sustainability Manager in Dubai to lead client sustainability strategies focused on climate change and social value. The role includes delivering measurable outcomes, achieving commercial targets, and managing a team. Candidates should possess excellent communication skills and a relevant degree. Mace values safety, client focus, integrity, and opportunity for growth, and promotes innovation in sustainability practices.
Position status: We are growing our team in 2025. Please get in touch if you would like to hear about working with Mace.

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities, and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.

Within our consult business we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project.

Our values shape the way we consult, and define the people we want to join us on our journey, they are:
• Safety first - Going home safe and well 
• Client focus - Deliver on our promise 
• Integrity - Always do the right thing
• Create opportunity for our people to excel

You’ll be responsible for:
• Accountable for service excellence, delivering purpose-led and measurable outcomes for clients, with particular focus on climate change, social value, and biodiversity.
• Leads the development of client climate change, sustainability and/or social value strategies on individual projects, including agreeing project outcomes and ensuring their delivery by the project team.
• Delivers commercial revenue targets aligned to the project/programme plan, requiring the translation of project/programme objectives into deliverable strategies, leading to a sustainable business for Mace in the sector.
• Supports work winning through bid support, innovation, client liaison, upskilling of colleagues and external profile-raising of Mace/Mace services.
• Provides technical expertise and promotes innovation in a particular area of sustainability, such as waste, energy/carbon, water, responsible sourcing of materials, sustainable buildings, etc.
• Represents the company and clients in a public forum, attending internal and external events to represent and raise the profile of Mace and the practice group.
• Leads and manages team, and champion career development such that they have the opportunity to work to the best of their potential in a safe and supportive environment.
• Supports the contribution of the delivery of the business strategy priorities and corporate targets, in particular, awareness of the carbon metrics of sector projects, while driving an increase in the sector’s carbon handprint (ie project level carbon savings).
• Shares knowledge and insights from the sector, including project case studies and thought leadership.
• Works collaboratively towards the common goal of net zero carbon transition and share responsibility for the proactive identification and management of the associated carbon emissions and reductions during the delivery of work.

You’ll need to have:
• Relevant degree qualification.
• Excellent communication skills.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates.

Please remember the Employee Referral Scheme and if there are any talented people you can recommend, just click the button and use the ‘Refer a friend’ feature found within the relevant job.