Ben Flint
With over 20 years of recruitment experience, Ben is a strategic leader at Acre, specialising in executive search across EMEA. He focuses on placing Sustainability, ESG, and Health & Safety experts into the Built Environment, Real Estate, and related sectors, ensuring top talent drives meaningful transformation.
Ben has a strong track record of building high-performing teams and successfully delivering on complex, hard-to-fill mandates. His expertise lies in connecting senior and executive professionals with opportunities that foster sustainable growth and innovation. Passionate about driving impact, he helps organisations secure leaders who shape the future of their industries.
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Estate Energy Manager
Professional Services
London, Greater London, England
Hybrid
Acre is delighted to be supporting a leading real estate organisation with the recruitment of an Estate Energy Manager to oversee and optimise energy operations across a high-profile mixed-use estate in London.
This is a pivotal role, with responsibility for ensuring the cost-effective procurement, accurate tenant billing, and overall performance of the estate-wide energy infrastructure – while contributing to the broader sustainability ambitions of the business.
As part of a collaborative and forward-thinking operational team, the successful candidate will lead efforts to drive energy efficiency, monitor utility usage, and identify optimisation opportunities through data analysis, stakeholder engagement, and industry best practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the energy operations across the estate, with a strong focus on utility procurement, metering infrastructure, monitoring, and accurate tenant rebilling.
- Oversee the deployment and optimisation of technologies to support accurate data collection, validation, and cost allocation.
- Support and improve processes for occupier billing in collaboration with the finance team.
- Conduct regular audits and analysis of energy consumption across the estate to drive cost savings and carbon reductions.
- Define, monitor, and report on energy-related KPIs, contributing to estate-wide sustainability and performance targets.
- Support compliance with regulatory frameworks and energy-related accreditations (e.g. NABERS), ensuring the business is aligned with best practices.
- Prepare internal and external sustainability and performance reports, using insights to engage stakeholders and shape future strategy.
- Facilitate collaborative working groups with tenants and service providers, driving collective action on energy performance.
- Act as the primary point of contact for energy-related queries, and represent the estate in engagement with industry bodies, energy advisors, and government agencies.
About You
- Experience in energy management, ideally within real estate or mixed-use developments, with a strong understanding of UK energy regulations and sustainability frameworks.
- Proven track record in utility procurement, metering systems, energy cost allocation and performance reporting.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills – able to translate complex energy data into accessible insights.
- Analytical and financially literate, with confidence managing budgets and investment cases related to sustainability.
- Familiar with tools and platforms for energy data monitoring, reporting and compliance tracking.
- Experience with energy certification schemes such as NABERS is advantageous.
- Self-starter with a problem-solving mindset and the ability to build positive working relationships across departments and occupiers
This is an exciting opportunity to be at the heart of one of London’s most iconic destinations, shaping the energy and sustainability strategy across a diverse and ambitious estate. If you're driven by impact, performance, and collaboration – we’d love to hear from you.
Please apply directly or reach out to Ben Flint at ben.flint@acre.com for more information.
