Associate Director

LOCATION:

Hull & Leeds

SALARY:
Competitive senior leadership package with car

C3 Consultancy is recruiting an Associate Director to lead its established energy and sustainability consultancy.

You’ll lead a multidisciplinary team of Energy Consultants, Building Services Engineers and Designers while driving growth, strengthening client relationships and developing C3 Group’s profile across the industry.

This opportunity would suit an experienced professional within energy, building services or decarbonisation consultancy delivering work for external clients, covering estate energy strategies, heat decarbonisation plans, energy audits, and feasibility studies to public and private sector organisations.

• Lead and grow an established energy and sustainability consultancy, shaping its strategy, structure and future direction.
• Take full commercial ownership of pipeline, revenue, profitability, utilisation, forecasting and fee recovery.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team of Energy Consultants, Building Services Engineers and Designers.
• Combine business development, technical leadership and operational management in one influential role.
• Represent C3 externally, becoming one of the leading faces of the business with clients and across the wider industry.

• Develop and deliver the business strategy, annual plan, budget and growth objectives.
• Win new projects through bids, tenders, frameworks and proposals across Net Zero, sustainability consultancy and M&E design.
• Provide senior technical oversight across energy audits, heat decarbonisation plans, feasibility studies, retrofit programmes and low-carbon designs.
• Lead, develop and resource the technical team, introducing clear objectives, mentoring, performance reviews and development plans.
• Strengthen project governance by monitoring programmes, budgets, work in progress, invoicing, margins, quality and delivery risks.

• Strong senior-level experience within building services, energy efficiency, Net Zero or renewables.
• Client consultancy experience leading and developing technical, engineering or design teams.
• A successful track record of business development, tendering, securing projects and building senior client relationships.
• Strong commercial and financial awareness, with experience managing project performance, resources and profitability.
• A relevant engineering, energy or sustainability qualification.

• A competitive senior leadership salary with car and benefits.
• Significant autonomy to shape the strategy, commercial performance and future growth of the consultancy.
• The opportunity to build and develop a talented multidisciplinary technical teams.
• A visible and influential role working with senior clients across the public and commercial sectors.
• A genuine opportunity to become a Director.

This is an outstanding opportunity for an ambitious and commercially driven consultancy leader who is passionate about Net Zero and wants to make a genuine impact on the future growth of a business.