Anthesis Group
Principal Product Sustainability Consultant Department: Circ. & Value Chain Trans. : Advisory Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time Location: United Kingdom Description About Anthesis Anthesis is the sustainability activator. Proud to be a B Corp, we seek to make a significant contribution to a world which is more resilient and productive. We do this by working with cities, corporates, investors and other organisations to drive sustainable performance. We develop financially driven sustainability strategies, underpinned by technical expertise and delivered by innovative collaborative teams across the world. At Anthesis Group, we are truly committed to putting people and our planet at the heart of all we do. Summary of Role & Key Responsibilities Summary of Role Anthesis is seeking a Product Sustainability Expert (Principal Consultant) with deep experience in materials, chemistry, product design or product development to join our Circularity and Value Chain Transformation team. This role focuses on helping clients design, evaluate, and scale sustainable products, integrating environmental performance into product strategy, business models, and effective design for sustainability. You will bring a strong foundation in sustainable product development, design for sustainability, technical acumen in material science, engineering chemistry or a related field. You will have a comprehensive understanding of how product design choices influence emissions, resource use, safety, and regulatory compliance across manufacturing, use, and end of life. This is a hybrid position and can be based out of any of our UK offices. Key Responsibilities Lead and manage multiple product sustainability and eco design projects across their lifecycle, ensuring excellent client management with on time delivery, within scope, and with measurable environmental and business impact. Thoughtfully inform client strategies, with a strong ability to understand the commercial benefits and tradeoffs implied when incorporating design for sustainability. Have excellent project management skills, with the ability to delegate tasks, clearly articulate client needs, and oversee the full scope of a project. Provide strong technical oversight, quality assurance and support to colleagues and junior team members, and ensure high quality, impactful deliverables for a client. Advise clients on how to integrate sustainability into product design and development processes, including material selection, design playbooks, product architecture, durability, energy efficiency, and end of life considerations. Translate sustainability goals into product level requirements and KPIs, working alongside design, manufacturing, engineering, EHS, procurement, and product management teams. Guide the development of sustainable materials strategies, including recycled content, avoiding perfluorinated chemicals (PFAS), low carbon materials, hazardous substance reduction, and emerging alternatives. Apply knowledge of EHS regulations and standards (e.g., RoHS, REACH, chemical management, product safety) to inform compliant and responsible product design. Conduct quantitative modeling and scenario analysis to evaluate design trade offs, such as material substitution, energy efficiency improvements, or product lifetime extension. Build and maintain trusted client relationships, identifying opportunities to expand product sustainability programmes and innovation initiatives. Perform landscape assessments of industry benchmarks, competitor product strategies, and evolving regulations related to design for sustainability efforts. Collaborate with internal Anthesis experts across strategy, climate, circularity, and digital services to deliver integrated product sustainability solutions. Contribute to thought leadership on sustainable product design, life cycle thinking, and technology enabled sustainability transformation. Key Requirements, Skills Knowledge & Expertise Key Requirements Bachelor's degree in Materials Science, Chemistry, Engineering, Product Design, Environmental Science, or related field; graduate degree preferred. Extensive professional experience, including: demonstrable experience in product sustainability, sustainable product development, or life cycle based environmental assessment, and a strong background in project management Strong client management, proposal development, and account growth capabilities. Experience working directly with product design, material or chemical engineering, R&D, EHS, or manufacturing teams. Hands on experience applying sustainability considerations to materials selection, product architecture, energy efficiency, and circularity strategies. Working knowledge of EHS requirements and product regulations, including chemical compliance, PFAS regulations and product stewardship considerations. Advanced quantitative and data analysis skills (Excel required; experience with PowerBI, Tableau, Alteryx, or similar tools preferred). Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non technical stakeholders, including executives and commercial teams. Ability to work independently in a fast paced, global, virtual consulting environment. Benefits Your Benefits Work within a highly motivated team in an innovative and rapidly growing global company Opportunity to have a direct impact and be a key part of the growth and development of the business and the team Work solely on projects that have an impact on the sustainability and climate change goals/challenges for clients Opportunity to work with, collaborate with and learn from sustainability SME's who are passionate about the work they do and the impact Anthesis can have Exposure to a wide range of clients and projects on a global basis Competitive salary in line with, experience and skills Competitive benefits including flexible working, 25 days holiday and two volunteering days off and the day off for your Birthday! An opportunity to participate in the Anthesis Employee Participation Plan (EPP), an industry-pioneering employee incentive plan that allows all employees to be rewarded for the growth in the equity value of Anthesis. Cooperative, supportive and open working atmosphere.
