Expert in Sustainable Procurement & Circular Economy

Expert in sustainable procurement & circular economy Leading real estate player in Suisse romande, Retraites Populaires manages a significant portfolio composed of its own buildings and assets managed for partner institutions. In a context of portfolio growth, proactive renovation, and increased sustainability requirements, the institution has recently established a Sustainability Division attached to the Real Estate Domain. To structure practices and make procurement, reuse, and resource management genuine levers of environmental and patrimonial performance, Retraites Populaires has mandated us to search for its future Expert in sustainable procurement & circular economy A job creation to build a sustainable, concrete, and economically sound approach Your responsibilities Within a small team, you contribute to translating sustainability ambitions into concrete, measurable, and economically relevant actions within the framework of real estate projects. You carry out an inventory of existing practices in the different services, identify needs and priority areas for improvement, and then participate in defining a pragmatic and operational roadmap. Your priority is to structure a sustainable procurement policy applied to the Real Estate Domain, with a direct impact on material choices, reuse, and resource management. You develop the necessary criteria, tools, indicators, and processes to support project managers, mandatories, companies, and suppliers in their decision-making. You also set up pilot projects, with the aim of testing, measuring, and then generalizing good practices before deploying them on a portfolio scale. You thus contribute to laying the foundations for a structured and reproducible approach, which can be extended to other areas of the institution. Your profile You have significant experience in real estate renovation, ideally acquired with a large property owner or real estate asset manager. You master the life cycle of a building, its operational constraints, and the challenges of enhancing the portfolio. Aware of sustainability issues, you know how to integrate notions of reuse, circular economy, grey energy, and sustainable materials into a concrete and structured approach. You are able to promote and justify these choices with solid economic arguments, taking into account CAPEX/OPEX trade-offs, operating costs, regulatory risks, and long-term value creation. Pragmatic, credible, and with excellent interpersonal skills, you interact with varied stakeholders and know how to federate and convince without having direct hierarchical authority. Holder of a higher education degree in construction, environmental engineering, construction economics, or an equivalent field, you have completed your career with significant training related to sustainability. jpid865a83ajm jpit0728jm jpiy26jm