Chief Executive Officer (CEO) City Science Consulting

Leadership 

• Provide strategic leadership by setting and delivering the company's vision, growth ambitions and key targets 

• Oversee business operations and ensure operational excellence across all departments 

• Cultivate a positive company culture that fosters innovation, collaboration, and excellence 

• Ensure staff are bought into the mission and ensure that roles, objectives/targets, progress and personal development plans are clearly defined and communicated through the organisation 

• Mentor and support second-tier management to optimise the performance and skills development of staff across the consultancy business 

• Overall, you will lead a talented interdisciplinary am, conducting work on high-profile client projects. The ability to provide clear strategic leadership and support in areas such as project management, resource planning, contractual matters, business development, technical delivery and stakeholder management will be essential. 

• Risk Management – taking responsibility for identifying, assessing, and mitigating business risks 

Thought-Leadership and Quality Assurance 

• Ensuring City Science remains at the forefront of technical and policy developments within Net Zero, providing clear thought leadership and motivating and supporting the team to do the same

• Managing and providing quality assurance, technical oversight, advisory and analysis as required as Project Director across a range of decarbonisation projects

Business Growth and Profitability 

• Take ownership and responsibility for the overall consultancy pipeline and P&L being accountable to the board 

• Strategically plan consultancy business development and client positioning activities, leading the team to ensure a consistent and healthy pipeline of work 

• Drive business growth through a systematic approach providing clarity, accountability, transparent progress monitoring and remedial action  

• Leading delivery of specific business development activities, including direct client outreach and developing successful tenders and proposals 

• Build and maintain relationships with key clients, partners, and stakeholders ensuring successful customer engagements 

• Be a key representative of the company externally 

• Monitoring industry trends, undertaking competitor analysis and strengthening our market intelligence

Project Delivery 

• Take overall responsibility for successful project delivery across the portfolio of consultancy projects ensuring: 

• Clear monitoring against milestones, budget and quality 

• Clarity and forward planning around resourcing needs 

• Quality control across all projects 

• Ensure the highest-levels of customer satisfaction 

• Initiate remedial action as required to keep projects on track to deliver high quality, profitable projects delivered to agreed timescales  

• Provide clear, expertly-considered frameworks to drive profitability and enhanced project processes to increase delivery efficiency 

• Provide leadership as Project Director on selected high-profile projects that sit within your areas of technical expertise