Principal Product Sustainability Consultant Department: Circ. & Value Chain Trans. : Advisory Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time Location: United Kingdom Description About Anthesis Anthesis is the sustainability activator. Proud to be a B Corp, we seek to make a significant contribution to a world which is more resilient and productive. We do this by working with cities, corporates, investors and other organisations to drive sustainable performance. We develop financially driven sustainability strategies, underpinned by technical expertise and delivered by innovative collaborative teams across the world. At Anthesis Group, we are truly committed to putting people and our planet at the heart of all we do. Summary of Role & Key Responsibilities Summary of Role Anthesis is seeking a Product Sustainability Expert (Principal Consultant) with deep experience in materials, chemistry, product design or product development to join our Circularity and Value Chain Transformation team. This role focuses on helping clients design, evaluate, and scale sustainable products, integrating environmental performance into product strategy, business models, and effective design for sustainability. You will bring a strong foundation in sustainable product development, design for sustainability, technical acumen in material science, engineering chemistry or a related field. You will have a comprehensive understanding of how product design choices influence emissions, resource use, safety, and regulatory compliance across manufacturing, use, and end of life. This is a hybrid position and can be based out of any of our UK offices. Key Responsibilities Lead and manage multiple product sustainability and eco design projects across their lifecycle, ensuring excellent client management with on time delivery, within scope, and with measurable environmental and business impact. Thoughtfully inform client strategies, with a strong ability to understand the commercial benefits and tradeoffs implied when incorporating design for sustainability. Have excellent project management skills, with the ability to delegate tasks, clearly articulate client needs, and oversee the full scope of a project. Provide strong technical oversight, quality assurance and support to colleagues and junior team members, and ensure high quality, impactful deliverables for a client. Advise clients on how to integrate sustainability into product design and development processes, including material selection, design playbooks, product architecture, durability, energy efficiency, and end of life considerations. Translate sustainability goals into product level requirements and KPIs, working alongside design, manufacturing, engineering, EHS, procurement, and product management teams. Guide the development of sustainable materials strategies, including recycled content, avoiding perfluorinated chemicals (PFAS), low carbon materials, hazardous substance reduction, and emerging alternatives. Apply knowledge of EHS regulations and standards (e.g., RoHS, REACH, chemical management, product safety) to inform compliant and responsible product design. Conduct quantitative modeling and scenario analysis to evaluate design trade offs, such as material substitution, energy efficiency improvements, or product lifetime extension. Build and maintain trusted client relationships, identifying opportunities to expand product sustainability programmes and innovation initiatives. Perform landscape assessments of industry benchmarks, competitor product strategies, and evolving regulations related to design for sustainability efforts. Collaborate with internal Anthesis experts across strategy, climate, circularity, and digital services to deliver integrated product sustainability solutions. Contribute to thought leadership on sustainable product design, life cycle thinking, and technology enabled sustainability transformation. Key Requirements, Skills Knowledge & Expertise Key Requirements Bachelor's degree in Materials Science, Chemistry, Engineering, Product Design, Environmental Science, or related field; graduate degree preferred. Extensive professional experience, including: demonstrable experience in product sustainability, sustainable product development, or life cycle based environmental assessment, and a strong background in project management Strong client management, proposal development, and account growth capabilities. Experience working directly with product design, material or chemical engineering, R&D, EHS, or manufacturing teams. Hands on experience applying sustainability considerations to materials selection, product architecture, energy efficiency, and circularity strategies. Working knowledge of EHS requirements and product regulations, including chemical compliance, PFAS regulations and product stewardship considerations. Advanced quantitative and data analysis skills (Excel required; experience with PowerBI, Tableau, Alteryx, or similar tools preferred). Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non technical stakeholders, including executives and commercial teams. Ability to work independently in a fast paced, global, virtual consulting environment. Benefits Your Benefits Work within a highly motivated team in an innovative and rapidly growing global company Opportunity to have a direct impact and be a key part of the growth and development of the business and the team Work solely on projects that have an impact on the sustainability and climate change goals/challenges for clients Opportunity to work with, collaborate with and learn from sustainability SME's who are passionate about the work they do and the impact Anthesis can have Exposure to a wide range of clients and projects on a global basis Competitive salary in line with, experience and skills Competitive benefits including flexible working, 25 days holiday and two volunteering days off and the day off for your Birthday! An opportunity to participate in the Anthesis Employee Participation Plan (EPP), an industry-pioneering employee incentive plan that allows all employees to be rewarded for the growth in the equity value of Anthesis. Cooperative, supportive and open working atmosphere.
