Risk Management Support Services Lead

The Risk Management Support Services Lead at Anthesis Group is responsible for optimizing sustainable product services across teams and geographies. The role involves establishing cohesion in service delivery, managing a business plan, and leading team recruitment and development. This permanent, full-time position is flexible and encourages diverse perspectives to foster innovation in sustainability strategies for various clients, including major multinationals.
EMEA Service Line Lead:
Sustainable Products & Chemistry Department:
Advisory - Sustainable Products, Packaging and Circularity

Employment Type:

Permanent - Full Time

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Flexible Description About Anthesis Anthesis is the sustainability activator. 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. Anthesis has clients across all industry sectors and supports some of the world's largest multinationals such as Reckitt, Cisco, Tesco, The North Face, and Target.

We encourage all employees to contribute their ideas, perspectives, and experiences to help us create an inclusive and equitable workplace. By embracing diversity and providing equal opportunities, we believe we can drive innovation, foster creativity, and achieve our shared goals. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability , we can continue to build a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed and thrive.

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Summary of Role &

Key Responsibilities Summary of Role Currently, there are sustainable product services (such as ideation, materials innovation, certification and green claims) being delivered within other business lines across both the Advisory and Purpose Communities at Anthesis, and this role will have the remit to optimize ways of working to ensure harmonization and quality control across the service portfolio, teams and geographies. Building on a successful foundation, which includes a well-established EMEA chemistry team, strong sustainable products experience in North America, as well as emerging footprints in UK (based on a small profile of work and our legacy/new digital solutions), this role will establish cohesion across services and our collaborative response in the face of growing demand for sustainable product services.

For the first year, this post may also cover circular revenue/business models as part of their remit, while we jointly establish a footprint in the EMEA market place. This product-as-a-service model fits neatly with the wider sustainable products offering, and with the right leadership it will be possible to establish whether there is sufficient traction in EMEA for an independent service line in the future.

We are looking for someone who demonstrates strong leadership and vision to escalate the scale of impact from this service line within our business. The responsibilities of the post holder will include setting a rolling three-year ambition and business plan, taking responsibility for commercial performance, team recruitment, and development, spend management and client Responsibilities Develop and drive the EMEA Service Line business plan, go to market and operational plan in close collaboration with the Regional Business Line Lead and in-country Business Line Leads for Sustainable Production, Packaging and Circularity and Portfolio Plus and sustainable chemistry team members.

Provide clear leadership and direction to your team members on all aspects of our work related to this role, including (but not limited to) business development, technical subject matter expertise, project delivery, quality assurance, tool and digital product use, methodological best practice and client management. Develop and manage Service Line resources with particular attention to recruitment and retention to maximize opportunity, project delivery and profitability.

Perform line management responsibilities for direct reports, including conducting performance reviews and goal setting, and providing mentorship and guidance on career path development. Provide supervision, guidance, and technical leadership to clients as well as colleagues on leading practices, standards, and trends, incorporating this knowledge into consulting projects, proposals and the evolution of new services. Supervise large, complex, and dynamic consulting projects throughout their entire project cycle: initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, quality assurance and closure.

Manage key client relationships and projects, developing and deploying best practice strategies to help clients realize business value and impact. Lead business development activities for the service line including marketing campaigns, sales activities, actively engaging with new and existing clients to establish and/or grow the relationships in accordance with our client-guide management approach and developing and/or stewarding proposals and speaker…