About Us
Sagentia Innovation provides independent advisory and leading-edge product development services to a broad range of companies from some of the world’s leading and best-known brands to start-up disruptors. We operate projects ranging in scale from £10k to £10m and serve customers across the medical, industrial, chemicals and energy, defence, food and beverage, and consumer sectors. We are part of Science Group (AIM:SAG), which has more than ten offices globally, two UK-based dedicated R&D innovation centers, and over 400 employees.
Our focus on sustainability
Sustainability is a significant area of practice within Sagentia Innovation, leveraging the unique blend of advisory, technical, compliance, and regulatory expertise across Science Group. This allows us to bring technical, commercial, and regulatory perspectives to support the world’s biggest companies in resolving their most difficult sustainability challenges.
Recent examples of sustainability challenges resolved for some of our global clients:
* Foresight: What will be the future for circularity of plastics taking into account multiple stakeholder viewpoints (regulators & policy makers, NGOs, consumers, retailers, trade associations etc) and how can R&D ensure they have the strategy for operating in the circular economy of the future?
* Strategy: How can systems change be achieved in complex multi-stakeholder systems with the intent of unlocking sustainability?
* Net Zero Roadmap: What should be the low-carbon technology roadmap for the short-, medium- and long-term, encompassing both current technology plans and newly identified technologies to close the emissions gap?
* Appraising alternative technologies: What solutions are there to replace current surfactant sources and how viable are they technically, commercially, and are they actually more sustainable across a range of metrics?
Key Responsibilities
* Lead and deliver projects delivering business value to our clients.
* Effectively generate and communicate actionable recommendations and articulate key sustainability messages with clear strategic storytelling.
* Write engaging reports, drawing on expertise from several internal and external Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
* Manage multiple projects independently across different clients with minimal supervision to meet tight and often concurrent deadlines.
* Efficiently coordinate and manage project teams, allocating tasks, providing guidance, and monitoring delivery of the different workstreams.
* Manage project plans, including project setup, monitoring actual vs forecast budget and Earned Value (EV), invoicing, and project closure to ensure project profitability and the highest level of customer satisfaction.
* Contribute to the expansion of the sustainability team by developing new service offerings, producing insightful material to support the sales process, and articulating sustainability challenges through thought leadership for internal and external audiences.
* Lead the development of new proposals/projects in close coordination with the business development teams.
* Recognize and understand how the sustainability landscape is changing due to new policy, technological, and commercial developments, and identify potential future client needs.
* Develop long-term relationships with clients, becoming their trusted advisor.
* Engage confidently with a wide variety of client stakeholders at different levels from practitioners to C-Suite executives, leading and delivering meetings/facilitating workshops.
* Clearly present project work at internal/external meetings.
* Build effective working relationships with colleagues across Sagentia Innovation and its sister companies across Science Group.
* Coach and mentor junior members of the team.
* Maintain complete client confidentiality.
* Ensure adherence to group project management practices, policies, and processes to ensure delivery of projects on time, within budget, and with quality.
Experience And Qualifications
* Master’s degree (essential) or PhD in a scientific discipline (e.g., chemistry, physics, biosciences, environmental science). Experience in sustainability-related areas preferred.
* Previous consulting experience (essential).
* Experience managing projects to tight timescales and budgets.
* Passion for, knowledge of, and working experience in sustainability (e.g., sustainability strategy, circularity, emissions reduction, water stewardship, waste reduction etc).
* Ability to explain ideas clearly and concisely to effectively communicate and gain buy-in to ideas and recommendations.
* Ability to efficiently deal with multiple tasks and prioritize under pressure.
* Flexible and adaptable approach to work.
* Strong interpersonal skills.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Ability to demonstrate good project coordination and attention to detail.
Career development
We are committed to career development and make a focused effort to offer bespoke training and mentoring to allow each individual to thrive within their environment and realize personal potential.
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package. #J-18808-Ljbffr