Overview
Key Responsibilities
- Strategy & Growth: Collaborate with leadership to develop and execute the Service Area strategy, go-to-market approach, and business plans.
- Operational Leadership: Provide end-to-end direction for business development, technical excellence, project delivery, and quality assurance.
- Talent Management: Lead recruitment, retention, and performance management; provide coaching and mentorship to drive career growth and team capacity.
- Project Oversight: Direct the full lifecycle of complex consulting projects, ensuring high-quality execution from initiation to close-out.
- Client & Market Strategy: Act as a strategic advisor on market trends and regulations; manage key relationships to deliver measurable business value and sustainability impact.
- Business Development: Partner with regional teams to shape opportunities, lead sales activities, and oversee proposal development.
- Service Innovation: Define and evolve market-leading offerings, creating the frameworks, assets, and methodologies needed to stay competitive.
- Financial & Quality Control: Manage financial performance in alignment with global business lines and establish rigorous quality standards and training programs.
- Collaborative Excellence: Partner with global peers to advance thought leadership and share best practices across the organization.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- 10+ years in sustainable finance, ESG integration, responsible investment, and/or financial services advisory.
- Proven experience leading portfolio-level ESG strategies, due diligence, and/or sustainable finance frameworks.
- Track record in business development and managing complex consulting or financial sector projects.
- Strong knowledge of key frameworks: EU Taxonomy, CSRD (FI), SFDR, PCAF, TCFD, ISSB.
- Expertise in some or all of: ESG due diligence; ESG strategy development; portfolio screening, performance improvement, monitoring and reporting; climate/transition risk, and/or investment-grade ESG insights.
- Ability to simplify and communicate complex ESG and regulatory topics.
- Experience building, leading, and developing teams.
- Strong line management capability: performance, coaching, and talent development.
- Ability to set strategic direction and coordinate across global/matrixed teams.
- Ability to lead go-to-market strategies, shape offerings, and convert opportunities.
- Strong relationships and relationship-building skills with investors, PE, banks, and corporates.
- Experience preparing proposals, scopes, and budgets.
- Ability to lead large, multi-disciplinary, full-cycle consulting projects.
- Strong executive-level advisory and presentation skills.
- Ability to design and evolve sustainable finance tools, methodologies, and offerings.
- Collaborative approach, working across business lines to ensure consistency and quality.
- Advanced degree in a relevant field (finance, economics, sustainability, business, etc.).
- ESG or sustainable finance certifications are a plus (CFA ESG, PRI, GARP SCR).
