Consultant

The Consultant will work on the successful delivery of projects for Clients as a member of project teams within a market program. This includes providing support to the Project Manager with initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling and closing projects. As part of a project team, the consultant will maintain relationships with Clients and key decision makers to help identify follow-on business opportunities and maintain customer intelligence.

What You Will Do

• Work on project tasks with other team members under the supervision of a task lead and/or a project manager to ensure quality services are delivered on schedule and within available budget to meet customer requirements.
• Assist project manager with defining and sequencing project tasks, estimating task duration and developing a project schedule as part of developing a project management plan
• Review project management plans to understand the scope, schedule and assigned work authorization
• Planning and scheduling client meetings
• Participating in client and project team meetings
• Assist with research and data analysis, to include but not limited to assisting with conducting customer or stakeholder analyses.
• Prepare written documents, reports, and presentations
• Develop conclusions and recommendations, write reports, and assist with client presentations
• Assisting with giving oral presentations to Clients
• Tracking and reporting hours spend executing projects
• Work with individuals at all levels, provide input to reports and other deliverables, execute multiple assignments, meet agreed deadlines, and adjust to changing client demands
• Performance quality assurance on project deliverables
• Develop relationships with existing customers to facilitate development of new business.
• Meeting with new and existing Clients to listen to their needs
• Communicating client needs to project managers and supervisors
• Identify new business opportunities with existing customers for current and/or additional services
• Participate in marketing activities, conference presentations, technical whitepapers
• Participate in proposal development including writing proposals, estimating level of effort,
• Learn, understand and be conversant in ABS Group products and services
• Review published reports and news articles about existing and potential new Clients to identify customer intelligence
• Networking to meet new potential Clients

What You Will Need

Education and Experience

• 0-1 years of professional / work experience preferred
• Must have a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience ideally in subjects related to Geography, Earth Sciences or Environmental Science. Interest in renewable energy related activities, including research into emerging markets preferred.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Ability to gain knowledge of ABS Group products and services.
• Strong written, verbal communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Perform research and provide analysis on research performed.
• Gather and analyze data effectively.
• Apply critical thinking to a wide variety of complex problems.
• Working knowledge of Google Maps KML file coding and ability to use AI models for programming and LLM related activities.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and multitask in a busy consultancy business environment.
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Ability to gain working knowledge of the ABS Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental Management Systems.
• Must be a UK National, or with legal right to remain.

Reporting Relationships

Reports to a Manager, Director or Executive level position

Working Conditions

Work is primarily sedentary; exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects