Senior Consultant / Manager - Life Cycle Assessment

Anthesis Group; Pasig; Hybrid; PHP 900,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthesis Group in the Philippines is seeking a Senior Consultant or Manager/Principal Consultant to join the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) team. The role focuses on delivering rigorous LCA modelling and strategic insights for global clients, with a hybrid work arrangement from the Philippines.

The ideal candidate will have 4–6 years (Senior) or 10+ years (Manager/Principal) of LCA experience, strong technical judgement, and the ability to translate analysis into actionable client recommendations.

Qualifications

• A degree/relevant qualification in sustainability/climate, engineering, environmental science, or related field.
• For Senior Consultant: 4–6 years of hands-on applied LCA experience, across multiple sectors/value chains.
• For Manager/Principal Consultant: at least 10 years total work experience with minimum 6 years hands-on LCA experience across multiple sectors/value chains.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of LCA engagements and projects on time, on budget, and to high-quality standards.
• Design, build, review, and interpret robust LCA models using SimaPro in line with ISO standards and sector frameworks.
• Translate complex technical data into clear, compelling deliverables and evidence-based recommendations.
• Engage with clients, gather requirements, and manage feedback to support trusted relationships.
• Support business development and contribute to proposals for LCA, EPD, CBAM.

Skills

LCA experience

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical thinking

Team leadership

Education

Degree in sustainability/climate, engineering, environmental science

Tools

SimaPro

Job description

Senior Consultant / Manager - Life Cycle Assessment

Department: Circ. & Value Chain Trans. : Advisory

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Philippines

Description

We are seeking a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Senior Consultant or Manager/Principal Consultant to joinour LCA team.

Our clients are increasingly seeking expert LCA support to understand the environmental impacts oftheir products, services and systems; improve product design; make credible, evidence-basedsustainability claims; and accelerate the transition to primary Scope 3 data. To meet this demand, we are looking for a proven LCA practitioner who can contribute immediately to high-quality project deliveryacross our global team.

This role is based in the Philippines and can be partially hybrid (working from home several days / week).

This role is focused on delivering rigorous LCA modelling, high-quality analysis, strategic insight and clearclient-facing recommendations. The ideal candidate will bring at least 4 (for Senior Consultant) or 6 (forManager/Principal Consultant) years of practical, applied LCA experience, strong technical judgement,and the confidence to solve complex problems in real project settings.

We are looking for someone who combines analytical rigour with commercial and strategic thinking:someone who can understand a client’s challenge, design the right technical approach, execute itefficiently, and translate the results into compelling, actionable insight. Strong storytelling is essential.The ability to turn complex analysis into clear recommendations that resonate with the intendedaudience is one of the most important aspects of this role.

The successful candidate will be impact-driven, committed to environmental outcomes, personallyaccountable for the quality of their work, and motivated to continuously improve how we deliver,including through the effective and responsible use of AI.

Anthesis is a global advisory, and our skilled people have opportunities to be deployed dynamicallybeyond their home countries, and our clients often span the globe.

Key Responsibilities

Client & Project Delivery

• Project Management: Lead the delivery of consulting engagements and LCA projects on time, onbudget, and to high-quality standards across a diverse range of sectors while managing multipleprojects and workstreams effectively, balancing competing timelines, priorities and clientexpectations.
• LCA Technical Execution & Modeling: Design, build, review, and interpret robust Life CycleAssessment (LCA) and product carbon footprint models primarily using SimaPro, ensuringalignment/adherence to recognized LCA methodologies, ISO standards, sector-specific frameworks,Product Category Rules and client-specific requirements.
• Analysis & Strategic Recommendations: Understand client challenges, opportunities and decisionmaking needs, then design practical LCA approaches that provide clear value. Translate complextechnical data into clear, compelling deliverables and actionable, evidence-based recommendationsaddressing hotspots, trade-offs, and client decision-making needs.
• Client Engagement & Relationship Building: Engage confidently with clients, including gatheringrequirements, explaining methods and assumptions, presenting findings, managing feedback andsupporting trusted client relationships.
• Problem-Solving & Judgment: Apply strong, pragmatic judgement, critical thinking and proactiveproblem-solving to identify issues, resolve roadblocks and propose practical ways forward.
• Expert Input & Quality Assurance: Provide guidance on product carbon footprints, GHG inventoriesand the intersection between product-level analysis and corporate carbon accounting. Reviewproject work and provide expert viewpoint and quality assurance on deliverables. Uphold Anthesis’commitment to high-quality, high-impact LCA work, with strong attention to detail, technicalaccuracy and consistency.

Business Development

• Proposal Management: Lead or contribute to the development of proposals on LCA, EPD, CBAM, andcontribute to the presentation and conversion of these opportunities, in collaboration with theguidance and support of colleagues.
• Service development: Develop or contribute to the development of new service offerings and/orstreamline and improve existing service offerings including creating delivery and proposal templates,providing training and acting as internal expert on a specific service.
• Thought Leadership and Marketing: Contribute to the development of Anthesis’ thought leadershipand marketing materials in relation to LCA, EPD and CBAM.

Organizational & Personal Development

• Line Management: Demonstrate strong coaching and mentoring skills bringing in proven ability tosupport the development of team members, build technical excellence, and cultivate a high performing, collaborative team environment.
• Strategic & Organisational Initiatives: Contribute to important internal initiatives, propositiondevelopment and innovation.
• Training & Personal Development: use the ACE (Anthesis Centre of Excellence) learning anddevelopment platform guided by your line manager.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• A degree/relevant qualification in a related field (sustainability/climate, engineering, environmental science, etc.)
• For Senior Consultant: 4 to 6 years of hands-on, applied LCA experience, ideally across multiple sectors, product types or value chains. Management and business development experience is required.
• For Manager/Principal Consultant: At least 10 years of work experience with minimum of 6 years of hands-on, applied LCA experience, ideally across multiple sectors, product types or value chains.
• Management and business development experience is required.