Circular Economy Principal Consultant

Overview

Role: Circular Economy Principal Consultant

Location: UK Flexible

Role ID: 2023-1951

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

Are you passionate about sustainability and looking to make a meaningful impact in the fight against climate change?  We are seeking an experienced Circular Economy Principal Consultant to join our team and help our clients transition towards a more circular future.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

As a Circular Economy Principal Consultant, you'll have the opportunity to work with a wide range of clients, helping them develop and implement circular strategies.  Your expertise will be instrumental in guiding clients through the challenges and complexities of the circular economy.

We’d love to hear from you if you have the following competencies and experience:

• Practical career experience and be able to demonstrate relevant technical capability, effective project management and excellent communication skills.
• A Degree / Masters or equivalent experience in a related topic, or otherwise to have a good track record working in an environmental role.
• Ideally have experience of working in the consultancy sector, to demonstrate that you have the necessary commercial awareness, but we are also interested in hearing from candidates that are performing environmental roles directly within industry especially where they have a strong commercial awareness.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to drive consensus across a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Knowledge of current and upcoming regulatory trends and voluntary developments shaping the circular economy agenda.
• Experience of identifying and developing business opportunities and securing new projects and clients.
• Experience of working overseas is desirable and a willingness to support international projects is essential, including our priority regions of Europe, Middle East, North America and Asia.
• Effective management of staff; leading by example, supporting staff and inspiring them to achieve their best.

As an experienced circular economy principal consultant you need to have the following skills and behaviours:

• Excellent analytical skills with ability to identify, develop and implement solutions.
• Excellent writing skills to communicate clearly and without errors – accuracy and attention to detail are vital.
• Ability to review the work of more junior team members, providing constructive feedback and supporting development.
• Strong client and stakeholder communication skills (e.g. influencing, negotiation, presentation, relationship management).
• Ability to develop client propositions (e.g. understanding of client challenges and develop and propose suitable solutions).
• Ability to work autonomously and pro-actively.
• Team working and leadership, with an ability to coordinate and prioritise activities to ensure delivery of agreed targets.
• A flexible approach – able to see where help is needed and support colleagues as necessary.
• Be comfortable juggling a variety of tasks in a sometimes fast-paced international operational environment.

As an experienced circular economy principal consultant your main responsibilities would be:

• Leading, managing, and delivering circular economy projects.
• Undertaking a project management role, controlling budgets and timings, and allocating tasks to colleagues as required.
• Acting as client lead for key projects and managing client expectations.
• Managing staff within the circular economy team, monitoring workloads and the delivery of high quality outputs while supporting personal development.
• Leading and inputting your technical expertise to circular economy bids.
• Contributing to the evolution of Ricardo’s circular economy offerings by supporting the development of innovative client focused solutions.
• Ensuring appropriate profile raising and marketing of Ricardo’s services and capabilities.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit.ee@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.