Are you prepared to take on some of the most dynamic challenges in the renewable energy sector? As an Associate Director, you will lead innovative projects that shape the global future of energy, directly impacting the industry’s growth and sustainability. This is an opportunity to be a part of a team at the forefront of strategic consulting in renewable energy, where your work will drive meaningful change.
In this role, you will support clients through market entry strategies, product development, strategic cost reduction, and industry knowledge management. Collaborating closely with senior leadership, you’ll have the opportunity to influence client decisions and help strengthen supply chains across emerging and established markets. You'll work directly with senior-level client staff, ensuring that your insights and strategies deliver tangible results.
Flexible Working Policy
Our client empowers their team to work in ways that best support their professional and personal needs. Their flexible working arrangements include:
- An average of three days working from home weekly, with two days in-office for collaborative sessions
- Part-time options for additional flexibility
- Further flexibility to accommodate short-term personal needs
Why Join Them?
As a nimble and impactful consultancy, our client offers unique advantages that larger firms cannot:
- Direct client interaction with an immediate impact on strategic projects—no repetitive tasks on individual wind farm projects
- A platform to shape the future of renewable energy on a global scale
- Opportunities to work on a variety of challenging projects from client onboarding through final delivery
- Clear paths for career progression that align with your personal goals
- A collaborative, innovative team culture that promotes learning and creative thinking
- A dedicated focus on excellence within the renewable energy sector
Your Responsibilities
As a senior consultant, your role will involve:
- Leading Strategic Projects: From assessing industry positions to designing sustainable competitive strategies, your work will ensure client success in a highly competitive market.
- Driving Growth and Influence: Seek new business opportunities, crafting proposals that enhance client success in diverse markets.
- Inspiring and Managing Teams: Support and lead colleagues, fostering a culture of excellence and preparing future leaders within the team.
- Developing Industry Knowledge: Enhance internal knowledge resources and transform data into actionable client insights.
- Innovating and Optimizing: Refine consulting processes to stay ahead in advisory practices, ensuring clients maintain a competitive edge.
- Collaborating and Networking: Utilize an extensive industry network to connect clients with partners and investors, accelerating growth opportunities.
About You
You are more than just a consultant; you are a leader, innovator, and collaborator dedicated to making a global impact. You bring:
- Deep Industry Experience: 5+ years (8+ for Associate Director) in the wind industry or related fields, with solid expertise in strategy, planning, and product development or market entry.
- Strategic Vision: Proven experience in management consulting with the foresight to create sustainable competitive strategies.
- Client Relationship Mastery: Strong skills in managing and growing client relationships, generating sales, and delivering measurable benefits.
- Leadership and Team Management: The ability to coach and motivate high-performing teams, fostering strengths and addressing challenges.
- Analytical and Technical Proficiency: Exceptional analytical abilities with a knack for quick learning and problem-solving, often working from a clean slate.
- Excellent Communication Skills: Superior verbal and written English, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly.
- Adaptability and Initiative: A proactive approach with the capacity to handle diverse, demanding workloads. You thrive in fast-paced environments and are eager to learn and mentor others.
- Passion for Impact: A deep commitment to making a positive difference in the renewable energy sector, creating strategies that support a sustainable future.
Benefits Package
Our client offers a supportive environment to expand your industry knowledge and influence. Alongside a competitive salary, team members enjoy:
- Annual Salary Reviews: Includes inflation adjustments and individual progress assessments.
- Profit-Share: Quarterly rewards for teamwork and company success.
- Pension: For UK employees, a pension plan with company contributions after three months.
- Flexible Working Options: Freedom to design work patterns around core hours, with a minimum in-office attendance.
- Holidays: 25 days plus public holidays, with options to buy or sell additional days.
- Life Assurance: ‘Death in service’ benefit equal to four times your base salary.
- Healthcare Insurance: Optional team healthcare coverage, with a small additional tax.
- Learning and Development: Support for professional development through event attendance, memberships, and qualifications.
- Employee Wellbeing: Access to mental health resources, a sustainability committee, and a diversity and inclusion group.
- Career Development Framework: Clear competency framework for each grade, with flexible career path opportunities.
- Cycle to Work Scheme: Tax savings on new bike purchases.
- Eye Tests: Coverage for routine eye exams for team members in England.
Their offices include a converted stone barn in Cricklade with ample parking, a central Glasgow location near Queen Street Station, and a London workspace close to Waterloo station. Join them to contribute to the transformative journey of renewable energy.
