Head of Wind

Overview

Role: Head of Wind

Location: UK Flexible, Spain

Role ID: 2023-2099

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

At Ricardo, we believe in fostering an environment where you can thrive and make a meaningful impact. We are committed to empowering our employees, providing opportunities for growth and professional development as well as cultivating a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Purpose

• The purpose of this role is to lead our activity in the wind sector in a consultancy winner / doer model growing a team around you as you create success. This role is about helping our clients to go on their decarbonisation and energy security journeys by supporting wind implementation projects. Helping them create sustainable businesses for the future. You will be highly driven by this agenda. This is a great role for someone who wants to develop their own wind consultancy team in a highly established and professional business with engineering excellence at its core.

What we are looking for

• You will be an industry professional with consulting, and potentially wind developer or EPC experience. With substantive track record in the wind sector, onshore, possibly onshore in community and organisation scale wind projects. Ideally you will have expertise delivering these projects to clients in Ricardo core sectors; Automotive, Aviation, Marine, Rail, Defense, Industrial & Manufacturing, Energy & Utilities or Government.
• You will be well networked, ideally known in the sector with potential clients and partners and want to drive strong growth, developing a team around you as well as working seamlessly with our experts in related technologies such as battery storage, hydrogen around the world.
• You will have a first degree ideally in a science or engineering background and are likely to have further qualifications as a life-long learner. Indeed continuous improvement of your own approach will be a core foundation. You will be experienced in leading multi-disciplinary teams to help clients successfully deliver projects, building client partnerships and high performing consultancy delivery teams.
• You are used to working with colleagues around the world who can bring their expertise to the benefit of our clients.

Role objectives

• Develop and deliver a wind growth strategy and associated plans to grow orders, revenue and profit and a successful and sustainable organisation.
• Lead our client work developing trusted long term relationships.
• Grow a delivery team in wind which meets our clients’ needs.
• Represent our services and the wider Ricardo in the external market.
• Develop partner relationships with organisations who can support our service delivery and wider client needs and act as channels to help secure clients’.
• Work with key stakeholders across Ricardo.

The behaviours we are looking for in our team members are:

• Tenacity – we need someone who is going to establish Ricardo in the wind market.
• Drive and ambition – you’ll need this to build a successful business for us in wind, leveraging the excellent links, relationships and work we do.
• Customer focused – your natural home is with the end customer and bring value by helping others place themselves in the customers shoes.You will love supporting our clients on their decarbonisation agenda and in creating lasting partnerships.
• Balanced – creating ‘win – win’ outcomes are your superpower, being comfortable when trading off competing perspectives for customer need, financial viability, and technical feasibility.
• Simplicity – you are constantly translating complex problems and solutions into simple language, pictures, and concepts, ensuring everyone from the technical engineer to the CEO is on the same page.
• Risk taker – you are not afraid of trying and failing, demonstrating to others that failure is an outcome to be celebrated and nurtured. You understand you cannot succeed unless you have failed and learnt in the process.
• Caring – being kind to one another and expecting this in return is part of your core. You understand that everyone has the potential to be great and nurturing this growth by caring for each other is a part of your DNA. You will have strong emotional intelligence which you will apply to all your work.

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.

We also recognise that life is not static but is varied and flexible. For this reason, we also think that your work life should reflect this and have an open approach to how, where and when you work.

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.

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.