Anthesis Group
Principal Consultant: Agri-Food Department: Circ. & Value Chain Trans. : Circ & Value Chain Trans. Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time Location: United Kingdom Reporting To: Nicola Thornley Description About Anthesis Anthesis is the sustainability activator. Proud to be a B Corp, we seek to make a significant contribution to a world which is more resilient and productive. We do this by working with cities, corporates, investors and other organisations to drive sustainable performance. We develop financially driven sustainability strategies, underpinned by technical expertise and delivered by innovative collaborative teams across the world. At Anthesis Group, we are truly committed to putting people and our planet at the heart of all we do. Summary of Role & Key Responsibilities Summary of Role Anthesis' Value Chain Team operates across the private, not for profit, and public sectors with a focus on the full supply chain of a product, from raw materials up the value chain. The team consists of 3 core areas: Responsible Sourcing & Due Diligence, Supplier Engagement and Social & Environmental Management Systems. We are seeking a Principal Consultant with a specialism in agri-food and regenerative agriculture to start within the UK Value Chain Transformation Team to support our existing client projects and to help to deliver our ambitious strategy for the agri-food sector. This role exists to support our clients on regenerative agriculture strategies and results-focused supplier engagement, with a particular emphasis on helping our global food and agriculture clients (including world-leading food and beverage clients and those with other agricultural commodity supply chains) to deliver regenerative agriculture and decarbonisation programmes. The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience with food, decarbonisation and regenerative agriculture. This includes the key sustainability challenges and opportunities associated with farming. They will have practical knowledge of the role farming plays in the wider agriculture system and the commercial, operational and technological levers to affect change. Key Responsibilities General Work with major global retail and FMCG clients to provide strategic solutions and direction on key sustainability challenges across a broad range of commodity supply chains. Drive business development in this service area, by upselling to existing clients and sourcing new opportunities, using your established network would be advantageous. Prepare detailed project proposals including operational and commercial estimates working with a variety of team members across the wider business. Lead and be responsible for client facing deliverables, such as workshops, interviews, research, data analysis and reporting writing. Create insightful and client ready outputs and give clear briefs to colleagues who contribute to and help shape our response to client challenges and briefs. Support the junior team to project manage clients on a variety of projects, acting as a key point of contact for relevant clients, as well as a senior voice across others to ensure efficient and high-quality project delivery. Build strong, trusting relationships with clients and gain an understanding of their business. Manage yourself and project teams to drive project profitability and account growth, ensuring projects are delivered with commercial success as well as impact. Work with key clients as part of a global team to provide ongoing sustainable agriculture and food expertise and project delivery. Review primary supplier engagement data across a variety of sectors and projects to support client decarbonisation opportunities. Input into training collateral to support engaging and upskilling key clients, their supply chains and other key stakeholders. Support clients with expert advice with the setting of and delivery of progress against SBTi and client decarbonisation journeys in agricultural supply chains across sectors, including FLAG. Hold 1:1 meetings, interfacing with key internal Anthesis teams, client stakeholders and third parties to provide insight and support on production systems and sustainability hotspots. Key Requirements, Skills Knowledge & Expertise Key Requirements A degree / relevant qualification in a related field (Agriculture, Sustainability, Environmental Science). Demonstrable experience (7 + years) of working in arable/livestock/fresh produce/commodities sectors. Practical experience in project or programme management, either in house, as a consultant or an NGO environment. Strengths in working in multi-stakeholder environments, including with senior stakeholders. Working knowledge of the sustainability challenges impacting agri-food value chains with a particular focus on greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removal opportunities and regenerative agriculture. Working knowledge of SBTi and Greenhouse Gas Protocol Experience in delivering high quality and professional reports, in multiformat and for various audiences. Experience of business development and building a pipeline of commercial opportunities relevant to expertise. Line management experience of junior colleagues. Strong analytical skills and commercial acumen, with advanced Excel skills. Demonstrable experience of sustainability legislation and reporting affecting food system organisations. English language. Personal attributes and qualities Passion for improving sustainability. Output driven and accountable. Flexible and innovative. Self-motivated and collaborative. Organised, prepared and professional. Skilled communicator. Ambitious and willing to develop. Benefits Your Benefits Work within a highly motivated team in an innovative and rapidly growing global company. Opportunity to have a direct impact and be a key part of the growth and development of the business and the team. Work solely on projects that have an impact on the sustainability and climate change goals/challenges for clients. Opportunity to work with, collaborate with and learn from sustainability SME's who are passionate about the work they do and the impact Anthesis can have. Exposure to a wide range of clients and projects on a global basis. Competitive salary in line with experience and skills. Competitive benefits including flexible working, 25 days holiday and two volunteering days off and the day off for your Birthday! An opportunity to participate in the Anthesis Employee Participation Plan (EPP), an industry-pioneering employee incentive plan that allows all employees to be rewarded for the growth in the equity value of Anthesis. Cooperative, supportive and open working atmosphere.
