Managing Consultant
Industrials and Technology
Location: UK, Germany or Switzerland
We are looking for a Managing Consultant to join our team to lead client projects in the Industrials and Tech Sector, working closely with the Sector Director.
Key skills and experience required
- Minimum of eight years’ experience working for a large business or consultancy in the areas of business and human rights, sustainability, or responsible sourcing
- Knowledge and experience of the industrials and tech sector particularly extractives, renewables and or large infrastructure projects
- Knowledge and experience working with community rights, understanding of issues around stakeholder engagement, community impacts from large capital projects, vulnerable and Indigenous Peoples
- Experience engaging a range of stakeholders including executives, operational leadership, functional and specialist teams and rightsholders
- Proven business development experience and skills, including building and maintaining strong relationships, developing and presenting proposals, winning business and managing large programmes of client work
- Excellent knowledge of the business and human rights agenda, key international frameworks such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and recent legislative developments
- Excellent and proven project leadership skills, including project management, client/stakeholder engagement, team management and quality delivery
- Passionate about business as a contributor to sustainable development and helping companies frame and implement ambitious commitments
- Resilient and able to work under pressure to deadlines and to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to engage with a wide range of people
Key tasks
- Manage and lead a diverse range of client projects, predominantly within the Industrials and Tech sector
- Lead, actively participate in, and contribute to detailed work
- Lead client relationships to ensure projects are delivered in line with the client’s expectations
- Develop project team members, ensuring they can enhance their skills and experience within the scope of the project
- Proactively build relationships with potential clients and key stakeholders to win business and grow existing accounts
- Lead the development of proposals and pitches
What we can offer you
- A friendly and collaborative international team who is passionate and committed to impact
- Being part of an innovative and exciting business, leading in its field, and seeking to operate responsibly itself
- The opportunity to be involved in interesting, meaningful, and impactful work
- We are a growing consultancy with plenty of opportunities to make an impact internally
- Excellent professional development opportunities
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- The successful candidate can choose to base themselves from either the UK, Germany, or Switzerland.
twentyfifty is an equal opportunity employer.
As a consultancy specialising in human rights, we seek to be an exemplary company ourselves, innovative in our own practices. It is particularly important to us to promote inclusion and provide a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect.
We recognise that diversity of thought and experience makes us a stronger team, and we work hard to ensure our recruitment decisions are free from bias. We strongly encourage qualified applicants from all walks of life to apply for our positions.
We are signatories of the UN Global Compact and the Women’s Empowerment Principles. We hold certified B Corp status.
To apply for this position please send a CV and a short (no more than one page) overview of why you want to work for twentyfifty to info@twentyfifty.co.uk.
