Consultant Circular Economy ​/ Senior Consultant Circular Economy

Location/s: Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, London, Bristol, Cambridge; UK

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

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Mott Mac Donald's Advisory and Programme Delivery(APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.

We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients' key challenges, combining our world‑leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

Client organisations face increasingly complex and interconnected challenges throughout their business, and drivers for change are both wide ranging and influential on each another. This includes the need to maximise investment, pursuing net zero and making the energy transition. Climate resilience, digital transformation, and environmental and social outcomes also command new ways of thinking and working.

Our range of strategic advisory capabilities help executive teams articulate the future state of their enterprise, programme or problem that aligns their people, processes, information, and technology.

Our integrated management consultancy services leverage our rich technical excellence of complex problem solving, proven through the practical delivery of projects and programmes through our asset management, business change, digital and data, and value chain solutions.

This role will support the growth of Mott Mac Donald's circular economy consultancy offer, helping clients translate circular economy principles into practical strategies, design decisions and delivery approaches. The successful candidate will join a developing cross‑unit team within Mott Mac Donald's advisory business (within the Sustainability function in Strategic Advisory/Climate, Sustainability & Social team), with the opportunity to contribute to service development, project delivery and long‑term market positioning.

The role builds on the work of a cross‑unit circular economy team that has been active for the past three years. The team combines strategic and operational responsibilities, supporting project work while developing Mott Mac Donald's wider consultancy offer. You will help progress live opportunities, strengthen internal collaboration and work with colleagues to identify relevant markets, clients and project applications for circular economy thinking.

The successful candidate will work with colleagues across the business who are already delivering circular economy work, contributing to a growing workstream as the offer develops.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Support the Technical Director and Senior Principal in developing Mott Mac Donald's circular economy offer, working collaboratively with circular…