Job Description: Senior Consultant
About this role:
You are a project manager and account lead for the companies corporate clients, principally in manufacturing, retail and financial services. You manage the delivery of strategic consultancy services with a focus on climate-related disclosures and the organisational change aspects of net zero strategy. Core service areas include:
• Leading and assisting clients with climate disclosures (CDP, TCFD/ISSB, SECR).
• Helping clients navigate and prepare for emerging regulatory requirements, such as net zero
Transition Plans and EU Directive alignment (CSRD, CSDDD).
• Providing strategic advice and analytical services around wider climate-related needs such as GHG accounting, science based target setting, decarbonisation plans, communications and other ESG 1 related ambitions.
• Working alongside the technical teams to provide a holistic net zero support to clients e.g. considering the governance and organisational change aspects of net zero transition plans.
By engaging with a wide range of key stakeholders on a day-to-day basis, you play a key part in managing clients' sustainability risks and realising opportunities. You are also responsible for targeted business development and marketing activities.
How you contribute:
Account management: You maintain strong relationships with our existing Corporate clients and build new relationships to win further work including cross-selling the full range of services.
Project Management: You manage consultancy projects to ensure we deliver to clients on time, to quality and within agreed budgets. You manage the delivery of our clients' sustainability objectives and act as confident agent of change to help ensure they continue to be a market leaders in ESG.
Technical/regulatory input: You track the evolving requirements of mandatory and voluntary climate
1 related disclosures of relevance to corporate clients, such as CDP, TCFD/ISSB, Transition Plans
Business development and proposal writing: You identify opportunities for sales and business development, progressing these to written proposals to meet clients' needs and achieve sales targets.
Operational: You provide timely responses to operational needs including invoicing, reviews, project management information, time-sheeting, health & safety, etc.
Environmental: You contribute to sustainability targets and internal CSR team objectives when required.
What you bring:
Here are the key things you need to be able to demonstrate, plus some others that are great to have but not essential.
Education, Qualifications & Training
Essential:
- Degree (or equivalent) geography, economics, sciences, environmental, engineering or
equivalent and relevant areas demonstrating qualitative and quantitative skills.
Desirable:
- Masters/relevant post-graduate qualification
- Member of professional institution i.e. IEMA
- Project Management qualification i.e. APMP
Employment Experience
Essential:
Experience of:
- managing projects/programmes, project teams & delivering to deadlines
- key account management and new business development with clients
- corporate net zero strategy and climate disclosures.
Desirable:
Experience of:
- managing bids and bid teams and delivering proposals to deadlines
- policy & impact analysis from client perspective
- leading, facilitating & presenting at workshops, seminars and conferences
- advising clients on strategic risks and opportunities, such as policy impact assessments or risks and opportunity appraisals
- completing voluntary reporting submissions
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential:
- Wider sustainability issues and carbon management
- Emissions sources across large distributed value chains in particular scope 3 (upstream and
downstream emissions)
- Energy use in key sectors such as food and drink and retail
- Supporting SBT applications
- GHG reporting standards
- Understanding of UK and European energy and climate change policy frameworks.
Desirable:
- ISO 14001
- GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard
Skills / Competencies
Essential:
- Excellent programme and project management skills
- Sophisticated analytical approach
- Ability to work independently and creatively on challenging research problems
- Demonstrable proactive long-term approach; planning & organisational skills
- High level of competence in the use of IT, including Excel, Word & PowerPoint
- Strong communicator in both verbal and written formats, including messaging through
innovative and effective graphics and presentation of analysis
Desirable:
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Power BI and other Office 365 products
Other requirements & attributes
Essential:
- Willingness to occasionally travel nationally and potentially internationally
- Able to present a professional appearance to clients and partners
Desirable:
- Clean UK driving licence