Principal Consultant: Agri-Food Department: Circ. & Value Chain Trans. : Circ & Value Chain Trans. Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time Location: United Kingdom Reporting To: Nicola Thornley Description About Anthesis Anthesis is the sustainability activator. Proud to be a B Corp, we seek to make a significant contribution to a world which is more resilient and productive. We do this by working with cities, corporates, investors and other organisations to drive sustainable performance. We develop financially driven sustainability strategies, underpinned by technical expertise and delivered by innovative collaborative teams across the world. At Anthesis Group, we are truly committed to putting people and our planet at the heart of all we do. Summary of Role & Key Responsibilities Summary of Role Anthesis' Value Chain Team operates across the private, not for profit, and public sectors with a focus on the full supply chain of a product, from raw materials up the value chain. The team consists of 3 core areas: Responsible Sourcing & Due Diligence, Supplier Engagement and Social & Environmental Management Systems. We are seeking a Principal Consultant with a specialism in agri-food and regenerative agriculture to start within the UK Value Chain Transformation Team to support our existing client projects and to help to deliver our ambitious strategy for the agri-food sector. This role exists to support our clients on regenerative agriculture strategies and results-focused supplier engagement, with a particular emphasis on helping our global food and agriculture clients (including world-leading food and beverage clients and those with other agricultural commodity supply chains) to deliver regenerative agriculture and decarbonisation programmes. The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience with food, decarbonisation and regenerative agriculture. This includes the key sustainability challenges and opportunities associated with farming. They will have practical knowledge of the role farming plays in the wider agriculture system and the commercial, operational and technological levers to affect change. Key Responsibilities General Work with major global retail and FMCG clients to provide strategic solutions and direction on key sustainability challenges across a broad range of commodity supply chains. Drive business development in this service area, by upselling to existing clients and sourcing new opportunities, using your established network would be advantageous. Prepare detailed project proposals including operational and commercial estimates working with a variety of team members across the wider business. Lead and be responsible for client facing deliverables, such as workshops, interviews, research, data analysis and reporting writing. Create insightful and client ready outputs and give clear briefs to colleagues who contribute to and help shape our response to client challenges and briefs. Support the junior team to project manage clients on a variety of projects, acting as a key point of contact for relevant clients, as well as a senior voice across others to ensure efficient and high-quality project delivery. Build strong, trusting relationships with clients and gain an understanding of their business. Manage yourself and project teams to drive project profitability and account growth, ensuring projects are delivered with commercial success as well as impact. Work with key clients as part of a global team to provide ongoing sustainable agriculture and food expertise and project delivery. Review primary supplier engagement data across a variety of sectors and projects to support client decarbonisation opportunities. Input into training collateral to support engaging and upskilling key clients, their supply chains and other key stakeholders. Support clients with expert advice with the setting of and delivery of progress against SBTi and client decarbonisation journeys in agricultural supply chains across sectors, including FLAG. Hold 1:1 meetings, interfacing with key internal Anthesis teams, client stakeholders and third parties to provide insight and support on production systems and sustainability hotspots. Key Requirements, Skills Knowledge & Expertise Key Requirements A degree / relevant qualification in a related field (Agriculture, Sustainability, Environmental Science). Demonstrable experience (7 + years) of working in arable/livestock/fresh produce/commodities sectors. Practical experience in project or programme management, either in house, as a consultant or an NGO environment. Strengths in working in multi-stakeholder environments, including with senior stakeholders. Working knowledge of the sustainability challenges impacting agri-food value chains with a particular focus on greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removal opportunities and regenerative agriculture. Working knowledge of SBTi and Greenhouse Gas Protocol Experience in delivering high quality and professional reports, in multiformat and for various audiences. Experience of business development and building a pipeline of commercial opportunities relevant to expertise. Line management experience of junior colleagues. Strong analytical skills and commercial acumen, with advanced Excel skills. Demonstrable experience of sustainability legislation and reporting affecting food system organisations. English language. Personal attributes and qualities Passion for improving sustainability. Output driven and accountable. Flexible and innovative. Self-motivated and collaborative. Organised, prepared and professional. Skilled communicator. Ambitious and willing to develop. Benefits Your Benefits Work within a highly motivated team in an innovative and rapidly growing global company. Opportunity to have a direct impact and be a key part of the growth and development of the business and the team. Work solely on projects that have an impact on the sustainability and climate change goals/challenges for clients. Opportunity to work with, collaborate with and learn from sustainability SME's who are passionate about the work they do and the impact Anthesis can have. Exposure to a wide range of clients and projects on a global basis. Competitive salary in line with experience and skills. Competitive benefits including flexible working, 25 days holiday and two volunteering days off and the day off for your Birthday! An opportunity to participate in the Anthesis Employee Participation Plan (EPP), an industry-pioneering employee incentive plan that allows all employees to be rewarded for the growth in the equity value of Anthesis. Cooperative, supportive and open working atmosphere.