Strategic Growth & Development - Secondee

Overview

Role: Strategic Growth & Development - Secondee

Location: UK Flexible

Role ID: 2023-2003

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company, listed on the London Stock Exchange. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

Role purpose

The Strategic Growth & Development (SGD) team is working to develop several propositions to help accelerate our growth.  Each proposition is lead by a senior member of the team.  This secondment is to provide support to one or more of the proposition leads.

There are two purposes for this 6 month secondment:

• Collect, analyse and present quantified and qualitative information for use in internal and external reports & presentations
• Develop consultancy skills and a broader understanding of Ricardo’s capabilities and teams as well as insights into future markets – to take back to the candidates practice

The propositions that SGD are working in FY 23/24 now are:

• North America: Expansion into the North American market
• Transport Decarbonisation: Exploiting Ricardo’s energy and mobility expertise
• Marine: Exploiting our policy work in this sector in the private sector
• Rail: Collaboration with Rail colleagues in CE&ES

Two further topics will kick off in the next 4 months:

• ESG & Finance: Developing our offer on ESG compliance for the finance sector
• Climate Risk: Development of new propositions e.g. private sector

Key responsibilities

This role will report to the Director Strategic Growth & Development, though the day to day tasks will be for one or more of the proposition leads.

The following list of responsibilities draws on previous experience, but this is not exhaustive:

• Collect, structure, and analyse qualitative and quantified data
• Organise internal and external meetings, taking minutes
• Develop PowerPoint presentations
• Analysis of data on markets, competitors etc
• Interview external and internal stakeholders and analyse the findings
• Develop and maintain share point micro-sites
• Keep confidential information confidential

Key competencies and experience

• Hold a BSc and/or MSc degree in and energy or environmental topic
• Have an analytical and problem-solving mindset, collaborative attitude and be eager to learn.
• Willing to apply new analytical and consultancy techniques
• Have proven experience of research and/or work experience on energy or environmental topics
• Able to work with a light touch of management & direction
• Be an excellent user of MS Office with particular emphasis on MS Excel and MS Word.
• Be proficient in English (verbal and written).

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.