Principal Consultant – Agri-Food

Role Overview

• General Work with major global retail and FMCG clients to provide strategic solutions and direction on key sustainability challenges across a broad range of commodity supply chains.
• Drive business development in this service area, by upselling to existing clients and sourcing new opportunities, using your established network would be advantageous.
• Prepare detailed project proposals including operational and commercial estimates working with a variety of team members across the wider business.
• Lead and be responsible for client facing deliverables, such as workshops, interviews, research, data analysis and reporting writing.
• Create insightful and client ready outputs and give clear briefs to colleagues who contribute to and help shape our response to client challenges and briefs.
• Support the junior team to project manage clients on a variety of projects, acting as a key point of contact for relevant clients, as well as a senior voice across others to ensure efficient and high-quality project delivery.
• Build strong, trusting relationships with clients and gain an understanding of their business.
• Manage yourself and project teams to drive project profitability and account growth, ensuring projects are delivered with commercial success as well as impact.
• Work with key clients as part of a global team to provide ongoing sustainable agriculture and food expertise and project delivery.
• Review primary supplier engagement data across a variety of sectors and projects to support client decarbonisation opportunities.
• Input into training collateral to support engaging and upskilling key clients, their supply chains and other key stakeholders.
• Support clients with expert advice with the setting of and delivery of progress against SBTis and client decarbonisation journeys in agricultural supply chains across sectors, including FLAG.
• Hold 1:1 meetings, interfacing with key internal Anthesis teams, client stakeholders and third parties to provide insight and support on production systems and sustainability hotspots.

Requirements

• A degree / relevant qualification in a related field (Agriculture, Sustainability, Environmental Science).
• Demonstrable experience (7 + years) of working in arable/livestock/fresh produce/commodities sectors.
• Practical experience in project or programme management, either in house, as a consultant or an NGO environment.
• Strengths in working in multi-stakeholder environments, including with senior stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of the sustainability challenges impacting agri-food value chains with a particular focus on greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removal opportunities and regenerative agriculture.
• Working knowledge of SBTi and Greenhouse Gas Protocol Experience in delivering high quality and professional reports, in multiformat and for various audiences.
• Experience of business development and building a pipeline of commercial opportunities relevant to expertise.
• Line management experience of junior colleagues.
• Strong analytical skills and commercial acumen, with advanced Excel skills
• Demonstrable experience of sustainability legislation and reporting affecting food system organisations.
• English language

Benefits

• 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!
• An opportunity to participate in the Anthesis Employee Participation Plan (EPP), an industry-pioneering employee incentive plan that allows all employees to be rewarded for the growth in the equity value of Anthesis.
• Cooperative, supportive and open working atmosphere.