Building Sustainability, Ontario Market Lead

• Full-time
• Sector Name:
  Buildings
• Employee Type:
  Regular
• Compensation: CAD 125,440 - CAD 172,480 - yearly

Welcome to a place where people are at the heart of everything we do.

Welcome to people with an inspiring vision and who seek stimulating challenges. At CIMA+, you’ll find a place where you’ll have many opportunities to learn and develop while working on engaging projects.

We are a firm 100% owned by its employees and we value a collaborative and entrepreneurial mindset. You will have the flexibility to manage your work on your own terms and define what work-life balance means to you.

When you join CIMA+, we welcome you to a place that you can call home.

CIMA+’s Buildings team is recognized across Canada for designing high-quality, energy-efficient, and resilient buildings that prioritize occupant comfort and long-term performance. Our portfolio includes award-winning projects and some of the country’s most complex high-performance buildings. To continue delivering exceptional value to our clients, we have established a national team of sustainability specialists dedicated to supporting high-performance and low-carbon projects across Canada.

We are seeking a Building Sustainability, Ontario Market Lead to grow and lead our sustainability advisory practice in Ontario. This role is primarily client facing and market focused, with accountability for building relationships, shaping opportunities, leading pursuits, and positioning CIMA+ as a trusted advisor for building performance, decarbonization, and resilience strategies. The role works closely with our Ontario Buildings leadership and our national sustainability team to convert market demand into scalable services and consistent delivery and will collaborate closely with national sustainability leads and regional sustainability leads across Canada to align strategy, share expertise, and scale delivery.

The successful candidate brings a strong Ontario client network, proven business development capability, excellent facilitation and communication skills, and enough technical depth to lead executive level conversations and guide multidisciplinary teams toward measurable outcomes. This role can be based in our Toronto, Mississauga, Markham or Bowmanville offices in a hybrid model (2 days /week in the office).

• Own the Ontario market growth plan for building sustainability services and deliver annual sales targets
• Build and maintain senior level client relationships across developers, owners, institutions, utilities, and public sector clients
• Identify and qualify opportunities, lead pursuit strategy, and direct proposal development in collaboration with internal teams
• Lead client meetings and executive presentations that connect technical solutions to value, risk reduction, and return on investment
• Represent CIMA+ through industry presence, speaking opportunities, partner relationships, and targeted thought leadership

• Work closely with national sustainability leads and regional sustainability leads to align service offerings, share best practices, and coordinate delivery
• Partner with other regions to support multi market clients and pursue national opportunities with consistent positioning and technical approach
• Contribute to national practice development, including tools, templates, quality standards, and knowledge sharing

• Provide strategic direction and senior oversight for building performance analysis, operational carbon, and decarbonization roadmaps for new and existing buildings
• Guide project teams on energy and carbon targets, EUI strategy, electrification pathways, and retrofit prioritization
• Provide senior review of energy modeling and GHG analysis approaches for alignment with NECB, Ontario requirements, and project goals
• Lead advisory conversations on whole building life cycle assessment, embodied carbon reduction, and life cycle cost considerations
• Support climate risk, vulnerability, and resilience assessments and help clients translate findings into actionable measures