Future Energy Solutions - Global Business Director

Ricardo; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm is seeking a Global Business Director to lead and drive the Future Energy Solutions sector. This role focuses on delivering profitable growth through innovative strategic consulting, fostering key customer relationships, and ensuring operational success within a diverse and inclusive environment. Apply if you have a background in engineering or economics and a strong commercial acumen.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Support for physical and mental health

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Proven track record in a high-value consultancy environment.
• Experience in delivering consulting assignments.
• Ability to present ideas concisely and logically.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for developing and delivering business strategic plans.
• Lead external market focus and innovative solution creation.
• Ensure safe and ethical operations in business areas.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Strategic thinking

Relationship building

Education

Degree in Chemical, Electrical or relevant engineering and/or economics

MBA (advantage but not essential)

Job description

Overview

Role: Future Energy Solutions - Global Business Director

Locations: UK - London, Shoreham, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow - Spain, Prague & Greece - Hybrid

Role ID: 2025-2853

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. 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.

Key Purpose

• As Global Lead the successfulcandidate will drive, develop and deliver profitable growth plans for Future Energy Solutions within the Energy Infrastructure Transition business, with a focus on building innovative and premium strategic advisory consulting solutions.
• Future Energy Solution business covers Power (Wind, Solar, Pumped Hydro, Battery Storage, Power Transmission), Hydrogen, Hydrogen vectors, clean energy infrastructures (EV charging, H2 fueling, Power and fueling networks) connecting with downstream industries (including Aviation, Ports, Ground Mobility, Datacentres)
• Accountable for leadership, business performance (order book and P&L) and the safe and effective operations of this part of the business.

Organisational Reporting

Reporting to Global VP of EIT (Energy, Infrastructure Transition) and working collaboratively with other Global Business Directors and managers within the EIT team and across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for developing and delivering the strategic plans of the business areas aligned with the vision for the overall business.
• Overall accountability for sales order book and delivering sustainable pipeline growth for the business area. Defining BD strategy, marketing strategy, routes to market for new offerings.
• Accountable for performance in terms of Revenue/VAT, Profit Margins and the growth trajectory across all business areas of responsibility.
• Proactively assess new market developments and emerging challenges in the energy transition space, to stay ahead of competition and meeting overall EIT vision.
• Lead the external market focus and the creation of new and innovative solutions.
• Proactively lead development of subject matter thought leadership, white papers and promote Ricardo’s solutions and capabilities through events, conferences and other marketing channels.
• Work with other Global Business Leads in developing new solutions and engaging with customers as a part of ongoing consulting assignments as well as business development related activities as required.
• Define the resourcing needs for this element of the Practice Area and contribute to the overall strategy, ensuring a balance of cost and flexibility, identify opportunities to create external partnerships.
• Ensure that all areas of responsibility operate safely, ethically and in line with all statutory and corporate requirements.
• Sets the standard for people development, coaching and mentoring direct reports and key individuals, and holding others to account with regard to their own and their team’s development.
• Build succession for key roles within their team (including own) and drive talent attraction and retention within the business.
• Provide leadership, development and motivation to the people aligned to their area of the Practice, and the wider organisation, in order to enable the delivery of significant sustainable growth.
• As required, ready to take on hands-on consulting assignment delivery leadership with an ability to direct and develop project reports.

Essential Skills and qualifications

We are not specific with regard to exact qualifications or years of experience, the right person will bring the energy and capability to support business growth areas with the following background experiences.

• Working directly with customers, building positive relationships and growing both existing order book and new business
• Proven track record of delivering to revenue, profit and cash targets in a high value consultancy environment.
• Defining and executing growth strategies.
• Appropriate industry and market knowledge relevant to the Practice and Future Fuels.
• Degree in Chemical, Electrical other relevant engineering and / or economics.
• Recognized as an SME in for one or more subject matter areas.
• Prior experience delivering Consulting assignments including development of developing key strategy, commercial and technical deliverables suitable for strategy, concept, feasibility projects and OE/PMC assignments.
• Ability to think strategically and presenting ideas in a concise and logical manner.
• Ability to understand complex problems and develop a value-based proposition for customers to solve those problems.
• Leading people – development, mentoring and coaching of individuals and being an inspirational presence for the wider business.
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Experience of working in a complex / matrix global organisation.
• MBA is an advantage but not essential.

Additional requirements - Some international and domestic travels.

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.Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.BenefitsWe 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 [e-mail] if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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