This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced research analyst and writer interested in the environmental and sustainability sector. This position is full-time.

Environment Analyst is an international membership community for the environmental services space, built around our industry leading market intelligence, events and networking activities. Our team of analysts help customers examine market opportunities in the ESG, sustainability and environmental services sector. We bring together business leaders and practitioners in peer-to-peer networks and share news, reports and insight with member companies.

Our small but tight-knit team of market analysts have been producing business-critical, independent and trusted market research for 15 years. They help our clients understand and navigate the future of environmental solutions through the data products, reports and regular networking opportunities they nurture.

Responsibilities:

• Interviewing business leaders from the environmental and sustainability sector and wider industry, to understand their project and client challenges, M&A decisions, strategic challenges, and information needs.
• Lead, research, write and edit engaging articles, reports, and presentations.
• Maintain and analyse data from a wide range of sources to produce statistical models and forecasts to inform our market research reports, managing core data sets and outputs.
• Contribute to the ongoing digitalisation of our data products by developing interactive dashboards.
• Develop our capacity to produce analysis on current market trends and future outlook of the environmental and sustainability consulting sector.
• Assess the impact of broader demographic, social, commercial and regulatory changes on this sector.
• Help organise and deliver working groups, roundtables and contribute to our live and virtual events programme.
• Represent Environment Analyst at industry events and in client-facing meetings/interviews to find out more about them and tell them more about us.

Requirements:

• 2-5 years of relevant experience in market analysis, either as a research analyst or consultant.
• Highly adept at analysing and manipulating large data sets in Excel, while being capable of independently drawing insightful conclusions from available material and secondary resources.
• Experience in using interactive visualisation products (such as Power BI).
• Excellent organisational skills and a laser focus on efficient working
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and research abilities, including the ability to identify subjects that will interest our members and write about them with a focus on industry and company financials.
• Ability to write in a clear and engaging manner, argue compellingly and present data intelligently.
• A proactive and collaborative attitude, and ability to work jointly on research.
• Ability to prioritise and act on own initiative, but openly as part of a tightly knit team.
• Ability to identify issues or areas of improvement and strong problem-solving skills to address those issues.
• Comfortable working across multiple projects.
• Fluent English writing and language skills.
• Confident in public speaking and presenting.
• A first or upper second class (or expected) degree from a top university in a numerate subject. Candidates with degrees in other subjects will be considered if they have other evidence of strong numeracy.
• Direct experience in the environmental and sustainability sector is an advantage, but not required.

How to apply:

Stage 1

Please send your CV and a cover letter explaining why you believe you would be a good fit for this position to ross@environment-analyst.com. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, so candidates are encouraged to apply early.

Closing date: Friday 3rd May

Stage 2

Preferred candidates will then progress to stage two. Environment Analyst Ltd will send the preferred candidates a couple of exercises to complete designed to test data, analytical and writing skill sets.

Stage 3

Successful candidates will then have interviews with key members of the Environment Analyst team