Company Description

Mineral (mnrl) began life in Devon as a sustainable communications agency in 2020, created to help businesses with the green recovery and develop purposeful business practices as we emerged from global lockdowns, but has now evolved to sit at the nexus of commercial strategy, sustainability and corporate communications.

Combining nearly 40 years’ demonstrable experience across sectors including Financial Services, Real Estate and Hospitality, we have the practical know-how and skills to deliver results with clients across sectors in which we enjoy working and can add value – aiming to deliver positive impacts across sustainability, ESG, Change and Corporate Communications.

At mnrl we stand for resilience, regeneration and accountability – advocating and embedding best practices across our clients’ business activities to uplift strategy, deliver credible engagement and improve sustainable performance – ensuring our impact is felt by their stakeholders, not our planet.

If this feels like a business philosophy you can support, please keep reading…

About The Role

Role: Business Development Lead – Sustainability

Location: Remote, UK-based with client visits as required.

Rate: Competitive daily rate – this will be dependent on experience and in-line with market rates for the position.

The role requires a candidate with a strong sales background and commercial acumen, who is happy and willing to be hands-on to drive growth and profitability across the sustainability space, with the following requirements:

• Development, implementation and ownership of sales strategy.
• Pursuit and management of new business opportunities across sustainability, focused on corporate reporting, carbon accounting, climate action, biodiversity and natural capital management, sustainability disclosures, and sustainability, decarbonisation and ESG-related change and transformation.
• Relationship management across clients, stakeholders and industry networks.
• Sustainability trend and horizon scanning for future opportunity development.
• Sales forecasting and reporting to Directors.

About You

Our business ethos at mnrl is centred on education, engagement and communication. This goes for our people too – we’re firm believers anything can be learned, but a good attitude and a willingness to get stuck in is essential, therefore, we’re looking for someone who has the below experience and is interested in helping to build our business.

• A degree-level or equivalent qualification in a sustainability-related field and / or membership with a leading organisation, such as IEMA.
• 3 years or more consultancy experience or experience in managing client engagements.
• Passionate about improving business sustainability.
• Proven experience in a similar role within the sustainability sector.
• Excellent corporate relationship-building skills.
• Exceptional presenting and presentation skills.
• A strategic mindset with a focus on long-term growth and profitability.
• An entrepreneurial mindset focused on developing and delivering sustainable change.
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Application Process

We’re keen to hear from interested people and have phone calls in the coming weeks, so please feel free to apply via email to hello@mnrl.co.uk if this role is of interest.

Unfortunately, we’re not accepting applications from agencies.