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About the Role

Holtara is seeking a senior leader to build and lead its UK advisory presence. This client-facing role requires commercial drive, advisory credibility, team leadership, and deep sustainability knowledge to translate sustainability into practical business value.

Responsibilities

• Own and expand senior relationships with UK private markets investors, GPs, LPs, financial institutions, portfolio companies and corporates.
• Identify and convert advisory opportunities across ESG due diligence, climate transition, sustainability value creation, reporting, regulatory readiness, sustainable finance and impact.
• Act as senior sponsor for priority accounts, shape commercial propositions, and convert Apex referral channels into mandates.
• Represent Holtara at client meetings, roundtables and industry forums, building visibility in the UK sustainability and private markets ecosystem.
• Lead, coach and develop consultants and senior advisors, providing day-to-day guidance and feedback on client work.
• Build a high-performance, collaborative and inclusive culture, setting clear standards for advisory quality and commercial contribution.
• Act as engagement director or senior advisor on complex, strategic assignments, ensuring high-quality, on-time, commercially relevant delivery.
• Translate technical sustainability findings into board-level and investment-relevant insight, using Holtara methodologies, data and platform capabilities.
• Oversee work across ESG due diligence, climate and carbon, value creation, strategy, reporting, regulatory readiness, responsible supply chains, biodiversity, human rights and impact.
• Translate bespoke advisory work into repeatable, platform-enabled propositions, playbooks and diagnostics across the investment lifecycle.
• Work with Holtara.io and technology colleagues to connect advisory expertise to platform features, data workflows and AI-enabled delivery.
• Contribute to thought leadership and Holtara’s market positioning.

Requirements

• 8+ years in sustainability advisory, ESG, strategy consulting, private markets, responsible investment or a related field.
• Experience advising clients on sustainability related regulatory developments and requirements is highly desirable.
• Strong record with senior clients — investment teams, operating partners, sustainability leaders, CFOs, CEOs, boards and financial institutions.
• Ability to turn complex sustainability topics into commercial, investment-relevant narratives.
• Demonstrated growth of relationships, accounts and revenue, working through warm networks and referral channels.
• Working command of several of: ESG due diligence; sustainability strategy; climate and decarbonisation; ESG reporting and portfolio monitoring; SFDR, CSRD and EU Taxonomy; responsible supply chains, human rights and biodiversity; sustainable finance and impact.
• Proven ability to lead and develop teams in a global organisation, across cultures, time zones and levels of seniority.
• Comfortable with data and platform-enabled advisory, and genuinely interested in AI-enabled delivery and scalable propositions.
• Strategic, commercial and practical, with strong executive presence.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and change.
• Motivated by building something better, not only maintaining an existing practice.
• Professional fluency in English required.

Skills

• Sustainability advisory
• ESG
• Strategy consulting
• Private markets
• Responsible investment
• Client relationship management
• Team leadership
• Commercial acumen
• ESG due diligence
• Climate transition
• Sustainability value creation
• Reporting
• Regulatory readiness
• Sustainable finance
• Impact assessment
• Data analysis
• Platform-enabled advisory
• AI-enabled delivery

Location

• London, United Kingdom

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior leader
• 8+ years experience

Education Level

• Advanced degree in business, finance, economics, environmental science, engineering, sustainability or a related discipline preferred.

About the Company

• The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world’s largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.
• Holtara is leading the way in building effective ESG & sustainability programs, combining expert advisory with award-winning platforms.
• For over 15 years, Holtara has empowered investors, managers, and companies to leave a legacy they can genuinely be proud of.
• As part of the global Apex Group, Holtara’s 130-strong team spans Amsterdam, London, the US, Spain, and India.
• Holtara offers a unique combination of advisory and technology services across the investment lifecycle, helping businesses make a real impact today for a more sustainable tomorrow.