Associate Director - Land & Agriculture Policy

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

12/26/2024

Overview

Role: Associate Director – Land & Agriculture Policy

Location: UK / Europe based - Flexible/Remote woring

Salary: £60,000 to £75,000 plus benefits

Role ID: 2024-2535

Join Our Land & Agriculture Team as an Associate Director

Are you passionate about the supporting a sustainable Land and Agriculture sector, and experienced in Policy work? Do you thrive in a collaborative team with the added benefit of global opportunities? If so, we’d love for you to join us at Ricardo plc and help shape the future of sustainable land use.

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

We’re a global company with nearly 3,000 employees across 20 countries. Our mission is to help create a safe and sustainable world. We work with governments, private companies, and philanthropic organisations, delivering innovative, cross-sector solutions to address complex challenges.

At Ricardo, your work will have a meaningful impact, contributing to projects that make a real difference in sustainability and the future of land use and agriculture. You will have the opportunity to work on projects covering climate, biodiversity and sustainable land use.

Your Role as an Associate Director

Responsibilities

You’ll play a key role in driving growth, strategy, and project delivery in the Land use and Agriculture space. Responsibilities include:

• Developing new business opportunities and nurturing client relationships.
• Representing Ricardo at industry forums, conferences, and thought leadership initiatives.
• Analysing land use trends and policies to provide strategic insights and recommendations.
• Leading high-quality project delivery and ensuring compliance with corporate and statutory standards.
• Managing and mentoring team members, fostering collaboration and professional growth both within the team and across the practices within Ricardo.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across the organisation to drive innovation and efficiency.
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Proactive, positive and pragmatic, with strong networking and relationship-building abilities both internally and externally.
• Excellent relationship building, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Commercially focused with an entrepreneurial mindset, capable of identifying and pursuing opportunities for growth, and aligning business objectives with market trends and client needs.
• Able to provide a consistent, resilient leadership shadow that promotes global inclusivity, a growth mindset and collaboration across the organisation, and embodies the Ricardo values.
• Analytical, with the ability to make connections across a complex organisation.
• Proven experience in client relationship management, with a strong network within policy (ideally European), the Land sector or related industries.
• A track record of winning new business through active engagement with industry stakeholders, collaboration with partners and leveraging networks to identify and win successful projects.
• Proven strong people leadership, including development, mentoring and coaching of individuals and being an inspirational presence for the wider business.
• Proficiency in project management and strategic planning, with a results-oriented approach.
• Appropriate industry and market knowledge relevant to the Land sector and associated environmental policy and regulation.
• Used to working with business systems and analysing financial/operational data and utilising these to make decisions and continuous improvements.
  
  

Desirable Skills/experience

• Technically relevant degree level or suitable academic qualifications and experience.
• A passionate advocate for sustainable land use and agricultural practices.
• Ability to think critically and creatively to address complex policy challenges.
• Experience working across business areas and capabilities to create differentiated solutions and develop new business.
• Appreciation of and receptiveness to digital enablement and systems implementation.
• Experience of working in a global organisation.
  
  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.