Job Description
RE Tech Advisors, a Legence company
RE Tech Advisors is a growing, woman-led consulting firm of over 125 ESG professionals. We deliver results at the intersection of engineering, technology, and sustainability. RE Tech has a progressive and ambitious client base that includes numerous commercial real estate portfolios, private equity investors, federal agencies, industry associations, and manufacturing companies. By joining the RE Tech Advisors team, you will work closely with recognized industry leaders who are driving national and global sustainability initiatives providing you the opportunity to realize your own professional growth objectives in the ESG arena.
Summary Description
This role is responsible for leading a team of data analysts and ensuring that the data they produce is accurate, relevant, and actionable. They work with stakeholders to understand their needs and use data to make informed decisions.
Essential Job Functions / Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Perform day-to-day client, program, and people management for the Data Analytics Team.
- Manage project execution, staff allocations, and capacity tooling across the Data Analytics team.
- Manage applicable service and product offerings to ensure scope and profitability of work.
- Manage the successful completion of client work (reports, analysis, dashboards, etc.) to ensure work is delivered on time, on budget, and is technically sound, factually accurate, and ensuring overall client satisfaction.
- Manage the supervision of the data submission, technical processes. and ongoing improvements of reports to national and global reporting organizations, such as GRESB, United Nations Principles of Responsible Property Investing, Carbon Disclosure Project, and ENERGY STAR.
- Collaborate across practice areas and with client managers to ensure RE Tech works across teams to meet the needs of clients and to deliver and execute robust ESG and climate programs.
- Identify the need for and the opportunity to create, standardize, and/or improve processes and work products to maximize efficiency.
- Perform all people management responsibilities including hiring, performance reviews, coaching, identifying staffing needs, and fostering an inclusive & positive team culture.
- Develop processes to ensure appropriate skill building and development for new hires and existing team members.
- Lead by example, establish best in class standards.
- Technical Leadership
- Drive decision-making regarding RE Tech data architecture, models, tools, & processes with the intent of improving Data Analytics efficiencies, quality, and breadth of deliverables.
- Provide oversight & direction for designing and deploying data pipelines & workflows, collaborating with the team on automating such workflows in a cloud computing environment, and creating multi-dimensional data models and structures for analysis and dashboard/report development.
- Manage the development of new statistical approaches, models, and other analytical tools to further strengthen RE Techs ability to document, examine, and communicate our clients performance.
- Project manages innovation projects that the data team executes.
- Manage the design, development, and deployment of interactive reports and dashboards with BI tools such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools.
- Manage quality control processes for complex data sets and identify issues or anomalies in accuracy, completeness, reliability, and timeliness.
- Support new service offerings and work to enhance current service offerings to implement growth opportunities for the data team.
- Collaborate with RE Tech ESG project managers, practice areas and clients to identify project requirements and design cost effective, data-driven solutions.
- Properly and accurately track all your time worked and expenses. Input on time in the expense and time keeping system, billing to the correct codes, and using the correct labor categories.
- Know and follow company policies and processes.
- Perform all other duties as needed and assigned.
Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Possess a growth mindset seeking continuous improvement and supporting a culture of learning, growing, and improving as an individual, our team members, our business, and our client work.
- Ability to collaborate internally and externally to co-create successful outcomes.
- Analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities. Strong attention to detail in your work and work produced by more junior team members.
- Possess sound business ethics, including the protection of proprietary and confidential information.
- Ability to be flexible and adapt to a changing landscape and client needs, handle multiple time-sensitive priorities, excel in a fast-paced environment, and ability to pivot and adjust priorities and approaches.
- Ability to expertly manage up, down, and across the organization, as well as outside clients and vendors.
- Superior interpersonal skills including courtesy, professionalism, and a cooperative attitude. Ability to manage challenging interpersonal situations, including employee and client relationships.
- Strong written communication skills with a propensity to write in a clear, concise manner to convey points effectively, creatively, and with the appropriate tone and professionalism.
- Strong verbal communication skills to effectively interact with and build confidence with internal and external contacts, including public speaking.
- High degree of initiative, proactiveness, drive, enthusiasm, energy, and follow through.
- Advanced knowledge of data analytics best practices and methods regarding ETL, data wrangling, modeling, analytics, performance tuning and visualizations.
- Advanced knowledge of analytics tools such as Python, SQL, Alteryx, Tableau, PowerBI, etc.
- Advanced knowledge with online collaboration and file sharing tools, such as SharePoint and the Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams).
Required Education and/or Experience
- Minimum of 7 years of direct professional experience in data analytics and visualization in a consulting environment.
- Minimum of 2 years of people management experience, preferably in a consulting environment.
- Demonstrated skills in researching, analyzing, managing, and reporting KPIs and metrics for a diverse set of audiences, preferably in the energy and sustainability industry (financial energy consumption, water use, waste management, greenhouse gas emissions, etc.).
- Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritize workload and manage competing priorities.
- Demonstrated skills and knowledge in data pipelines, models, and visualization best practices, techniques, and tools.
- Experience supporting sustainability, ESG, energy and/or decarbonization programs is a plus.
- Experience with Jira is a plus.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Travel Requirements
Periodic travel is required for the role. Travel may include travel to RE Tech offices, if remote, or between RE Tech offices (Fairfax VA and Dallas, Texas) for meetings (estimate of four times per year), as well as for Legence and/or client business needs.
Additional Requirements
In compliance with Federal law and the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 22.1800, the selected candidate will be required to provide documentation that will verify their identity and eligibility to work in the United States.
No sponsorship available for this position.
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Health and Welfare Benefits
- Health and Welfare
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Prescription drug
- Employee assistance program
- Maternity and parental leave
Personal Benefits
- Paid vacation
- Company-paid holidays
- Volunteer time off
- Flexible/hybrid work schedule
- Annual professional development fund
- Voting leave
Financial Benefits
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Company-paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Life insurance
- One-time home office bonus
Office perks
- Snacks, coffee and Bevi drink machine
- Regular social activities
- Free on-site parking
- Free on-site gym (Tysons Corner, Virginia office)
- Dog friendly office (Dallas, Texas office)
- Metro accessible office (Tysons Corner, Virginia office, Silver Line)
About Legence
Legence, a Blackstone portfolio company, is an Energy Transition Accelerator that provides advisory services and implementation focused on financing, designing, building, and servicing complex systems in mission-critical and high performance facilities. With five decades of expertise in the built environment, Legence has a proven track record of reducing carbon emissions, implementing renewables, lowering utility costs through efficiency consumption, and making systems run better at unmatched speed and scale. To learn more about Legence and its services, visit https://www.wearelegence.com/.
Contingent Employment Statement
Offers of employment for this role may be contingent upon successfully passing a background check and/or drug screen. Execution of screens will vary based on role requirements and Company policy. All background checks and drug screens will be done in accordance with applicable federal, state, or local law.
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