Responsable de la Construction Durable/Responsible for Sustainable Construction

Paris, France

Permanent Contract

As one of the world’s largest real assets managers, and one of the major development manager in Europe, we believe that the decisions we make when investing and developing assets generate financial returns while contributing to a sustainable future, by minimising the environmental impact of our assets, protecting them against the effects of climate change and working collaboratively to unleash the transformative potential of our ingenuity. Our responsible investment strategy is built on three key pillars: Decarbonisation, Resilience, and Building Tomorrow.  The built environment contributes significantly to the world’s annual carbon emissions, giving us the opportunity to make an important contribution to decarbonisation. We are actively investing towards a low carbon future, be it through developing best-in-class real estate, or regenerating and transforming existing building stock worthy of a place in the low carbon future.

Real Estate Development Managers play a key role in achieving our responsible investment trategy and ensuring assets are developed and managed sustainably and deliver sustainable value. ESG is clearly embedded in each and every AMs responsibilities and represents a key priority for our assets.

The main responsibilities of the role:

The candidate’s key responsibilities will consist in supporting the local team of development in Europe in the deployment of our sustainable construction policy. Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Support deployment and monitoring of Development ESG policy:

• Coordinate with all local teams of Development in Europe to deploy the ESG construction policy, on all type of development project: light renovation, heavy renovation, new construction, on our different asset clases (office, residential, hotel, logistic, others),
• Structure or adjust the ESG construction policy and guidelines, to best market practice,
• Support the Pan-European Development Coordinator in deploying the ESG strategy at local level and among new geographies (like Australia) and platforms of development,
• Support and coordinate the deployment with local development management (DM) team across multiple workstreams, asset clases and initiatives (ex : GRESB reporting, building energy efficiency, solar panels, green procurement…).

Support the development of the local ESG expertise:

• Educate, train and support Development Managers on strategy / tools / processes, for sustainable construction,
• Deploy technical guidelines and tools and foster adoption,
• Support local teams to identify action plans of key properties and deploy best practices on development projects,
• Coordinate reporting and internal communication tools (ex : business cases, best practices),
• Review & co-ordinate ESG data collection, ensure data consistency and quality, with the Global ESG team.

Support ESG efforts with local internal and external stakeholders:

• Monitor service providers at local level in relation with local teams (energy managers, certification advisors, energy/environmental auditors, regulatory montoring...) and contribute to the selection of the new ones,
• Coordinate initiatives with external Development Managers (including awareness & monitoring of ESG targets),
• Liaise with Legal & Compliance teams to review and assess local laws and legal framework evolutions,
• Monitor industry evolution, benchmark competition, and contribute to interactions with external peers (according to seniority of the profile.

Nous nous engageons à vous offrir un environnement où vous pourrez :

Développez votre potentiel : Intégrer une entreprise engagée sur le développement de ses collaborateurs via une mobilité interne dynamique et une large offre de parcours de formation personnalisés.

Personnalisez votre manière de travailler : Travailler pour une entreprise qui s'engage à garantir flexibilité et équilibre à ses employés, en vous offrant une large gamme d'avantages (intéressement, télétravail, avantages sociaux compétitifs, etc.).

Epanouissez-vous par la diversité de notre communauté : Jouer un rôle au sein d'une entreprise inclusive qui reconnaît et valorise activement les différences individuelles dans un environnement de travail diversifié et inclusif.

Faites avancer le monde : Rejoindre un employeur responsable qui agit en faveur des causes sociétales et environnementales en tant qu'investisseur, assureur et entreprise, notamment au travers de l'association AXA Atout Cœur. Dans le cadre de notre engagement en faveur de la durabilité et de la responsabilité environnemental, nous célèbrerons votre arrivée en plantant un arbre.

Profil:

Education/Qualifications

• Master degree in Finance, Management, Engineering or Real Estate
• Sustainability focused diploma are favourable
• EPC, BREEAM or other rating schemes accredited would be a plus

Experience

• Min 4 years of experience
• Prior experience in the development activity with a strong focus on ESG department
• Good understanding on the real estate industry                
• Knowledge of global real estate sustainability standards and certification schemes
• Understanding of EU and local ESG regulations (ie. SFDR, Taxonomy, Loi Plage, Decret Tertiaire, etc) is considered a plus

Competencies

• Accomplished interpersonal skills, ability to work efficiently in a team in an international and matrix environment,
• Proven teamplayer,
• Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing,
• Autonomous, initiative, entrepreneurial and result driven culture,
• Ability to manage complex projects and multiple tasks in parallel,
• Strong analytical and synthesis capacity,
• Verbal and written communications and presentation skills,
• Creative thinking, capability to develop innovative solutions,
• Strong written and oral skills in English,
• Any other European language is considered a plus.