Senior Analyst

About the Senior Analyst Role

We’re looking for a Senior Analyst to join our team. You will have a genuine passion for making a difference and a desire to work with the business world to achieve that. You will be interested and inquisitive, have excellent communications skills and be able to manage competing priorities and deadlines. Senior Analysts are an integral part of the BRODIE team, working on UK and international client projects.

You will be interested and inquisitive with an aptitude for engaging and compelling communication and stakeholder engagement. You will be a critical thinker adept in building trusted client relationships across short- and long-term projects and have a consistent record of delivery to a high standard.

What you’ll be doing

You will be working on a range of strategy, engagement, communications, and operational projects for UK-based and international clients.

As well as contributing to a broad range of international projects there will also be opportunities to work on sustainability reporting and communications projects. You will need to be comfortable working with both data and narrative content and able to easily translate complex information into engaging insights. You will also support the end-to-end delivery of public-facing reports, which will be both sustainability and issue-specific.

Key responsibilities include:

Client project delivery (80%)

• Shaping (with support) and then conducting desk-research on a wide range of topics including sustainability topics and company performance
• Analysing quantitative data and information and forming summaries and opinions from the data
• Writing briefing papers for clients on key topics
• Supporting the creation of training and engagement programmes
• Managing projects with support of senior colleagues
• Managing agendas and minutes for client meetings
• Crunching numbers and datasets, making sense of complex information and hunting down the most salient facts.

Business Development (5%)

• Supporting on the development of project pitches and proposals
• Providing design support for BRODIE documents in line with brand guidelines

Knowledge management and continuous learning (10%)

• Sharing research and insights with the wider team and developing areas of particular expertise
• Preparing presentations, research materials and written reports

Organisational Management (5%)

• Support operation of projects in line with the overall BRODIE processes and systems
• Provide support for analysts offering practical advice and encouragement
• Attend BRODIE team meetings and training, project updates and trainings

What we are looking for

The ideal candidate will have the desire to be part of a small yet fast-growing company and have a proven track-record of corporate sustainability with a minimum of 18 months’ relevant experience.

While not essential experience in ESG/sustainability reporting, communications and communications project management is desirable.

Skills and experience

• A minimum of 18 months’ experience working in corporate sustainability (or closely connected field)
• Educated to bachelor’s degree level
• Good knowledge of issues surrounding environmental and social topics. Examples of topics may include climate change, nature, human rights, DE&I.
• Experience working on multiple projects simultaneously
• Skilled in building trust with colleagues and clients
• Understanding of, and keen to collaborate in the challenges and opportunities of working as a team player in a fast-paced, growing company.

Desirable skills and experience

• Familiarity with the recommendations of key disclosure standards e.g. CSRD, CSDDD, TCF, TNFD, SASB, SBT would be a welcome advantage
• Working knowledge and experience of regulatory-related communications and reporting.
• Experience of helping support creative workshops, communications and reporting projects.

Key competencies

• Time management
• Exceptional critical thinking skills and able to articulate ideas quickly
• A passion for lifelong learning
• Attention to detail including excellent numerical skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication in English
• Proactive delivery of great work to agreed timescales
• Integrity and trustworthiness

What we can offer

You’ll be working with big names on projects that make a genuine positive impact on the world

• Salary £41,000 - £46,000, dependent on experience
• Private Health Insurance
• 4% Pension Contributions
• Excellent professional development opportunities
• 25 Days Annual Leave (increasing by one day for every year of service up to 30 days)
• Some additional BRODIE benefits include: Wellness stipend, Charitable giving, Volunteering time off, Annual “special day” off of your choosing

About BRODIE

BRODIE works with organisations to support them in developing their sustainability strategy and implementation to create more responsible and sustainable businesses. We care about the impact we can make on the world with our clients.

Our work includes strategy programme creation and delivery, target setting, communications and content leadership and stakeholder engagement. We are relentless in our pursuit of new and creative approaches that deliver outstanding results for our clients. We work across sectors adding food and beverage, financial services, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods and hospitality including some of the world's biggest brands as well as purpose led startups. Our team has a unique blend of experience and expertise unified through a passion to make business thrive.

BRODIE is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an environment where people feel welcome respected and free to be themselves, we welcome applicants of all gender, identities, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicities.