Senior/Principal Environmental, Social and Governance Sustainability Advisory Consultant

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We are looking for a Principal Environmental, Social and Governance  Consultant (ESG) Consultant to join our growing Sustainability Advisory business. The successful candidate will work as a core member and leader of our ESG Service Line, focused on helping clients use our expertise in valuable and impactful ways to lead in their sector. You will help us deliver world leading sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. 

You will be actively encouraged to challenge yourself, learn new things, and use your skills wherever they can make an impact across the extent of our Sustainability Advisory and wider business. 

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:

• You will be a core member and leader of our ESG Service Line, focused on helping clients use our expertise in valuable and impactful ways to lead in their sector.
• Contribute to leading the SA Strategy, growth objectives and delivery capabilities of our ESG Service Line across both regulatory and mandatory frameworks (including but not limited to GRESB, CSRD, TCFD, TNFD, SECR, ISSB, Double Materiality Assessments) and related topics.
• Strong working knowledge and understanding of current and upcoming relevant legislation and requirements.
• Required to develop and win business through engagement with new and existing clients to identify their strategic ESG needs.
• Lead client engagement and the team to deliver high quality results, on time and on budget.
• Identify needs that the clients may not recognise and ensuring approaches and solutions are linked to objectives and future needs.
• Proactively supports business development through generating leads, writing proposals, case studies and capability statements.
• Supporting the SA Leadership, SA MarComms and the other SA Service Lines to raise our profile in the business and grow our presence in the UK.
• Line management responsibility for a small number of direct reports in addition to managing staff on projects, including support in setting objectives, conducting career development discussions and supporting development.
• Prepare ESG content, attending and supporting the SA ESG Service Line at virtual and in person events.
• Build strong and lasting relationships with colleagues, clients and our wider community.

Qualifications & Experience:

We are looking for someone who is  excited about the opportunity to be part of a high performing team, learning and growing the ESG Service Line

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline with a experience specialising in ESG service delivery, preferably within a consultancy environment.
• Chartered membership of an appropriate Professional body [desirable but not essential]
• Successful track record of contributing to the growth and development of a ESG consulting delivery team in a sustainability services business.
• Passionate about sustainability and have proven, relevant experience at a senior level, including helping organisations set strategies across the range of ESG Reporting frameworks.
• Instrumental in building and managing a commercial ESG Reporting service offering within a professional services environment, focussed on external clients.
• Proven track record of securing new business from existing and new clients in a strategic way that adds genuine value and impact.
• Direct line management experience and have ideally led and developed a junior and or mid-level consulting team.
• Effective project management, client relationship management and commercial skills,
• Strong working knowledge and understanding of current and upcoming relevant legislation and requirements.

Arcadis offer agile working; you will be able to split your time working at home and in the office. Shorter periods of time spent on-site at our client’s offices may be required, and occasional short term international/European travel may also be required. Opportunities may also arise for our staff to immerse themselves in our client’s businesses in part or full-time secondment roles

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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