Advisory Team Manager

The Landbanking Group; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 600 000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative ecological finance firm in Cape Town is seeking an Advisory Team Manager. This key role involves engaging with clients to create nature-based financial assets, managing project delivery, and fostering collaboration across teams. The ideal candidate has 5-7 years of experience in consulting or sustainability, along with strong project management and storytelling skills. The role offers a collaborative work environment and exposure to global clients.

Benefits

Collaborative work environment

Exposure to global clients

Opportunity to shape a new function

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of professional experience in strategy consulting, sustainability advisory, or ESG.
• Strong generalist profile with quick learning ability.
• Excellent storytelling and visualization skills.

Responsibilities

• Engage with clients to understand their needs and frame opportunities.
• Manage and deliver client projects including reports and data visualizations.
• Coordinate with team members to ensure project execution.

Skills

Project management

Storytelling and visualization

Client engagement

Collaboration

Adaptability

Job description

The Landbanking Group (TLG) is a fast-moving, category-defining company creating investible products from natural capital.

We operate at the frontier where high finance meets deep ecology – turning biodiversity, soil, and water into a new asset class.

We blend mission and market savvy : delivering competitive returns for investors while restoring ecosystems on the ground.

About the Role

We have recently established an Advisory Team to support clients who want to go further than what our platform Landler provides – companies ready to explore how healthy nature can be recognized as a financial asset, reflected on their balance sheet, and leveraged to unlock new forms of value.

The Advisory Team Manager will play a central role in shaping and running this new function.

Key Responsibilities

• Client engagement : Work closely with clients to understand their strategic needs, frame opportunities, and build trust.
• Project delivery : Manage and deliver your own client projects – from scoping and research to storytelling, including structured reports, slide decks, and data visualizations.
• Sounding board : Act as a thought partner for other project managers, helping them sharpen structures, outputs, and client communication.
• Team coordination : Keep the advisory team on track, ensuring priorities are clear and projects run smoothly.
• Expert integration : Spot where external expertise is needed, and bring in the right contractors or domain specialists.
• Cross-team collaboration : Coordinate with Customer Success team and Sales team on on-platform delivery and capacity planning for incoming leads.
• Knowledge development : Help capture learnings and turn them into scalable approaches for future clients.

What We're Looking For

• 5–7 years of professional experience, ideally in strategy consulting, sustainability advisory, ESG, or other client-facing work.
• Strong generalist profile : quick learner, structured thinker, able to navigate diverse industries and contexts.
• Skilled in project management, balancing multiple client projects with ease.
• Excellent storytelling and visualization skills : able to craft clear reports, compelling narratives, and sharp presentations.
• A strong communicator and collaborator : enjoys acting as a sounding board, integrating diverse perspectives, and working in shared leadership.
• Entrepreneurial mindset : proactive, adaptable, thrives in pioneering contexts.
• Interest in or exposure to finance, sustainability, or natural capital is highly desirable, but deep expertise is not required if you are a fast learner.

What We Offer

The chance to help shape a new function from the ground up in a pioneering start-up at the intersection of finance and nature.

A non-hierarchical, collaborative work environment where leadership is shared and initiative is valued.

Exposure to global clients and cutting-edge conversations about putting nature on the balance sheet.

A role that combines hands-on project delivery with strategic orchestration.