Principal Consultant - Net Zero Solutions

About Steer

We are Steer and we help people, places and economies thrive. Steer is a global employee-owned business consultancy specialising in transport, cities, and infrastructure, with over 530 staff in 24 offices around the world.

We have an enduring commitment to generate success for our clients, for ourselves and for the communities which we support. A commitment that ultimately improves the way people live, work and travel.

At Steer UK, our consultants work to improve the outlook of our region, ensuring that our clients keep social and environmental impact in mind as they conduct their operations. We believe that actions speak louder than words, and therefore have annual measurable targets across all social impact areas, particularly DEI and sustainability. We have also committed to successfully operate as a Net Zero Carbon company by 2025, participating in the UN's Global Compact.

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About the role

We are excited to be recruiting a Principal Consultant who will support our clients to put climate change and net-zero transitions at the centre of their strategies and to embed sustainability into their policy, investment, and operational activities.

Steer is experiencing a rapid uptake in demand from our clients for sustainability advice. We are well known for providing powerful answers to complex questions and none are more challenging or more important than how our clients can manage climate related risk and the transition to net zero carbon, including development and implementation of urban policies and business strategies that will deliver a sustainable future and rapidly address the climate emergency.

The role will be varied and expected to originate and develop opportunities for Steer to provide its comprehensive advisory function to its existing clients, and the wider market to commercialise new offerings. This will include supporting Steer's initiatives that may apply internationally, and whilst the focus will be in the delivery of advisory mandates, will also include working on tenders, presentations, and reports.

This role is to help to sustain and grow Steer's capability and capacity in Net Zero Solutions. You will join our growing team within the Infrastructure Finance and Sustainable Solutions Business Unit based in UK business but will also be part of our Net Zero community of practice which brings together colleagues across the US, India, Italy and Latin America to share best practice and learn from others and may result in opportunities to support projects across the company.

Your role will entail.

Foster long term and effective relationships with clients

Develop new relationships with central, regional and local government; infrastructure investors, developers and transport organisations through a range of marketing, thought leadership and networking activities

Develop compelling propositions and proposals to support our business development activities

Managing commercial aspects of an individual engagement to achieve desired levels of quality and profitability.

Providing commercial/technical knowledge on projects specifics to junior staff and feeding back any perceived knowledge gaps to senior management to deal with.

Passing on pertinent market/client knowledge to senior management and colleagues/ teams to aid the development of knowledge.

Contribute to the team's technical capability in areas of climate risk and adaptation, net zero transitions and energy system planning and wider sustainability impacts (viz., biodiversity, water, circular economy)

Research and continuous development to ensure we remain at the forefront of the net-zero and sustainability agendas

Work-life balance

At Steer, we believe that a healthy work-life balance is paramount to long term success, which is why all employees seeking a full-time opportunity are encouraged to spend 60% of their time either in office or on-site with clients and why we aim to keep our employee's typical work week to 37.5 hours, reflective of client needs. Hours, expectations, and exemption status will be determined for any applicant seeking a part-time opportunity.

Compensation

Steer is committed to ensuring that all its employees are compensated a fairly and at a competitive rate. All initial compensation, regardless of location, may be subject to change as skills, abilities, internal equity and geographic location are taken into account.

In addition to base salary, all employees will be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus. Please review the benefits section for more information on total reward.

Steer reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional compensation.

The ideal candidates will have the following:

Robust subject matter expertise and technical skills in at least one of these domains:

• Energy system modelling or assessments at sub-national scales, particularly in relation to techno-economic appraisal of, for example, micro-grids and decentralised/onsite generation, district thermal energy systems, energy storage (hydrogen, battery, thermal).
• Climate related risk and development of innovative solutions to adapt to those risks
• Development and implementation of ambitious sustainability strategies for a range of public and private sector clients.
• Wider sustainability impacts (viz., biodiversity, waster and circular economy) and distributional effects.
• Wider sustainability impacts (viz., biodiversity, waster and circular economy) and distributional effects.

A deep understanding of the sustainability and net-zero agenda, strategy and the policy context

Excellent numeracy skills with ability to work with large datasets and draw insights from multiple information sources using industry standard software packages;

Strong consulting skills, with experience of developing transformative strategies, focused on clients' most material issues and underpinned by robust and pragmatic analysis

Experience working with investors, developers, public sector organisations (local or regional authorities)

Ability to demonstrate the skills and capability to deliver high quality consultancy projects

Highly numerate and analytical.

Strong written and verbal communications skills, with the ability to influence clients and colleagues

A desire to learn and continually develop yourself, others and our capability

Exceptional team working and leadership skills, with the ability to develop others through mentoring

We offer a competitive package of benefits including private medical insurance and health screening, life assurance, group income protection, company pension scheme, EAP, ability to buy and sell annual leave days, Season Ticket Loan, a group Share Incentive Plan, up to 5 days for volunteering activities and a discretionary bonus scheme based on annual compensation (dependent upon individual and company performance).

Additionally, we offer 25 days annual leave, plus the 8 bank holidays and the ability to buy and sell leave in the year to give extra flexibility.

Steer is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all candidates regardless of race, color, ancestry, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Any other human expressions and experiences not mentioned here are equally welcome. If you require an accommodation, now or throughout your employment, please let us know.

In our commitment to inclusivity in the workplace, Steer has welcomed the creation of various Employee Resource Groups, dedicated to ensuring the support, progression, and well-being of all employees. For more information, check out our social responsibility page Our social responsibility Steer ().

We understand that some may be dissuaded to apply based off their compatibility with the job description. That being said, we understand that not everyone is a perfect match on paper and encourage anyone to apply regardless of how much their work experience directly relates to the job description.

Part-time and flexible working applications will be considered.