Principal Consultant: Agri-Food

Principal Consultant:
Agri-Food

Department: Circ. & Value Chain Trans. :
Circ & Value Chain Trans.

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: United Kingdom

Reporting To: Nicola Thornley

About Anthesis Anthesis is the sustainability activator. Proud to be a B Corp, we seek to make a significant contribution to a world which is more resilient and productive. We do this by working with cities, corporates, investors and other organisations to drive sustainable performance. We develop financially driven sustainability strategies, underpinned by technical expertise and delivered by innovative collaborative teams across the world.

At Anthesis Group, we are truly committed to putting people and our planet at the heart of all we do.

Summary of Role Anthesis’ Value Chain Team operates across the private, not for profit, and public sectors with a focus on the full supply chain of a product, from raw materials up the value chain. The team consists of 3 core areas:
Responsible Sourcing & Due Diligence, Supplier Engagement and Social & Environmental Management Systems. We are seeking a Principal Consultant with a specialism in agri-food and regenerative agriculture to start within the UK Value Chain Transformation Team to support our existing client projects and to help to deliver our ambitious strategy for the agri-food sector. This role exists to support our clients on regenerative agriculture strategies and results-focused supplier engagement, with a particular emphasis on helping our global food and agriculture clients (including world-leading food and beverage clients and those with other agricultural commodity supply chains) to deliver regenerative agriculture and decarbonisation programmes.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience with food, decarbonisation and regenerative agriculture. This includes the key sustainability challenges and opportunities associated with farming. They will have practical knowledge of the role farming plays in the wider agriculture system and the commercial, operational and technological levers to affect change.

Key Responsibilities

• General Work with major global retail and FMCG clients to provide strategic solutions and direction on key sustainability challenges across a broad range of commodity supply chains.
• Drive business development in this service area, by upselling to existing clients and sourcing new opportunities, using your established network would be advantageous.
• Prepare detailed project proposals including operational and commercial estimates working with a variety of team members across the wider business.
• Lead and be responsible for client facing deliverables, such as workshops, interviews, research, data analysis and reporting writing.
• Create insightful and client ready outputs and give clear briefs to colleagues who contribute to and help shape our response to client challenges and briefs.
• Support the junior team to project manage clients on a variety of projects, acting as a key point of contact for relevant clients, as well as a senior voice across others to ensure efficient and high-quality project delivery.
• Build strong, trusting relationships with clients and gain an understanding of their business.
• Manage yourself and project teams to drive project profitability and account growth, ensuring projects are delivered with commercial success as well as impact.
• Work with key clients as part of a global team to provide ongoing sustainable agriculture and food expertise and project delivery.
• Review primary supplier engagement data across a variety of sectors and projects to support client decarbonisation opportunities.
• Input into training collateral to support engaging and upskilling key clients, their supply chains and other key stakeholders.
• Support clients with expert advice with the setting of and delivery of progress against SBTi and client decarbonisation journeys in agricultural supply chains across sectors, including FLAG.
• Hold 1:1 meetings, interfacing with key internal Anthesis teams, client stakeholders and third parties to provide insight and support on production systems and sustainability…