Senior Manager - Sustainability

Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition. Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey.

This is an opportunity to work on one of the largest programmes in Saudi Arabia. This unique project consists of major mixed-use development including sports facilities, entertainment, and arts along with all associated infrastructure.

Mace is one of the delivery partners requiring high-calibre and experienced professionals to lead integrated teams throughout each phase of the project.

Manage sustainability across the commercial offices business unit, translating vision into investment-ready office assets. Provide expert guidance throughout design and delivery, coordinate multidisciplinary consultants, ensure regulatory and sustainability compliance, drive value engineering and performance, engage senior stakeholders, and continuously improve technical, smart-building and sustainability standards.

• Champion safety first, ensuring compliance with HSE standards while fostering wellbeing, inclusion and a positive safety culture.
• Manage end-to-end project delivery, maintaining quality systems and supporting senior leaders to achieve programme milestones.
• Oversee budgets, risks and ethical governance, contributing to long-term business sustainability.
• Lead collaborative project teams, driving performance, stakeholder engagement and best practice innovation across all phases.
• Oversee safety, wellbeing and leadership values, fostering a collaborative, accountable, high-performing culture.
• Manage sustainability input across design, procurement, commercial, risk and technical interfaces.
• Manage consultant deliverables, ensuring compliance with project briefs, regulations and sustainability standards.
• Coordinate stakeholders, manage design risks and report progress against agreed milestones.
• Supports the design managers in coordination with external consultants through design stages ensuring conformity to the project stated objectives, in line with stage gate approval process, and provides recommendations.
• Reviews outputs of design consultants, including related design documentation, to ensure compliance with all project requirements and strategy, project, design and development briefs.
• Manages coordination and collaboration between development, delivery, construction, consultants, contractors and authorities to ensure early identification of design risk and proposal of mitigating strategies.

• Bachelor's degree in sustainability, or related discipline. A master's degree would be an advantage.
• Professional registration in the respective discipline (or similar – i.e. Chartered Engineer) would be an advantage Registration as a Project Management Professional (PMP) would be an advantage.
• 10–12+ years of sustainability management experience, including senior design leadership on large-scale commercial office or mixed-use developments.
• Experience in leading a design team to deliver to program, balancing competing requirements on project to deliver design outcome (e.g. cost v. time v. quality).
• Expert knowledge of local and international design standards, codes and regulations.
• Previous KSA/Middle East experience preferred
• Track record delivering BCO Grade A/investment-grade office towers or business park product from concept through to handover.
• Strong command of design review processes, authority approval pathways and international best practice in commercial office design.
• Experience managing multi-disciplinary international consultant teams (architecture, structure, MEP, facade, sustainability).
• Excellent stakeholder…