Principal Consultant – LCA & CBAM

Department: Circ. & Value Chain Trans. : Advisory

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Flexible

Description

Key Responsibilities

• 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-footprinting engagements: Lead the technical design of a broad range of LCA, product carbon footprinting 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 SimaPro, 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 needs rather than simply responding to the initial request. 
• Develop clear, differentiated and commercially compelling proposals, bringing together the right technical scope, delivery model, team and pricing approach. 
• Work with colleagues across sectors, regions and business lines to identify opportunities, develop integrated propositions and convert existing relationships into new work. 
• Drive strategic and commercial growth Lead the development and execution of the go-to-market plan for Anthesis’s CBAM offering, with additional responsibility for supporting growth across the wider LCA portfolio. 
• Assess market trends, regulatory developments, competitor activity and client feedback to identify priority markets, client segments and service opportunities. 
• Develop practical growth initiatives, including targeted campaigns, client propositions, thought-leadership activity, partnerships, events and sales-enablement materials. 
• Help evolve Anthesis’s CBAM offer beyond individual advisory projects towards scalable programmes, managed services, digital tools and recurring client relationships. 
• Track pipeline, sales performance and market response, adapting the growth plan based on evidence and results. 
• The strategic component should remain prominent: the role needs someone who can spot market opportunities, develop the offering and successfully commercialise it, rather than focusing exclusively on project delivery.
• Lead projects, teams and quality Provide strong project leadership across complex, multidisciplinary engagements, ensuring that scope, budget, timelines, risks and client expectations are actively managed. 
• Lead project teams with clarity and confidence, delegating effectively while remaining accountable for overall quality and delivery. 
• Coach and support consultants, helping strengthen technical capability, commercial confidence and client-management skills across the wider team. 
• Contribute to the development of consistent methodologies, templates, quality controls and efficient delivery approaches. 
• Communicate with impact Turn detailed regulatory and technical analysis into compelling stories with clear commercial relevance. 
• Produce concise, persuasive reports, presentations, proposals and thought-leadership materials. 
• Represent Anthesis in webinars, conferences, client events and other external forums. 
• Communicate with sufficient technical authority to engage LCA specialists and regulatory experts, while making the implications understandable and actionable for procurement, finance, sustainability and executive audiences. 

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Strong practical knowledge of the EU CBAM Regulation, including its technical requirements, business implications, implementation challenges and likely future development. 
• Extensive professional experience conducting and leading a broad range of Life Cycle Assessments and product carbon footprints. 
• Excellent practical understanding of LCA standards, methodologies, data quality, modelling choices and interpretation. 
• Advanced experience using SimaPro. 
• Demonstrable experience leading complex consulting projects and multidisciplinary project teams. 
• Excellent client-management skills, including experience advising senior stakeholders and managing challenging client situations. 
• Strong business-development capability, with a track record of understanding client needs, developing compelling proposals and converting opportunities into work. 
• Strong strategic and commercial judgement, including experience developing propositions, go-to-market plans, campaigns or other structured growth initiatives. 
• Ability to translate robust technical analysis into clear recommendations and commercially relevant stories that drive action. 
• Excellent written and verbal English. 

• Experience delivering CBAM work for both EU importers and non-EU producers or suppliers. 
• Experience with supplier engagement, primary-data collection and product or installation-level emissions calculations. 
• Experience developing or scaling new consulting propositions or service lines. 
• Familiarity with digital LCA, carbon-accounting or supply-chain data tools. 
• Experience working in a professional-services or sustainability-consulting environment, with an understanding of project profitability, utilisation, pipeline management and revenue growth. 
• Relevant postgraduate qualification in LCA, environmental science, engineering, sustainability, carbon management or a related discipline. 
• An additional European language.