Senior Consultant / Manager
Senior Consultant / Manager
Job Description
JOB TITLE
Senior Consultant / Manager
BUSINESS LINE
Advisory Services
JOB OVERVIEW
Reporting into the VP of Advisory Services, the Senior Consultant / Manager will lead the delivery across a number of our consulting projects. These projects include, but are not limited to, market strategy, acquisitions scans, commercial due diligence, thought leadership and vendor selection. You will be expected to take immediate ownership of projects, identifying and driving project activities and formulating the end solution and recommendations for our clients. On our larger projects, you may be leading a team of up to four analysts but on some of our smaller engagements, you may be self-delivering the entire project. Project durations range from two weeks to up to a year.
The Senior Consultant / Manager should also be focused on continued optimization in the quality, risk management and efficiency of our project delivery. Senior Consultants / Managers build client relationships that secure ongoing revenue for the company.
ROLE TYPE
Permanent, full-time
LOCATION
London (Ability to work remotely until the Verdantix London office can fully reopen in 2021 (pending government regulations).
Required Qualifications
EXPERIENCE/DIPLOMA
- Undergraduate degree.
SKILLS/SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE
- At least five years’ experience delivering consulting engagements
- Educated to at least BA / BSc level with a preference for top-tier universities – desirable to have a relevant MSc
- Preferably consulting experience within the EHS, sustainability, operational risk or smart building environments, ideally with a technology focus.
- Knowledge of our advisory capabilities
- Experience in working with international teams located in different time zones
- Track record of producing top quality advisory deliverables and project outcomes to commercial clients
- Proven ability to present to workshops composed of senior managers
- Experience in interviewing senior managers over the phone and in person to collect business information
- Excellent time management skills and organisational skills with a verifiable track record of meeting deadlines
- High ethical standards
SPECIFIC BUSINESS UNDERSTANDING
- Excellent client interaction skills, collaborative work style, and strong team skills
- Accountability for results
- Attention to detail & extremely well organised
- Quantitative, analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual thinking skills
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,)
- Ability to identify key issues, analyse data, and make recommendations to address problems
- Ability to think globally and discuss multiple aspects and impacts of issues
- Perfect written English and fluent spoken English
MAIN ACTIVITIES
- Lead delivery of complex strategy projects
- Manage multiple projects in parallel
- Deliver high quality deliverables to our clients that promotes repeat business
- Anticipate, mitigate and communicate project risks
- Interface with client leads and become a trusted advisor to the client
- Interview senior executives
- Define, lead or conduct a range of quantitative and qualitative analyses to support project analysis and recommendations
- Drive advisory capability development
- Identify commercial opportunities and work with sales colleagues to win business
- Coach and lead junior colleagues on advisory projects
- Speak at UK and international conferences
For more information please contact Liz Auerbach at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Marketing Director
Marketing Director
Job Description
JOB TITLE
Marketing Director
BUSINESS LINE
Marketing
JOB OVERVIEW
Reporting to the CEO, the Marketing Director leads the marketing and events team, owns the marketing budget, participates in the management team, is responsible for the events product P&L and sets the strategy for all marketing, communications and events. The initial assignment is to expand the marketing and events team and develop a systematic approach to deliver superior results.
ROLE TYPE
Permanent, full-time
LOCATION
Central London
Required Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
- Marketing strategy development for a high growth business
- Team management and career development for a minimum of four employees
- Understanding of business issues and buying personas in EHS, sustainability, ESG, real estate, facilities management, industrial operations and engineering a significant plus
- Educated to degree level with a preference for top-tier universities – desirable to have a relevant Master’s degree or MBA
CORE SKILLS
- Experience developing annual and three-year marketing strategies for small to medium sized businesses
- Ability to assess all aspects of marketing activities across packages, pricing, channels and processes to identify improvement opportunities
- People management skills including managing managers
- Understanding of how to deliver profit from an event product line including both virtual events and in-person executive summits
- Knowledge of how to pro-actively manage the relationship between marketing and sales
- Planning, directing and monitoring the implementation of an annual marketing plan to budget
- Identifying new opportunities and threats and making recommendations to the CEO on how to respond
- Conducting research on buying personas, buying concepts and buying processes to improve commercial success
- Defining, implementing and enforcing brand guidelines in all marketing collateral and digital media
- World class sense of humour
MAIN ACTIVITIES
- Review the Verdantix strategic marketing plan to develop a new three-year strategy to double the size of the business
- Motivate the employees in the marketing and events and create a career development framework to expand the function’s resilience and performance
- Represent the marketing and events function at Verdantix management team meetings and actively contribute to cross-functional projects
- Monitor spend against quarterly budgets in collaboration with finance function
- Quickly develop an understanding of Verdantix buying personas and buying concepts to improve communications strategies, marketing activities and boost sales
- Assess current use of digital marketing technologies by Verdantix and identify improvements which automate more processes
For more information please contact Liz Auerbach at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Research Director - ESG & Sustainability
Research Director - ESG & Sustainability
Job Description
JOB TITLE
Research Director
BUSINESS LINE
ESG & Sustainability
JOB OVERVIEW
Reporting to the Chief Research Officer, the Research Director sets the commercial and research strategy for the ESG & Sustainability research team located in New York and in London. This individual will have excellent client facing skills, a deep knowledge of research methodologies and experience in managing analysts as well as research projects and consulting projects. The successful candidate will have the ambition, intellectual prowess and management skills to drive the team forward.
ROLE TYPE
Permanent, full-time
LOCATION
Greater Boston Area
Required Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
- Significant work experience in a technology research firm at Senior Analyst, Principal Analyst or Research Director level
- Deep knowledge of software business growth strategies and operating models from research, advisory or in-house work experience
- Understanding of financial ESG, climate change or sustainability business issues a significant plus
- Educated to degree level with a preference for top-tier universities – desirable to have a relevant MSc, MBA or PhD
CORE SKILLS
- Experience implementing market research methodologies such as market size & forecast, customer surveys and technology product benchmarks
- People management skills either in the context of team line management or project management
- Proven ability to manage the production of high-quality written deliverables for executive clients
- Intellectual confidence to develop strong recommendations for clients to make major investment decisions
- Commercial perspective and ability to help win new business through sales support, client meetings and networking
- Willingness to travel for client meetings on an ad hoc basis for short periods typically no longer than 3 days
- World class sense of humour
MAIN ACTIVITIES
- Grow the ESG & Sustainability research practice by delivering influential studies and establishing long-term relationships with C-level clients
- Create an annual research plan to anticipate client needs and deliver data and insights which convince clients to renew their contracts
- Deliver the reports in the research plan on time and to agreed quality levels
- Provide feedback to analysts to improve the structure, key messages, language and business insights of written research deliverables
- Manage analysts on a day-to-day basis to help them develop research skills, presentation skills, client facing skills and writing skills
- Scope and design consulting projects with business analysis skills and conceptual thinking
- Articulate the value of Verdantix research to new prospects in sales calls, meetings, conferences and networking events
- Develop deep client relationships with individuals in roles like Head of ESG, VP Sustainability, Global Practice Leader and technology CEOs
- Give speeches at industry conferences and client events to build awareness of the Verdantix brand
For more information please contact Liz Auerbach at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
