Location | London |
Job-type | Permanent |
Salary | £65,000 - £75,000 |
Reference | 17780 |
About Sustainable Advantage
As a fast-growing business and one of the UK's leading energy and waste consultants, we're proud to be helping our customers reduce costs through innovative energy and waste management solutions and boost their environmental credentials.
As well as our trading desk procuring energy contracts and renewals effectively by taking advantage of market changes, we monitor consumption to identify areas where energy use can be reduced, providing alarm alerts and insightful energy dashboards in our self-service portal. We manage and accelerate the delivery of utility infrastructure connections and metering which speeds up the opening of new premises and often at a lower cost.
Our waste division find eco-friendly disposal methods for everything from food to clinical waste, with an ultimate goal of both reducing costs and increasing recycling levels. We offer a full account management service, provide a UK helpdesk, compliance portal and reporting.
Many of our clients' businesses operate from multiple sites in sectors such as education, healthcare, hospitality, construction and manufacturing and have a total of more than 5,000 sites we support.
Sustainable Advantage is one of the UK's leading consultancies, made up of three divisions providing a broad range of services as follows:
ESG
ESG Impact/Sustainability reports
Net Zero baseline calculations & reduction plans
Climate Risk strategy and TCFD reporting
ESG assessment and strategy development
Social Value gap analysis and reporting
Stakeholder Materiality Assessments & Surveys
General consulting and tender support
Utilities
Procurement of electricity, gas and water
Bill validation
Utility consumption reporting and reduction
Metering
Energy network connections
Waste
Management of all waste types
Recycling and reduction in waste to landfill
Compliance and reporting
Consulting on reducing waste consumption
Sustainable Advantage support many UK blue-chip clients across more than 25 sectors.
In 2019 Sustainable Advantage was recognised as the UK's 70th fastest growing Private
Company by Virgin Fast Track 100
THE ROLE
Primary role will be the generation of consulting revenues from the production of ESG maturity assessments, due diligence reviews for Private Equity investors and annual ESG Impact Reports. The role will also involve reviewing Net Zero baseline calculations, creating carbon reduction plans for clients and developing climate risk strategies aligned to the TCFD reporting framework.
Post the reporting process, clients are scored and benchmarked against a number of ESG metrics and provided with an action plan to direct a strategy for long-term value creation. Secondary role will be the management of a small (3-4 person) team of ESG Consultants.
Management responsibilities include training, ensuring delivery of consulting assignments on time and on budget, mentoring and undertaking quality reviews of the ESG Consultants' work.
PERSONAL SPECIFICATION
ESSENTIAL
A passion for ESG and net zero.
At least 5 years of experience working for a business consultancy organisation with a track record of managing successful small teams of consultants.
Experience in ESG or adjacent market domain area expertise.
The successful candidate would need to have demonstrable expertise in writing reports to deadlines as writing reports and scoring companies is a significant part of the role
Ability to build strong trusted relationships with the client's board and senior management team as a Senior ESG consultant
A university degree qualification with minimum 5 years work experience post university
DESIRABLE
Domain area expertise in ESG and net zero
Carbon calculation experience
Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Sustainable Advantage is a place where everyone can grow. So however you identify, and whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day.
Apply today to find out more.
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