Description Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. Role description: We are looking for an Principal Carbon consultant to join our Sustainability Advisory team within our Environmental group. We are a growing team focused on delivering sustainable solutions to support our clients on their journey to carbon net zero. Working with cross-disciplinary teams we aim to take every opportunity to support our clients to go further and faster. Because we’re such a diverse business, we can offer you variety as standard. You’ll get to work on a range of different projects across various industries including the buildings and infrastructure and water sectors. The team offers an array of services to our clients from strategic support and management systems through to carbon footprinting, carbon management, renewable technologies and energy transition advice. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Role accountabilities: Provide expert advice to clients on decarbonization strategies, aligning with carbon budgets and Net Zero goals. Develop organizational and asset-level Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventories, including Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, across diverse sectors and businesses. Conduct detailed carbon assessments for buildings and infrastructure, including carbon calculations and contributions to Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs). Guide organizations in achieving corporate sustainability objectives, including compliance with SECR, CDP reporting, Science-Based Targets, and GRESB assessments. Utilise carbon accounting and life cycle assessment tools, such as OneClick LCA, E-tool, and EC3, to deliver accurate figures and actionable insights. Lead and facilitate stakeholder engagement sessions and workshops, both internally and externally, to drive collaboration and sustainable outcomes. Build and sustain strong client and stakeholder relationships, ensuring seamless communication and effective collaboration on sustainability initiatives. Support the Carbon Team by contributing to service development, promoting best practices, and driving innovation in carbon-related solutions. Manage and deliver complex projects with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring quality, timeliness, and client satisfaction. Support or lead business development efforts, including preparing client presentations, crafting winning bids, and identifying growth opportunities. Qualifications & Experience: Demonstrated expertise in carbon management, GHG accounting methodologies, and sustainability reporting frameworks. Exceptional numerical and analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights and strategic recommendations. Proven experience in client interaction and stakeholder engagement, with a strong track record of building productive relationships and delivering tailored, client-focused solutions. Skilled in delivering clear, high-quality presentations and reports that meet diverse client requirements and standards. A proactive, self-motivated problem-solver with an innovative approach to overcoming challenges and delivering results. Experience in business development, including defining project scopes, preparing business cases, planning, and delivering energy and sustainability projects. Proficient in Microsoft Excel and experienced in creating dashboards using tools like Power BI. Skilled in using a variety of carbon assessment tools, such as OneClick LCA, E-tool, or EC3. Desired: Chartership or Working towards Chartership Why Arcadis? We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy. Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success. 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