Senior Manager, Climate Advisory

Goodbody; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension

Educational sponsorship

Health insurance

Hybrid working model

Job summary

Goodbody is seeking a Senior Manager to lead climate advisory engagements, focusing on carbon footprinting, PCFs, LCAs, and environmental product declarations. You will guide client journeys, manage project delivery, and mentor junior colleagues while collaborating with senior leadership on strategic climate initiatives.

The role requires strong client relationships, technical delivery capability, and an ability to translate complex data into practical recommendations for diverse stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Senior climate professional with strong client and project leadership.
• Experience delivering carbon footprints, LCAs, and PCFs.
• Ability to translate complex findings for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Support clients throughout carbon and climate projects.
• Lead delivery of Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs) and LCAs.
• Mentor colleagues and contribute to methodologies and best practices.

Job description

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About Goodbody

For more than 150 years, Goodbody has helped clients make informed financial decisions and move forward with confidence. Today, we are an intelligence-led capital, investment and wealth platform with global reach, connecting insight, expertise and opportunity to deliver exceptional outcomes for businesses, individuals and institutions.

With more than 400 employees across Dublin, London, Cork and Galway, we combine deep expertise with a collaborative culture that enables our people to grow and succeed. Guided by our values and recognised through multiple employer and workplace culture awards, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where ambition is supported, development is encouraged and careers can flourish.

About The Senior Manager Climate Advisory Role

The Senior Manager will play a key role in supporting the client journey and enabling Directors, Senior Directors, and business leaders within the Climate team to deliver high-quality client engagements.

The primary focus of the role will be to support clients throughout the delivery of carbon and climate projects while also acting as a technical lead for product sustainability assessments, including Organisational Footprints, Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs), Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs), and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).

This role will combine client relationship management, project leadership, and technical delivery. The Senior Manager will act as a trusted advisor to clients, helping them understand and navigate product sustainability requirements, carbon accounting methodologies, environmental performance reporting, and market expectations.

Working under the strategic direction of Climate team leaders, the Senior Manager will translate agreed project scopes and client priorities into well managed workplans and deliverables. They will coordinate and engage colleagues involved in project delivery, review technical analysis and client materials, provide quality assurance, and deliver clear updates to senior leadership.

The successful candidate will bring strong client relationship management skills, project delivery experience, and product sustainability expertise. They will be comfortable leading technical workstreams, managing multiple client engagements, mentoring less experienced colleagues, and contributing directly to detailed technical analysis where required.

Senior Manager Climate Advisory Accountabilities Include

Supporting the Client Journey

• Support clients throughout the delivery of carbon and climate projects, including organisational and product level assessments.
• Build positive, professional, and trusted relationships with client stakeholders.
• Act as a primary day to day point of contact for clients.
• Develop an understanding of each client's products, operations, sustainability objectives, and commercial drivers.
• Coordinate client information requests and manage project timelines and deliverables.
• Facilitate workshops, presentations, technical discussions, and project meetings.
• Present complex technical findings in a clear and practical manner for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Help clients understand environmental impacts, carbon hot spots, improvement opportunities, and reporting requirements.
• Identify emerging client needs and support the development of additional service opportunities.
• Support the business in building long-term client relationships.

Carbon Footprinting and Climate Advisory Support

• Support the delivery and review of organisational carbon footprints including Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions.
• Support GHG data collection, validation, analysis, and reporting activities.
• Provide technical input into decarbonisation and emissions reduction projects.
• Support climate strategy, target-setting, and sustainability reporting engagements where required.
• Review emissions calculations completed by other team members.
• Maintain auditable records of calculations, assumptions, methodologies, and supporting evidence.

Product Carbon Footprints, LCAs and EPDs

• Lead the delivery of Product Carbon Footprints (PCF) and LCA assessments across a range of sectors and product categories.
• Develop lifecycle inventory models and conduct lifecycle impact calculations to provide results and impacts as part of the preparation of LCAs.
• Coordinate, review and validate the documentation and verification requirements relating to the generation of EPDs and product assessments.
• Manage assumptions, allocation approaches, and calculation methodologies consistent with recognised standards and guidance provided by the evolving standards, regulations, methodologies, and industry LCA best practice.

Leadership and Team Development

• Manage multiple client engagements simultaneously, ensuring work is delivered on time and to a high standard.
• Coordinate with internal teams and specialist resources involved in project delivery.
• Provide project updates, risk management, and resource planning support to senior leadership.
• Review technical outputs and deliverables prepared by team members.
• Mentor and support less experienced consultants.
• Contribute to the development of methodologies, tools, templates, and internal best practices.
• Support proposal development and business development activities where appropriate.
• Attend, participate and contribute to conferences and training as required.

Ideal Characteristics

• The ideal candidate will be an experienced and commercially minded climate professional who combines strong technical expertise with excellent client and project leadership skills. They will be confident leading complex carbon engagements, particularly Organisational Carbon Footprints, Product Carbon Footprints, Life Cycle Assessments and Environmental Product Declarations.
• They will be a trusted and credible advisor who can build strong client relationships, understand business priorities and translate complex technical findings into clear, practical recommendations for both technical and non-technical audiences. Comfortable managing multiple engagements, they will bring a structured approach to project planning, quality assurance and delivery.
• The successful candidate will also be a collaborative and supportive team player who enjoys mentoring colleagues, reviewing technical work and contributing to the continuous improvement of methodologies, tools and services. They will be proactive, detail oriented and solutions focused, with the confidence to identify emerging client needs and contribute to proposals and business development opportunities.
• They will have a strong interest in how AI, data and emerging digital tools can enhance the quality, efficiency and impact of climate and sustainability services, and will be open to exploring and adopting new approaches where they add value for clients and the wider team.
• Above all, we are looking for someone who can balance technical rigour with commercial awareness and excellent communication, helping clients make informed decisions and achieve meaningful progress on their climate and sustainability objectives.

Employee Value Proposition

Goodbody Is Focused On Helping Our Employees Thrive, And We Do This By Bringing To Life Our Employee Value Proposition (EVP) ‘Together We Prosper’. Our Firm’s Purpose Is To Create Long-term Prosperity, And We Cannot Execute On Our Purpose Without The Right Talent At Goodbody. To Make Sure We Attract And Retain Industry-leading, Passionate And Inspiring Talent, We’ve Built a Vibrant Culture Based On Inclusion, Opportunities To Grow And a Commitment To ‘do The Right Thing’, One Of Our Core Values. We Live This By Offering

• Regular employee events through our universal inclusion programme fostering a sense of belonging and celebrating differences. And an ‘always on’ approach to social, financial, mental and physical wellbeing.
• A benefits package that includes a generous pension scheme, educational sponsorship and health insurance, along with a hybrid working model to promote better work/life balance
• Opportunities to give back through sustainability initiatives, volunteering and on-site and online meetings with our charity partners

Goodbody is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace which values and benefits from the diversity of our workforce. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please include a note in your application or email us directly at [e-mail]

Appointment to this role is subject to the candidate's eligibility to work in Ireland. Where agency assistance is required, our Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Goodbody by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this role. Goodbody operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the HR team will engage directly with our recruitment partners.

Goodbody Stockbrokers UC, trading as Goodbody, is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. In the UK, Goodbody is also subject to regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority. Goodbody is a member of Euronext Dublin and the London Stock Exchange. Goodbody is a member of the group of companies headed by AIB Group plc.

For AIB Employees: Please note there are specific controls in place for transfers between AIB and Goodbody. Goodbody is part of AIB Group and you must inform your AIB line manager and HR BP in advance of making an application to Goodbody.