Sustainability Strategy Advisor

About the Role

The Sustainability Strategy Advisor – also termed Sustainability Strategy Lead – is responsible for delivering impactful environmental and sustainability services across key client accounts. Acting as the primary expert on sustainability initiatives, the role drives improvement programs, manages stakeholder relationships, and ensures projects achieve environmental targets and comply with relevant standards. In this role you will lead and coordinate sustainability improvement programmes, including environmental reporting and initiative management. You will identify and implement innovative environmental strategies, manage project delivery, budgets, timelines, and milestone reporting, and prepare reports that meet client and regulatory requirements. You will also liaise with industry bodies, government agencies and utility providers, and serve as the main sustainability contact for integrated facilities management clients while collaborating with internal teams to foster a culture of safety, learning and continuous improvement. • Lead and coordinate sustainability improvement programs, including environmental reporting. • Identify and implement innovative environmental improvement strategies. • Manage project delivery, budgets, timelines, and milestone reporting. • Prepare environmental reports that meet client and regulatory requirements. • Liaise with industry bodies, government agencies, and utility providers. • Serve as primary sustainability contact for integrated facilities management clients. • Collaborate with internal teams to promote safety, learning, and continuous improvement. • Build and maintain stakeholder relationships with excellent influencing skills. • Drive impactful sustainability work across high‑profile client portfolios.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸sustainability programs
• ▸environmental reporting
• ▸strategy development
• ▸project delivery
• ▸stakeholder management
• ▸client liaison

What You Bring

The ideal candidate possesses strong research, analytical and technical writing skills, and a solid understanding of environmental and energy legislation such as NGERS. You should be a self‑starter with sound judgment, excellent relationship‑building and stakeholder management abilities, and strong planning, organisational and presentation capabilities. Additional attributes include negotiation and influencing skills, basic commercial acumen, and the capacity to work autonomously. • Demonstrate strong research, analytical, and technical writing abilities. • Apply knowledge of environmental/energy legislation such as NGERS. • Exhibit strong planning, organisational, and presentation capabilities. • Negotiate effectively and possess basic commercial acumen. • Thrive in a collaborative, innovative, and integrity‑focused culture.

Requirements

• ▸research
• ▸analytical
• ▸technical writing
• ▸ngers
• ▸negotiation
• ▸commercial acumen

Benefits

Joining Cushman & Wakefield offers the chance to drive real change in sustainability across high‑profile client portfolios. Employees benefit from professional growth through global learning and development programs, a collaborative culture that values innovation and integrity, and flexibility to lead initiatives and shape strategies. The company also provides recognition, progression opportunities, and a supportive environment that champions sustainability. • Access professional growth through global learning and development programs. • Pursue recognition and career progression in a sustainability‑focused firm.

Work Environment

Hybrid