Senior Sustainability Advisor

Location: City of London
Salary: £42K- £45K per Year
Contract: Permanent
Type: Full Time

About the role of the Senior Sustainability Advisor

The Senior Sustainability Advisor plays a key role in delivering sustainability ambitions across our projects and business operations. This role focuses on driving high technical standards, embedding sustainability into project delivery, and supporting our internal teams and supply chain to meet both company expectations and client requirements.

You will be working within the Sustainability Department and reporting to the Principal Sustainability Manager. The ideal candidate provides leadership, technical expertise, and strategic insight across priority areas, including BREEAM.

Responsibilities for Senior Sustainability Advisor

• Lead sustainability requirements across assigned projects, ensuring compliance with client expectations, planning conditions, and the company standards.
• Oversee BREEAM strategies, assessments, and delivery, ensuring robust evidence collection and early integration into design.
• Guide project teams on embodied carbon reduction, including LCA processes, materials selection, and A1-A5 reporting.
• Support delivery of circular economy principles, waste minimisation strategies, and materials resource efficiency.
• Lead social value delivery and reporting across projects, working closely with project teams and community partners.

Contribute to pre-construction activities, including developing sustainability strategies for bids and tenders.

The ideal candidate will have experience in most of the following areas:

• Embodied Carbon & Whole Life Carbon Assessments (Essential)
• Circular Economy principles & materials strategy (Essential)
• Net Zero strategy alignment (Desirable)
• Knowledge of ISO 14001 (Desirable) Experience working in a sustainability role within the construction industry.
• Strong technical knowledge of BREEAM and embodied carbon.
• Experience engaging with project teams, design teams, and subcontractors.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.

This role provides a unique opportunity to:

• Be part of a fast-growing organisation with strong sustainability ambitions.
• Play a central role in implementing the companies sustainability strategy across multiple projects.
• Influence project outcomes through embodied carbon reduction, BREEAM leadership, and sustainable design solutions.
• Develop internal capability across the business and supply chain.
• Support the advancement of carbon accounting practices within the organisation.
• Grow professionally within a department that is expanding and gaining strategic prominence.