Group Environmental and Climate Action Manager

About the role

Bonava, a leading European residential developer with 900 employees across Germany, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, is looking for a Group Environmental and Climate Action Manager for its ESG team. The role leads the expert group where sustainability managers from the business units coordinate their work and follow up on progress towards their own 2030 targets. It is based at Bonava's head office in Stockholm, with travel to the business units for in-person expert group meetings.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the expert group's meetings and develop its ways of working so business units share knowledge and propose improvements
• Turn the ESG Council's direction into action plans, Group-wide methodology and guidelines
• Follow up quarterly on commitments in the 2030 emission reduction plans, and cover climate adaptation, energy, biodiversity and resource use
• Own the Group's environmental data for the sustainability report, including quality assurance and the environmental parts of the double materiality assessment
• Develop the Group's climate and environmental methodology (SBTi, GHG, LCA) in line with new frameworks and regulations

Required profile

• A degree in sustainability, environment, energy, engineering or another relevant field
• Several years of professional experience with environmental and climate work in a Nordic context
• Professional-level English, spoken and written
• Pragmatic, flexible, independent and able to build relationships and explain things clearly

Required skills

• Technical understanding of greenhouse gas accounting under the GHG Protocol and life cycle assessments
• Experience driving emission reduction initiatives from target setting to reporting
• Merits: construction or real estate background, hands-on LCA experience, environmental data management and coordination in a decentralised or international setting; Swedish, German, Finnish or a Baltic language

What we offer

• Full-time position with a market-based salary
• 30 days of annual leave, reduced working hours, wellness allowance, parental pay top-up, sick pay and lunch benefit
• Hybrid working possible depending on the needs of the business and team
• Start date by agreement, before 31 March 2027