Managing Consultant ( Climate & NetZero)

JR United Kingdom; Bristol; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

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Managing Consultant (Climate & NetZero), Bristol

Client: Synergize Consulting

Location: Bristol, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Views: 10

Posted: 18.04.2025

Expiry Date: 02.06.2025

Job Description:

Our client, a leading consultancy, now has an exciting opportunity for a Managing Consultant to work within their climate and Net Zero team.

Your key responsibility will be Business Development for NetZero, as well as being responsible for an internal team, leading by example, inspiring people, and developing them to be the best they can be.

As a Subject Matter Expert in the field of climate change and sustainability, you will also lead, develop, and maximize the contract and consultancy experience for clients.

You will take the position of Leader and Solution Oversight on client projects, supervising and managing consultants, seniors, and assistant consultants to achieve success for our clients. Further seeking and acting on business opportunities to support the organization’s growth and strategy.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Business Development

1. Active leadership and involvement in identifying opportunities
2. Active leadership and involvement in developing and delivering business growth
3. Active leadership and involvement in bid writing, development, and responding to tenders
4. Active involvement and leadership in engaging with clients, potential clients, and partners
5. Active involvement in promoting the business through our social media posts (e.g. LinkedIn)
6. Develop and present case studies/lessons learnt of current projects and present to clients.
7. Contact sub-contractors and client contacts on their projects for further opportunities
8. Wholly responsible for account management and/or a large client account, reporting to the relevant SLT member.

Internal Responsibilities

1. Ability to interface with senior staff, clients, and stakeholders
2. Support the Leadership Team with business initiatives
3. Undertake business development activities and provide effective client interaction
4. Assist in bids and obtaining new work
5. Represent the company at conferences, client dinners, corporate events, and exhibitions
6. Manage and supervise technical resources and staff
7. Team Management – Leading a strategic direction, responsible for implementing strategy
8. Assist in the utilization levels of service stream consultants
9. Line Management of staff, time, workloads, objectives for team and self (Utilization etc)

WAYS OF WORKING

Driven to Deliver

1. You are Inspirational across the business.
2. Developing Strategies
3. Taking Responsibilities for identified Goals
4. Responsible for Team utilization and engagement
5. Identifying opportunities for business growth within client environments

Professionally Responsible

1. Authorization of managing pastorally with integrity and assurance around resource availability, expense.
2. Responsible for budgets - acting with transparency and integrity.
3. Moderation - responsible for determining and reasoning with SLT (Justification) when it comes to yearly performance.

Commercially and Contractually Astute

Supporting others and your own physical and mental health.

Culture

1. Driving a culture of continuous improvement.
2. Enabling and allowing an environment for questioning the status quo.
3. Ensuring a No-Blame culture.
4. Operating an "open door" policy to allow openness to SLT engagement.
5. Actively Challenging territorial behavior.
6. Creating opportunities via your CoP to collaborate cross-community.
7. Developing and aligning to standardized business process and procedures championing the consistent application across teams.
8. Solution-Led.

Critical Thinker

1. Being open to pragmatic and sustainable solutions - taking on suggestions and growing them to deliver benefit across the business.
2. Ownership of HR decision-making for your team.
3. Ownership of Recruitment - interviewing & hiring.

Core Skills – In addition to Role, Responsibilities and Ways of Working

You will be delivering business development success for the organization and consultancy support to clients around portfolio, program and project planning and controls. The below responsibilities are not exhaustive, it is a list of chosen responsibilities which you will need to demonstrate:

• Consultancy experience
• Experience in defining, managing and delivering complex projects, programs, and portfolios.
• Recent experience of working within the Ministry of Defence, Nuclear, Public Sector, IT or Infrastructure programs.
• Understand the classification and protection of classified information.
• Leadership of Program assurance reviews on projects of increasing size and complexity and in the delivery of major business and change management solutions.
• Conversant with continuous improvement and benchmarking methodologies.
• Expertise in multiple planning management and control disciplines.
• Fully conversant with risk and opportunity management including associated methodologies.
• Implementation of benefits management, quality management, and blueprint design and delivery principles.
• Ability to work on own initiative and a ‘Can-Do’ attitude.
• Demonstrable effective communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Ability to bid manage complex proposals and provide technical assurance of bid costings and scope, leading bid teams and opportunity pursuit teams.
• Ability to identify key areas for the department to develop capability.
• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary Program teams, managing performance and delivery.
• Knowledge and experience in Climate Change, Sustainability and/or Social Value and/or Net Zero Pathways, Circular Economy, Decommissioning, Waste, Environmental Management, Climate Security, Nature-based Solutions and/or Sustainable Technology.
• The suitable candidate already holds or will be expected to achieve Security Clearance.
• Experience in the Defence industry.
• Security Clearance.
• Full Member of APM is desirable.
• APM Practitioner is desirable.
• PMP Professional is desirable.
• PRINCE2 - practitioner is desirable.
• Management of Projects (MoP) – practitioner.
• IEMA Environmental Management / Sustainability Qualification(s).

Please apply with a copy of your CV in the first instance.