Principal Consultant

2 weeks ago


Watford, United Kingdom BRE Group (Building Research Establishment) Full time

**Why does this role exist?**

The BREEAM family of standards is globally applicable, offering sustainability assessment and

certification across the built environment. They draw together much of BRE’s work and have a

reputation in numerous sectors, across a range of lifecycles, for providing trusted verification and

benchmarking of assets’ performance.

The ‘Principal Consultant - Healthy buildings’ is responsible for providing scientifically led and

operation of the BREEAM product portfolio helping to ensure an appropriate level of rigour and

underpinning evidence. They are also responsible for the completion of technical services in line

with SLAs, delighting BREEAM’s customers and users, and ensuring assessments can continue

through to completion unencumbered.

Working in close collaboration with colleagues within BREEAM and the wider BRE Group, and

external stakeholders, they help balance commercial and technical relevance, and alignment with

other initiatives. This includes technical mapping and content production, being an ambassador for

BREEAM’s strategic direction and feeding back intelligence to inform the evolution of the

BREEAM product portfolio.

**Salary Range**
- £45,000 - £50,000

**City**
- Flexi Hybrid - Watford

**Employment Type**
- Full Time, Permanent

**Job Family**
- Product Management & Development

**Job Family Level**
- 3

**Closing Date**
- 30/06/2023

**Ref No**
- 1282

**The value this role will add**:
You will work closely with the Head of Delivery - BPS, other experts and wider BREEAM/BRE

divisions to successfully:
Lead the Health & Wellbeing core science team to ensure that the BREEAM portfolio of standards

are technically credible and delivering the relevant strategic objectives. This includes:

- Researching, developing and authoring new and/or revised technical content
- Thought leadership (e.g. published articles, workshops, webinars)
- Senior technical services support and technical query resolution
- Stakeholder engagement and collaboration, to understand current industry thinking and build consensus
- Represent BREEAM/BRE in key external groups, such as CEN and ISO committees, feeding back intelligence and cultivating external conditions for success.
- Managing the upkeep and evolution of the underpinning BREEAM science base, to ensure that product development is scientifically led.
- Monitor and uphold health, safety and wellbeing both personally and for all team members and any external visitors accountable to this role.
- Ownership of personal professional development, ensuring that mandatory training and competency requirements are maintained in addition to other professional development needs as required by the role.

**What skills, knowledge and behaviours does the role need?**

**Essential**:

- Educated to a degree level in a degree providing an understanding of health and wellbeing in the built environment
- Experience and knowledge of the built environment and real-estate
- Experience with Health & Wellbeing building rating systems (e.g. WELL, Fitwel)
- Experience in a senior role with demonstrable ability to work proactively and independently
- Excellent communication skills; an ability to understand and interpret customers’ needs and deliver a service and/or product which exceeds customers’ expectations.
- Can build effective relationships both internally and externally, be a brand ambassador for BRE.
- IT literate and extensive knowledge of MS office etc.
- Knowledge of BREEAM and/or the BRE business
- We’re building a diverse and talented team at BRE. We know that different perspectives, experiences and skills will help us be more innovative in delivering effective solutions for our customers._



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