Senior Consultant – Strategy & Reporting Bristol, England
Job description
Location: Flexibly remote from one of our UK hubs (Bristol, Edinburgh, Harrogate, London, Manchester or Oxford)
Practice Area: Strategy
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Remuneration Range: Competitive
Key Responsibilities:
This role is in the Strategy Practice – client type varies, from apparel and retailing to technology and manufacturing. Your tasks as a Senior Consultant within the team will be varied and include:
- Delivering on-site and remote reporting, strategy, materiality and double materiality support, programme management services and other consultations.
- Consulting on ESG reporting frameworks including CSRD and ISSB alignment with mainstream business processes.
- Setting goals and KPIs for clients in line with best-practice standards and aligned to commercial priorities.
- Support in developing, selling and delivering existing and new products and services.
- Developing creative corporate responsibility and sustainability concepts and content. Integration of concepts into mainstream communications.
- Identifying and developing creative, analytical solutions to address unique sustainability challenges
- Engaging with, and presenting to a wide a range of stakeholders
You will be expected to participate in client projects and proposals and to deliver tasks on time and within budget.
About Anthesis
Anthesis is the sustainability activator!
Proud to be a B Corp, we seek to make a significant contribution to a world which is more resilient and productive. We do this by working with cities, corporates, investors and other organisations to drive sustainable performance. We develop financially driven sustainability strategies, underpinned by technical expertise and delivered by innovative collaborative teams across the world. The company combines the reach of big professional services groups with the deep expertise of boutiques.
Anthesis has clients across industry sectors from corporate multinationals such as Reckitt Benckiser, Cisco, Tesco, The North Face and Target, and also supports early-stage companies through Anthesis Ventures. The company brings together 1000+ experts operating in 42 countries around the world and has offices in Andorra, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Middle East, the Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the US.
At Anthesis we value both the wellbeing and the professional development of our people by doing our best to make Anthesis a great place to work. Our identity, values, and the quality of our work are vested in our people, and we want you to thrive, develop and succeed here.
As an equal opportunity’s employer, we value diversity in our workforce and make our decisions based on skills and experience – the only thing that differentiates you is your talent and the value you bring. We understand that diverse ideas breed extraordinary results by inspiring our thinking, challenging our solutions and enhancing our culture. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability.
Summary of role:
To sustain the growth in activity in our service area from domestic and global clients, we are keen to provide additional support to the team to expand to meet our clients’ needs in this exciting area of sustainability strategy development.
Our Strategy Practice operates predominantly in the private sector, focusing on:
- The interface between brand, purpose and sustainability
- Understanding material risks and opportunities relevant to our clients’ activities
- Defining sustainability targets and ambitions and associated metrics
- Alignment and compliance with key reporting frameworks such as CSRD
- Developing and translating sustainability strategies into creative concepts that can be used across communication channels
- Engaging a diverse range of stakeholders and encouraging them to take bolder actions to have more impact
- Supporting sustainability communications planning and activation, including sustainability reporting
- Working closely with other Anthesis teams on the implementation of sustainability strategies
Key Requirements:
- At least 3-5 years’ experience in sustainability
- Experience of delivering ESG framework support (CSRD, GRI or ISSB) either in-house or in a consultancy capacity
- Pragmatic and enthusiastic
- Organised, methodical and analytical
- Project management experience
- Ability to respond positively to pressure and take a flexible approach to a fast moving and changing work environment
- Work well with a wide range of people in a global environment
- Proactive with the ability and confidence to use initiative
Your Benefits (UK Only):
- Work within a highly motivated team in an innovative and rapidly growing global company
- Opportunity to have a direct impact and be a key part of the growth and development of the business and the team
- Work solely on projects that have an impact on the sustainability and climate change goals/challenges for clients
- Opportunity to work with, collaborate with and learn from sustainability SME’s who are passionate about the work they do and the impact Anthesis can have
- Exposure to a wide range of clients and projects on a global basis
- Competitive salary in line with, experience and skills
- Competitive benefits including flexible working, 25 days holiday and two volunteering days off and the day off for your Birthday!
- Cooperative, supportive and open working atmosphere.
