Principal ESG Consultant

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

We are seeking an experienced Principal ESG Consultant to lead and deliver high-impact ESG advisory projects across multiple sectors. You will act as a senior technical authority, driving ESG strategy development, governance integration, and reporting readiness for our clients.

• Lead and deliver complex ESG advisory engagements across multiple sectors.
• Act as senior technical authority shaping ESG strategy, governance integration, and reporting readiness.
• Embed ESG within client investment, risk, and decision‑making processes.
• Contribute to business development, thought leadership and practice capability building.
• Lead ESG strategy development, materiality assessments, governance frameworks and implementation programmes.
• Build ESG KPIs, dashboards, target‑setting methodologies and performance tracking systems.
• Lead sustainability reporting cycles and align disclosures with CSRD, EU Taxonomy, GRI, IFRS/ISSB and similar frameworks.
• Manage senior client relationships, ensuring high‑quality delivery, risk management and advisory excellence.
• Mentor and line‑manage team members; oversee resource allocation and technical quality.
• Support proposals, bids and account growth opportunities; maintain commercial discipline across engagements.
• Financial:
  Manage project budgets, margin performance and consultant utilisation.
• Project Delivery:
  Lead multi‑stream, complex ESG advisory projects to defined objectives.
• People Responsibility:
  Line‑manage 4–6 team member.

• 7+ years’ experience in ESG, sustainability or related advisory fields.
• Strong technical grounding in ESG strategy, governance, reporting and regulation.

• ESG strategy development, including double/single materiality and roadmap design.
• ESG governance frameworks, stakeholder engagement processes and operating model design.
• ESG management systems, KPI frameworks, dashboards and risk integration.
• Deep experience across ESG reporting (CSRD, EU Taxonomy, GRI, IFRS/ISSB, GRESB) and audit‑ready data processes.
• Ability to ensure methodological defensibility and high‑integrity disclosures.

• Leading complex ESG engagements and ensuring quality, scope control and risk mitigation.
• Senior advisory experience with executive and investment‑level stakeholders.
• Proven capability in mentoring, supervising, and developing ESG consulting teams.

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Work streams:
Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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• Job Identification 38239
• Job Category Consulting
• Posting Date 02/20/2026, 12:07 PM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations 5th & 6th floor, London, EC3M 4BY
  , GB