Overview
Role: Circular Economy Consultant
Location: London, Bristol, Harwell, Manchester, Glasgow -Hybrid
Role ID: 2025-3048
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.
Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
The Role
As a Circular Economy Consultant, you will help deliver projects that support clients in moving towards more resource-efficient and circular ways of working. You will apply your developing skills and understanding in areas such as resource efficiency, circular business models, waste prevention, sustainable packaging, product stewardship and policy development. The role will involve research, data analysis, engaging with stakeholders and producing high-quality outputs that inform decision-making and encourage the adoption of circular solutions both in the public sector and with private clients across varied industries.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver assigned circular economy-related tasks under the guidance of senior colleagues in line with internal procedures and project requirements.
- Plan and manage own workload across multiple tasks and projects, ensuring outputs meet agreed quality and timescale requirements.
- Provide progress updates to the project team and flag risks to delivery early.
- Complete high-quality written outputs, including data summaries, sections of reports, case study examples and draft presentation slides.
- Apply working knowledge of circular economy principles, policies and frameworks to contribute insight and analysis.
- Support the development of methodologies and approaches for circular economy assessments and strategy development.
- Undertake research, literature reviews, data analysis and stakeholder engagement activities, such as interviews and surveys.
- Communicate clearly with clients and stakeholders at an appropriate level.
- Participate in client workshops, stakeholder engagement activities and meetings as required.
- Support the development of client-ready deliverables and contribute to maintaining strong project relationships.
- Contribute to bids and proposals under the guidance of senior colleagues, including drafting technical content and case studies.
- Identify opportunities to enhance client experience or extend support to new areas.
- Collaborate across teams to support internal knowledge sharing and opportunity development.
- Take ownership of personal development planning and objectives through regular discussions with the Team Leader.
- Apply feedback to improve performance and contribute to a positive and inclusive team environment.
- Uphold Ricardo’s values in day-to-day working and represent the consultancy professionally.
- Uses project work and team spaces to build knowledge on circular economy and related topics, like other corporate and industrial sustainability disciplines.
Key Competencies And Experience
- Degree or equivalent in a relevant technical discipline (e.g. environmental science, engineering, materials science, economics).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly. Proficient use of office suites to craft compelling reports and slidedecks.
- Proven ability to plan and deliver work to deadlines across multiple projects.
- Numerate and detail-oriented, with strong skills data analysis within MS Excel. Use of other analytic tools is a plus.
- Ability to work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary project teams.
- Ability to understand project context and contribute technical insight.
- Technical experience in an environmental or sustainability-related field, with practical application of circular economy principles.
Desirable Competencies And Experience
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills and experience of developing professional relationships.
- Understanding of circular economy policies, regulations and market drivers.
- Experience in a consultancy or client-facing environment, demonstrating the ability to work effectively with external stakeholders. Or experience in in-house project focused roles where stakeholder engagement is needed.
Working here
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.
We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.
Benefits
We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.
Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team viarecruit@ricardo.comif you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
