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.