Principal Consultant – LCA & CBAM

Principal Consultant – LCA & CBAM

Department: Circ. & Value Chain Trans. :
Advisory

Employment Type: Permanent
- Full Time

Location: UK
- London

We are looking for an exceptional Principal Consultant with deep expertise in Life Cycle Assessment and the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, as well as a track record of strategic service-line leadership and commercial growth. (

Note:

We are welcoming applicants based in the UK and EMEA for this role.)

This is a senior, client-facing role combining technical leadership, project delivery, business development and strategic growth. You will lead complex LCA and CBAM engagements, act as Anthesis’s lead consultant for CBAM work, and help clients understand and respond to the rapidly evolving commercial and regulatory landscape. Just as importantly, you will help grow our business.

This role is suited to an entrepreneurial sustainability innovator who can move comfortably between detailed technical analysis, senior client conversations and strategic business-building.

Why this role exists: LCA and product carbon foot printing are becoming increasingly important to corporate decision-making, regulatory compliance, product strategy and value-chain decarbonisation.

At the same time, EU CBAM is moving from a reporting obligation into a material financial and operational issue, while other countries look to implement similar poligies. Importers and suppliers need to understand their exposure, improve the quality of their emissions data, engage complex supply chains and make decisions about sourcing, product design, pricing and investment.

Anthesis has established technical capabilities, client relationships and delivery experience in both areas. We are now looking for a senior consultant who can lead high-quality delivery while helping us turn these capabilities into a stronger, more scalable and commercially successful offering.

• Lead CBAM projects and technical delivery:
  Lead Anthesis’s CBAM service, maintaining a detailed and continuously updated understanding of the regulation, its implementation and its implications for importers and non-EU suppliers.
• Lead complex CBAM engagements, including exposure assessments, embedded-emissions calculations, supplier data collection, emissions reporting, cost modelling, implementation planning and strategic advice.
• Translate regulatory developments into clear, practical guidance for clients, helping them understand not only their compliance obligations but the wider commercial, procurement and supply-chain implications.
• Maintain a forward-looking perspective on likely regulatory developments, implementation challenges, market responses and emerging client needs.
• Lead LCA and product-foot printing engagements:
  Lead the technical design of a broad range of LCA, product carbon foot printing and related analytical projects, providing project leadership throughout.
• Select appropriate methodologies, system boundaries, data sources, assumptions and modelling approaches, ensuring that outputs are technically robust, transparent and appropriate for the client’s intended use.
• Oversee modelling in Sima Pro, review technical work completed by other team members and maintain consistently high standards of quality.
• Apply LCA findings to real-world business decisions, including product strategy, eco-design, procurement, supply-chain decarbonisation, regulatory compliance and commercial positioning.
• Create trusted client partnerships Build a strong understanding of clients’ operations, commercial pressures, value chains and strategic priorities.
• Turn complex technical and regulatory issues into clear, decision-useful insights for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Act as a trusted senior adviser, confidently leading client meetings, workshops and executive-level presentations.
• Develop strong, long-term client relationships and proactively identify opportunities to extend Anthesis’s support.
• Win high-quality work Lead business-development conversations across LCA and CBAM, from initial opportunity identification through to proposal development, presentation and contract award.
• Diagnose what the client actually…