Senior Consultant - Energy Efficiency and Product Policy

Overview

Role: Senior Energy Efficiency and Product Policy Consultant

Location: UK Flexible

Role ID: 2023-1906

We are currently looking for an Senior Energy Efficiency and Product Policy Consultant  to join our Evidence and policy team.

Key Responsibilities:

The role is a position with responsibility for:

• Monitoring market developments and inputting to company business development activities to take advantage of emerging opportunities.
• Development and maintenance of close client and partner relationships to support the winning of new business.
• Contributing to complex proposals and leading simpler ones.
• Leading medium sized projects or tasks within larger projects
• Supporting the delivery of projects. This involves working within teams to achieve client satisfaction, timely delivery, strong project financial performance and high quality technical outputs.
• Participating in capacity building activities including workshop facilitation and presentation delivery.
• Presenting Ricardo Energy & Environment’s work at client meetings.

Key competencies and experience:

• Educated to at least Bachelor’s degree level specializing in scientific, engineering, product design or environmental fields.
• Experience contributing to business development and/or competitive bid writing in a consultancy environment is strongly desired.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams is essential, and experience managing project teams would be an advantage.
• Previous experience working within projects for clients such as the UK Government, European Commission, JRC, World Bank, GIZ and other international financial institutions would be desirable.
• Experience with UK and EU energy and climate change policy especially the measures implemented under the UK industrial strategy, Net Zero agenda, Clean Growth Strategy, EU Energy Efficiency Directive, Ecolabel Directive, EU Eco-design Regulation and the Effort Sharing Regulation.
• Experience with stakeholder consultation, impact assessment, cost benefit analysis, rapid evidence assessment and policy evaluation will be valued.
• Experience in handling energy labelling, eco-design, ecolabelling, capital tax incentives, carbon/energy taxation ad research incentives.

Skills and behaviours:

• Strong project delivery skills with track record in contributing towards large and/or complex projects.
• Experience leading projects or tasks within large projects is essential.
• Excellent written and spoken English essential; fluency in other European languages will be an advantage. Strong Spanish or French language skills proven in a consultancy environment will be considered a particular strength.
• Strong oral and written communication essential, including concise and precise report writing.
• Strong analytical skills essential.
• Good team worker.
• Strong level of commercial awareness and appreciation for project financial management principles would be an advantage.

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.