Your new role – what’s involved?

As Associate Director, you will help shape and deliver our work by developing relationships with new clients and managing key strategic relationships.

As well as taking a leading role in business development, you will work with sector-leading retailers and other organisations on carbon footprint and net-zero strategy, sustainability strategy, governance and reporting, and the development of sustainable products.

You will inspire our ambitious junior consultants, helping them to deliver quality outputs and develop their skills and careers.

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Your skills and experience

You are a commercially minded and client-facing senior sustainability specialist with skills in networking, creating relationships, and a good knowledge of current and future market trends. Ideally, you are experienced in the sustainability of retail and asset management sectors and have presented or engaged clients at a senior level.

You are creative and able to think on your feet, with strong presentation and communication skills, alongside the ability to undertake and oversee quality research and technical deliverables.

Ideally, you:

• have a strong interest and knowledge of sustainability, from an environmental and/or social perspective, based on personal conviction as well as academic and/or practical experience,

• have experience of sustainability consultancy in the retail or asset management sectors, with a track record of engaging senior clients,

• excel at presentation, persuasion, and reassurance to win hearts and minds, and possess good leadership and collaboration skills,

• can work with businesses as a trusted adviser, using your deep knowledge of sustainability and market trends to encourage them to raise their sustainability ambition.

Qualifications

You will have a strong background and qualifications in sustainability, with 5-7 years of relevant experience.

About Bioregional

Bioregional is one of the UK’s original sustainability consultancies. Founded in 1994, we have been winning awards and working with partners to create cutting-edge sustainability solutions for 30 years.

As a purpose-led organisation, our mission is to help businesses and communities to respond to the climate and ecological emergency, and to create a world in which we can live happy and healthy lives within the limits of our planet’s resources.

We focus on real-world impact, acting as a ‘critical friend’ to our clients and challenging them to innovate at the boundaries of best practice. We have built our expertise, knowledge, and reputation by collaborating with leading industry players, from leading multinational retailers to housebuilders, real estate investors, pension funds, and local authorities.

We are a social enterprise. This means that unlike other consultants, we have no partners or shareholders. We use any surpluses we make to fund practical projects and educational resources that enable people to live more sustainably, and then share this learning with industry and policymakers to drive systemic change.

We are the creators of the One Planet Living framework, which provides a vision and a toolkit for creating healthy and happy lifestyles within the limits of our one planet, and which we make free to use by everyone. These principles have guided the development of exemplar projects across the world – in the UK these include BedZED, the UK's first large-scale eco-village, the sustainability strategy for London’s bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, and the UK's first eco-town, Elmsbrook, in Oxfordshire.

Your new team

At Bioregional, you will join sustainability experts who are dedicated to creating real impact that helps create a more sustainable world. We are entrepreneurial and professional, always delivering the highest standards of work and giving colleagues the freedom to innovate. And we treat everyone with respect, support our colleagues, and embrace diversity and inclusion to create an environment in which everyone can thrive.

Don’t just take our word for it, read what our former employees said about their time with us here.

At Bioregional you can work flexibly from Sustainable Ventures in central London, Europe’s largest climate tech ecosystem, offering easy commuting options and a wealth of local amenities. We also work from the Eco Business Centre – the UK’s first Passivhaus Plus offices – in Bicester, Oxfordshire.

What’s in it for you?

1. Work-life balance
Work is only one part of your life and making time for other things is important – be that your families, friends, or yourself. We are committed to giving you the flexibility to work at different locations and times, whether that be in the comfort of your own home or collaborating with colleagues in the office.

2. A commitment to diversity and inclusion
We foster a supportive, inclusive workplace where people can be themselves and achieve great things. We are committed to improving diversity and inclusion within the built environment and sustainability sectors – including our own organisation – and we expressly welcome applications from those with a disability and people of a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background.

3. Health and wellbeing
Health and wellbeing are fundamental to our ethos and our vision of a better world. We make sure we’re a great place to work through regular feedback with colleagues and run regular social activities – in person and online – to build and maintain our positive working culture. We are committed to supporting our team through a range of benefits, from our employee assistance programme to our cycle-to-work scheme.

4. Professional development
We have a learning culture and help our people to enjoy rewarding careers where they will grow and develop their skills. We build and share our knowledge through regular staff seminars and offer 10 days of training and development time each year, a training budget for each employee, plus additional support for formal training and study. Bioregional’s training pathway means that colleagues always understand and have access to the training they need to progress their career – be they an Analyst or a Head of Department.

5. An ethical employer
We live our values in everything we do. As well as working from sustainable office space alongside like-minded businesses, your benefits include a 6% employer’s ethical pension contribution and 25 days of annual leave, rising by one day for each year you work with us, for up to five years.