Sustainability Lead

Mace is seeking a Sustainability Lead in Dubai, UAE, to drive service excellence focused on climate change, social value, and biodiversity. Responsibilities include meeting commercial targets, leading strategic direction, maintaining client relationships, and ensuring project alignment with business goals. Candidates should possess a relevant degree and strong communication skills. Mace emphasizes safety, client focus, integrity, and opportunity for growth within its team.
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:
• Accountability for service excellence, delivering purpose-led and measurable outcomes for clients, with particular focus on climate change, social value, and biodiversity.
• Delivery of commercial revenue targets aligned to the annual business plan, requiring the translation of business plan objectives into deliverable strategies, leading to profitable and sustainable business for Mace in this sector.
• Accountability for work winning and bid/no-bid decision making (in collaboration with relevant stakeholders), including maintaining awareness of strategic client pipelines and RFPs.
• Understands client drivers and what good looks like in the sector, collaborating with other responsible business sector leads and service offer leads to bring service offers to new and existing clients.
• Provides leadership and strategic direction to the sector, including developing an integrated service offer to support the Mace project management, cost & commercial management, programme management, and business advisory (centres of excellence) service offers.
• Reports responsible business bids using the practice group business development tracker and Mace Infomace Prospects system and keep this up to date to reflect any changes.
• Forms and maintains strong, senior working relationships at the highest levels in client organisations as well as across Mace, the responsible business practice group, and our partners, while managing the priorities of the sector and practice group.
• 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.
• Ensures projects are suitably resourced with the necessary competencies, alongside forward planning and proactive recruitment to support sector pipeline and growth.
• Champions the sector’s contribution to 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.

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