Associate EV Solutions Sustainability

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EV and Integrated Energy Solutions – Sustainability Associate Director

About JLL and Sustainability Consulting Services

Our Team, Sustainability Consulting Services, is the UK sustainability consultancy practice within JLL, the global professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. We use our leading sustainability expertise to support, challenge and inspire our people and clients within the real estate sector to create a prosperous economy, a flourishing society and a healthy environment. You can see our track record and our ambitions at: http://transformingrealestate.jll.co.uk/. The opportunity to work with us will provide you with exposure to high-profile clients and highly engaging and supportive colleagues.

If you’re looking to step up your career, JLL is the perfect professional home. As a Fortune 500 company, working across 80 countries, in 280 different offices, with a team of over 80,000 individuals, and overlooking on behalf of our clients a real-estate portfolio of over 4 bn square feet, the firm helps organizations around the world achieve their ambitions by owning, occupying and investing in real estate. 

At JLL, you’ll have a chance to innovate with the world’s leading businesses, put that expertise into action on landmark projects, and work on game-changing real estate initiatives. You’ll also make long-lasting professional connections through sharing different perspectives, and you’ll be inspired by the best. We’re focused on opportunity and want to help you make the most of yours. Achieve your ambitions – join us at JLL.

We are looking for an Associate Director for the new EV & Integrated Energy Solutions EMEA product line within the Sustainability Consulting Services Business line.

Our services begin with helping clients to define compelling visions, create leading strategies and develop challenging targets. We then partners with our clients through implementation, ensuring that the vision and strategies that were developed are realised in their intent through world class implementation and risk management.

To support our team’s ambitions, we are looking to make a new hire at Associate Director level, to be part of our team. 

Working with high profile clients, this job will provide you the opportunity to develop and implement integrated energy solutions in the real estate space. This will include onsite power generation, storage and distribution and applying these to EV charging solutions and fleet electrification programs. The role will involve developing and delivering strategies to:

• deploy EV charging services for investors/landlords and tenant/occupiers in residential, workplace and retail use cases, and
• electrify (high utilisation) commercial fleets of tenants/occupiers in industrial & logistics
• deploy local decarbonized power generation, in combination with distribution and potentially storage,
• make compelling investment cases and developing pragmatic, cost effective and scalable solutions for stakeholders

In addition, you will leverage the experience gained in implementing and operating these technologies and services to advice investors and portfolio managers in assessing the investment potential of integrated energy solutions deployment in their portfolio of assets.

To achieve this you will also work together with colleagues from Energy Services, Project Delivery Services, Facility Management Services and Valuations Services.

Our expectation is that you are as passionate about sustainability, renewable energy generation, distribution and storage technologies and applying them to the electrification of land transport as we are; that you are committed to always exceeding your clients’ expectations and that you are able to demonstrate your excellent strategic thinking, team-working, communication, analytical and project management skills.

What this job involves

The role will entail winning and delivering projects to design and implement integrated energy and EV charging strategies/policies for owners and occupiers in retail, workplace, residential and logistics asset classes. This includes:

• Business development of Integrated Energy Solutions services, growing the offering and client base
• Contribution to continuous reporting and measurement of project metrics and to the development of internal systems
• Project management of the delivery of client projects, ensuring a professional relationship and the effective delivery of sustainability services to time and budget
• Building strong working relationships with client sustainability teams
• Being able to sensitively challenge clients, through providing insights, future trends, and articulating the value of sustainability to businesses, with an understanding of future value creation.
• Oversight of team members in the development and delivery of strategic and implementation projects
• Working in a rigorous manner to deliver accurate, high quality, engaging and client-ready outputs
• Contributing to Sustainability Consultancy’s information and knowledge management systems
• Supporting the professional development of junior colleagues, including line management opportunities

Sound like you? To apply you need to be/have:

• Passionate about sustainability, and specifically about Electric Vehicles, electricity markets, microgrids, decarbonized power generation and storage and related technologies
• Relevant academic degree and/or masters or equivalent work experience – e.g. science, technology and engineering with significant exposure to commercial decision making
• Proven track record and minimum 10 years of experience in developing and implementing ambitious business improvement, innovation, and/or technology implementation strategies and programmes either from a consultancy or in-house perspective
• Experience in developing and implementing EV charging services and/or fleet electrification programmes with ideally a consultancy background is preferred, but not a must
• Exceptional communication skills, with an ability to network and build strong client and internal relationships
• Exceptional project management experience
• Strong problem-solving skills and ideally experience developing holistic solutions in a business context
• Excellent team-working, and ability to mentor, manage and inspire your colleagues
• Flexible, hard-working and able to multi-task with ability to work to tight deadlines
• Excellent computer and information system skills; in particular Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

What you can expect from us

You’ll join an entrepreneurial, inclusive culture. One where we succeed together – across the desk and around the globe. Where like-minded people work naturally together to achieve great things.

As a diverse and inclusive employer, JLL strives to contribute to the lasting values for clients, employees, shareholders, communities and our industry. Everything we do today should work towards Building a Better Tomorrow. Click here to learn more about JLL’s D&I commitment

Our Total Rewards program reflects our commitment to helping you achieve your ambitions in career, recognition, wellbeing, benefits and pay. We’ll offer you a competitive salary and benefits package.

Join us to develop your strengths and enjoy a fulfilling career full of varied experiences. Keep those ambitions in sights and imagine where JLL can take you…

Location:

On-site –London, GBR

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all the requirements. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table! If you require any changes to the application process, please email [email protected] or call +44 (0)20 7493 4933 to contact one of our team members to discuss how to best support you throughout the process. Please note, the contact details provided are to discuss or request for adjustments to be made to the hiring process. Please direct any other general recruiting inquiries to our Contact Us page > I want to work for JLL.

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