Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world. 

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world. 

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable. 

We also offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. 

Growth and Opportunity 

We are looking for a candidate whose key strength is the management of complex consultancy projects/programmes and stakeholder engagement, ideally with a background in sustainable aviation, and/or wider transport and climate policy. 

Your work will involve project management and stakeholder management activities including client and partner relationship management. Many of our projects are complex multidisciplinary studies often involving several partner organisations and challenging logistical aspects, such as the organisation of workshops or training events overseas – we require candidates with some experience managing such projects.  

Our work is focused on strategic policy advice covering a very wide range of issues and plays an integral role in driving regulatory approaches in the UK, Europe and worldwide. Projects are likely to include a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis, including analysis of policy costs/benefits, stakeholder consultation, survey design/implementation and making policy recommendations. We also work with the private sector and support companies’ decarbonisation efforts, empowering business leaders with award winning consultancy advice. 

You will have the capacity to work flexibly across a range of thematic areas in aviation and climate policy, and will collaborate closely with other technical experts in multi-disciplinary teams. You should enjoy building relationships and demonstrate exceptional critical thinking and leadership skills. The role will also include carrying out stakeholder consultation with industry and government representatives.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Leading the delivery of large complex consulting projects and programmes related to sustainable aviation and climate or transport policy. Responsibility for client satisfaction, timely delivery, coordination of partner inputs, project financial management and ensuring high-quality outputs.  

• Carrying out a wide range of stakeholder consultation activities. 

• Development and maintenance of close client and partner relationships at high level to support the winning of new business. 

• Support bidding especially related to new programmes and/or stakeholder consultation opportunities. 

• Manage, supervise and/or coach junior members of the team to help them achieve their full potential. 

• Representing Ricardo and presenting our work at external events and engaging in wider business development activities. 

Key Competencies and Experience  

• Educated to a Master’s degree level or higher in a related discipline such as sustainability, sciences, economics, geography, engineering (e.g. aeronautical, civil, chemical), political science.  

• Experience in managing consultancy projects and/or programmes, and stakeholder consultation activities. 

• Relevant consultancy or advisory experience within the public or private sector, ideally on sustainable aviation and/or wider transport and climate policies. 

• Excellent problem-solving skills. 

• Great communicator, written and verbally including the ability to convey technical subjects clearly and concisely to a range of clients. 

• Ability to utilise existing sector contacts to support new opportunities and build trust-based relationships with clients and potential partners. 

• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a diverse team of specialists ranging from energy systems, engineering, alternative fuels to climate change experts. 

• Excellent time management with the ability to juggle time across multiple projects and prioritise deadlines seamlessly. 

• Fluency in English and excellent reporting writing skills. 

Desirable Competencies and Experience  

• Experience of working with the European Commission or other similar clients. 

• Strong knowledge of relevant regulations and frameworks, such as ICAO’s Long term aspirational goals, CORSIA and EU Fit for 55 package. 

• Familiarity with policy evaluation analysis methods and tools. 

• Experience of organising workshops or the delivery of technical assistance 

• Understanding of quantitative scenarios and models. 

• We operate on a broad range of international projects within Europe, Latin America & South East Asia so fluency in other languages from these geographies is a bonus but not essential. 

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.