Circular Systems Growth Portfolio Lead

Role Description

We're looking for a leader who understands where circular systems are heading and wants the platform to shape what comes next. This isn't a role focused on producing strategies alone. You'll help clients design pilots, prove commercial value, build infrastructure, unlock investment and scale solutions that work.

You'll set the direction for a global practice, grow a significant business, and help some of the world's leading organisations turn circularity into a value system. Anthesis is a platform to multiply your impact.

We're looking for a builder. Someone who has spent their career in the engine room of the circular economy — working on:

• waste systems
• material loops
• resource recovery
• the criticality/circularity nexus
• food waste reduction and valorization
• reverse supply chains
• urban mining
• critical minerals
• secondary material markets
• circular business models and infrastructure

You'll take ownership of a portfolio that already has real scale, real clients, and a market that's accelerating. Your job is to set the direction, grow the business, and make Anthesis the firm that defines what's next in circular systems — not just advising, but designing pilots, deploying cutting-edge technologies, proving the economics and the investment case, and helping clients scale what works.

If you're the kind of person who looks at a broken material flow and sees untapped value — who gets excited by critical minerals recovery, robotic disassembly, and AI-powered sorting — and then actually builds the pilot, proves the ROI, and scales it — keep reading.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in sustainability consulting or industry, with deep domain expertise.
• Background in professional services/consulting (understanding utilization, margins, and practice growth).
• Established industry network bringing immediate credibility and access to doors.
• Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
• Fluent English required; an additional European language is preferred.
• Willingness to travel for client and leadership engagements.

Requirements

• Set the vision, own the strategy.
• Navigate the landscape.
• Know our client's world.
• Go beyond decks — build, test, scale.
• Build infrastructure, strengthen secondary markets.
• Grow the business.
• Connect across the organisation.
• Build and lead a high-performing team.
• Represent Anthesis at the highest level.

Benefits

• Build and lead a global practice in one of the fastest-moving areas of sustainability.
• Take ownership of a portfolio with real scale, world-class clients, and a mandate to grow it significantly.
• Work alongside a talented, mission-driven team that takes the work seriously and each other kindly.
• Join a consultancy that’s growing fast, investing in AI and innovation, and thinking long-term.
• Have the autonomy to set a vision, make bold bets, and see them through.
• Work within a highly motivated team in an innovative and rapidly growing global company.
• Opportunity to have a direct impact and be a key part of the growth and development of the business and the team.
• Work solely on projects that have an impact on the sustainability and climate change goals/challenges for clients.
• Opportunity to work with, collaborate with and learn from sustainability SMEs who are passionate about the work they do and the impact Anthesis can have.
• Exposure to a wide range of clients and projects on a global basis.
• Competitive salary in line with experience and skills.
• Competitive benefits including flexible working, 25 days holiday, two volunteering days off, and the day off for your Birthday!
• An opportunity to participate in the Anthesis Employee Participation Plan (EPP), an industry-pioneering employee incentive plan that allows all employees to be rewarded for the growth in the equity value of Anthesis.
• Cooperative, supportive and open working atmosphere.
• We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and encourage applications from all backgrounds.