Senior/Principal Consultant – ESG Advisory

Anthesis Group is seeking a Senior/Principal Consultant for their ESG Advisory team in Spain. The role involves managing major financial services clients, focusing on ESG strategy and reporting. Key responsibilities include business development, proposal support, and coordinating with global teams. The position is full-time and requires collaboration across time zones, but it is based in one of Anthesis’ European offices, indicating it is not a remote job.
Senior/Principal Consultant – ESG Advisory

Department: ESG & Reporting : ESG & Reporting

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Spain

Description

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.

At Anthesis Group, we are truly committed to putting people and our planet at the heart of all we do.

Summary of Role & Key Responsibilities

Summary of Role
Our global ESG Advisory and Reporting team specialises in providing ESG & sustainability strategy and reporting consulting services including materiality assessments, strategy development, data collection and management, reporting and training. Over the past two years the team has seen a significant increase in demand for support with mandatory disclosures (SFDR, CSRD, EU Taxonomy, TCFD), regulatory advisory and reporting services.

To sustain the growth in activity in our service area from global clients, we are seeking a highly motivated Senior/Principal Consultant to meet our clients’ needs in this exciting area of ESG advisory and reporting. The role would involve managing some of Anthesis’ largest financial services and corporate clients, including private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

In this role, you would have a unique viewpoint across all service lines. You would receive exposure to all of the unique services that Anthesis offers such as circular revenue models, human rights & social impact, Net Zero strategy, water stewardship, ESG program design and implementation, and carbon markets. The role requires collaborative coordination, diligence and the willingness to work across global time zones with Anthesis colleagues working around the world.

This role will be based in one of Anthesis’ main European offices – London, Rome, Milan, Munich, Frankfurt, Lille, Barcelona or Madrid.

Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities fall into three major areas:

New Business Development – 30-40% of time
• Maturity and Diagnostic Analysis – helping to organise and run ESG diagnostic and maturity exercises to rate the maturity of portfolio companies and identify new sustainable performance opportunities.
• Business Development Initiatives – supporting consultant SMEs to identify new business development initiatives that can be pitched to private equity clients, including helping to organise webinars, training sessions and newsletters.
• Meeting Preparation – supporting consultants with meeting research and preparation in order to best prepare them to engage with the client and present our unique range of sustainability solutions to senior decision makers.

Proposal & RFP Support – 30-40% of time
• Proposal / Bid Writing & Presentation – supporting consultants with proposal writing, coordination, and design. This will include discussing, framing, designing, pricing and presenting project proposals (with the guidance and support of colleagues). In many cases, the proposals require coordination spanning multiple consultant teams.
• Thought Leadership & Marketing – working with Marketing and consultant SMEs to develop credential and case study material for proposals as well as brand-building through the creation of IP and marketing materials.

Inbound-Lead Qualification – 10-20% of time
• Inbound Management – qualifying inbound leads and prospecting potential new business from portfolio companies and private equity clients directly. · Internal Opportunity Management – maintain data on leads, tracking business development activity, including within our CRM.
• Business Development Support - collaborating with consultants throughout the BD process via notetaking, coordination, scheduling, and proposal support.

Key Requirements, Skills Knowledge & Expertise

Key Requirements
The ideal applicant will have 4-7+ years’ experience in sustainability or consulting:
• A degree/relevant qualification in a related field (finance, sustainability, environmental management, geography etc.) or equivalent practical experience reflective of the role being applied for.
• Experience in transactions and ESG due diligence.
• Knowledge and understanding of sustainability/ESG issues and related reporting trends, drivers, and frameworks with the ability to identify and articulate opportunities to improve ESG disclosure and performance.
• Familiarity with existing and pending ESG disclosure requirements, including CSRD, SFDR, ISSB, SEC, California Climate Disclosure Rules.
• Familiarity with CRM tools such as NetSuite, HubSpot, or Microsoft Dynamics preferred but not essential.
• Good working familiarity with MS Office Suite is required, with high levels of numeracy and good Excel and PowerPoint skills preferred.
• Fluent English speaker with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to work in another Western European foreign language (French, German, Italian, Spanish) is preferred.
• Ability to travel to London and across Western Europe.

Personal Qualities
Strategy consulting is a demanding and multifaceted discipline, and great candidates will display a blend of different strengths. We don’t expect everybody to be great at everything, but in general, we value team members who are:
• Purposeful: values driven, and motivated by a desire to make a positive difference to the wider world through their work and careers.
• Strategic: the ability and drive to bridge complex, granular business situations into smart, clear, and actionable approaches to the future, through research, analysis and imagination.
• Curious: an inbuilt drive for continuous learning and growth across many domains, including sustainability topics, industries, clients and new skills.
• Collaborative: a ‘we’ not ‘I’ focused team player, who enjoys collaborating with colleagues and clients with diverse backgrounds and personalities, and contributing to shared success.
• Flexible: high levels of adaptability, with the capacity to adjust to new situations and challenges swiftly and effectively. Comfortable with conditions of ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Resilient: confident to cope with a demanding and sometimes high-pressure working environment, and with an ability to bounce back strongly from inevitable setbacks.
• Organised: disciplined, conscientious, reliable and responsive in the face of a sometimes complex and fast-moving workflow with an ability to manage a variety of projects at any one time while working independently to tight deadlines.
• Ethical: honest, open and trustworthy, with the highest standards of integrity in conduct towards colleagues, clients and collaborators.
• Proactive: the drive and confidence to anticipate and raise issues, and take the initiative where necessary, in a ‘high-permission’ team culture.
• Communicative: a clear and persuasive communicator, with the ability to distil and convey complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, and the ability to adapt communication style to difference audiences and settings.

Benefits
Your 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
• 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.