Director of Energy & Environment

Location: Remote with flexible working arrangements, all UK based locations considered. Our flexible office collaboration spaces, for those wishing to use them, are in Birmingham, London and Exeter
Term/Hours: Permanent. 32-40 hours per week, with flexibility over working pattern - please state in your application.

Salary: Competitve with Peformance Related Bonus

CVS FROM RECRUITERS (INCLUDING THOSE ON OUR PSL) WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED - DIRECT APPLICATION ONLY

About Us

City Science is an industry-leading sustainability, engineering, research and planning consultancy, committed to supporting regions and organisations to reach Net Zero. We partner with local authorities, developers, and organisations to deliver sustainable change.

Position Overview

We are seeking a Director of Energy & Environment to lead the division and contribute to City Science's next phase of growth. The ideal candidate will combine strong business acumen and demonstrable people management skills with a passion for sustainability and engineering, and a deep understanding of the intersection between technology, data science, and regional planning.

Role Responsibilities:

Business Growth and Profitability

• Drive Business Development (strategy and delivery) - ensuring the Energy & Environment team is successful with a continuous, healthy and growing pipeline of work.

• Take ownership and responsibility for the overall Energy & Environment P&L being accountable to the CEO of Consulting

• Drive business growth through a systematic approach providing clarity, accountability, transparent progress monitoring and remedial action

• Build and maintain relationships with key clients, partners, and stakeholders ensuring successful customer engagements

• Be a key representative of the company externally

Leadership

• Manage a team of engineers and consultants to ensure high-quality deliverables, foster a culture of collaboration and innovation, and drive impactful results in the field.

• Ensure staff are bought into the mission and ensure that roles, objectives/targets, progress and personal development plans are clearly defined and communicated through the organisation

• Mentor and support second-tier management to optimise the performance and skills development of staff across the consultancy business, supported by our in-house People Team

• Work as part of the Senior Management Team to ensure the organisation exceeds its goals.

Project Delivery

• Take overall responsibility for successful project delivery across Energy & Environment ensuring:

• Clear monitoring against milestones, budget and quality

• Clarity and forward planning around resourcing needs

• Ensure the highest-levels of customer satisfaction

• Initiate remedial action as required to keep projects on track to deliver high quality, profitable projects delivered to agreed timescales

• Risk Management - taking responsibility for identifying, assessing, and mitigating business risks

• Quality control across all projects

Thought-Leadership and Quality Assurance

• Provide leadership as Project Director on selected high-profile projects within Energy & Environment. Managing and providing quality assurance, technical oversight, advisory and analysis as required to ensure successful delivery.

• Utilise cutting-edge technology and tools, such as advanced simulation software and data analytics platforms, to conduct comprehensive analysis, model scenarios, and robustly forecast future trends.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in the energy and environmental sectors to drive continuous improvement, strengthen market intelligence and ensure City Science remains at the forefront of the industry.

• Ensuring City Science remains at the forefront of technical and policy developments within Net Zero, providing clear thought leadership and motivating and supporting the team to do the same.

What We Need

You will lead from the front. You will be strategic, but you need to be able to demonstrate delivery - not just strategy.

You will provide clarity and consistency, demonstrating systematic, logical and methodical decision-making processes supporting the team to work within structured frameworks.

You will successfully manage upward, bringing the CEO / wider stakeholders with you on all decisions.

The ideal candidate will meet the following requirements:

• Proven track record of securing and managing a growing pipeline of work

• Proven experience of winning new business

• Demonstrable experience of P&L and pipeline ownership (at least £3m revenue and profitable project delivery)

• Ability to demonstrate Director-level knowledge of commercial matters (contracts, legal, compliance, budgeting, planning and profitability)

• Growth mindset

• Proven expertise within Energy & Environmental engineering / Net Zero

• Proven track record of leading and managing Energy & Environmental engineering / Net Zero projects

• Excellent leadership and team management skills. Demonstration of a structured and logical approach.

• Experience of leading and managing a team

• Experience monitoring and driving success, including leading and developing staff within a high-performance environment

• Demonstratable ability of developing and maintaining client relationships

• Degree in a technical or scientific field

• Strong understanding of urban planning, smart city technologies, or related fields

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills (including exceptional written and grammatical skills)

• Experience with software development teams and projects desirable

Further Information

We are building a team who are motivated by collaboration with the desire to solve problems for our customers. We want people to own their field of responsibility, take decisions, be pro-active and have pride in everything they do. Our team of experts includes prize-winning consultants, experienced technologists and distinguished academics.

Rewards & Benefits

• Opportunity to oversee considerable business growth

• Performance-related bonus

• Flexible and remote working arrangements

• 25 days annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays

• Buy/Sell annual leave policy

• Membership of our group pension scheme

• Enhanced maternity and paternity policy

• Eye care policy

• Cycle to work scheme

• Employee assistance program

• Opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects across the consultancy business

• Ongoing mentoring, training and support from board members from across the wider business