Principal Consultant – LCA & CBAM
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead complex CBAM and LCA engagements, including exposure assessments, embedded-emissions calculations, and strategic advice for importers and non-EU suppliers. Translate evolving regulatory developments into practical guidance for clients while managing project scope, budget, and quality across multidisciplinary teams. Drive commercial growth by developing go-to-market plans, crafting compelling proposals, and converting existing relationships into scalable service offerings. Act as a trusted senior adviser for executive-level stakeholders, representing Anthesis at external forums and coaching consultants to strengthen technical and commercial capabilities.
Required Qualifications
- Strong practical knowledge of the EU CBAM Regulation, including its technical requirements, business implications, implementation challenges and likely future development
- Extensive professional experience conducting and leading a broad range of Life Cycle Assessments and product carbon footprints
- Excellent practical understanding of LCA standards, methodologies, data quality, modelling choices and interpretation
- Advanced experience using SimaPro
- Demonstrable experience leading complex consulting projects and multidisciplinary project teams
- Excellent client-management skills, including experience advising senior stakeholders and managing challenging client situations
- Strong business-development capability, with a track record of understanding client needs, developing compelling proposals and converting opportunities into work
- Strong strategic and commercial judgement, including experience developing propositions, go-to-market plans, campaigns or other structured growth initiatives
- Ability to translate robust technical analysis into clear recommendations and commercially relevant stories that drive action
- Excellent written and verbal English
Desired Qualifications
- Experience delivering CBAM work for both EU importers and non-EU producers or suppliers
- Experience with supplier engagement, primary-data collection and product or installation-level emissions calculations
- Experience developing or scaling new consulting propositions or service lines
- Familiarity with digital LCA, carbon-accounting or supply-chain data tools
- Experience working in a professional-services or sustainability-consulting environment, with an understanding of project profitability, utilisation, pipeline management and revenue growth
- Relevant postgraduate qualification in LCA, environmental science, engineering, sustainability, carbon management or a related discipline
- An additional European language
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