Consultancy Business Manager (Maternity Cover)
Worcestershire Wildlife Consultancy
Are you a confident and motivated business professional who thrives on helping a team deliver high-quality work with clarity and purpose? We’re looking for someone who brings strong organisational skills, a collaborative leadership style and a genuine commitment to supporting people to do their best work. If you enjoy balancing strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, and you’re comfortable managing a busy and varied workload, we’d be delighted to hear from you.
You’ll be someone who can build positive relationships with colleagues, clients and partners and who brings a thoughtful, analytical approach to business performance. You’ll be confident leading a customer-focused service, comfortable interpreting and presenting business information and able to communicate clearly with a wide range of audiences.
About the role
As Business Manager, you’ll play a central role in leading the effective delivery and future growth of Worcestershire Wildlife Consultancy. This is an exciting opportunity to shape a thriving, mission-driven business by overseeing performance, supporting a skilled team and ensuring our work is delivered to the highest standards. You’ll balance strategic oversight with day-to-day management, from developing a strong pipeline of clients and contracts to ensuring projects run smoothly from initial enquiry through to completion. Collaboration will be at the heart of your work; you’ll liaise with colleagues across the Trust, build positive relationships with clients and partners, and help create a supportive, motivated and well-organised team.
This role offers the chance to make a meaningful contribution to nature’s recovery by strengthening the consultancy’s impact, sustainability and long-term success.
About us
Worcestershire Wildlife Consultancy is part of a network of Wildlife Trust Consultancies. As such we can draw on the expertise and experience of 20 other consultancy teams across the UK. We have been delivering high quality ecological services to clients in Worcestershire and beyond for over 30 years. This is an exciting opportunity for an ecologist looking to join a supportive team, where we offer the opportunity for personal and professional development. We are a wholly owned subsidiary of Worcestershire Wildlife Trust.
Worcestershire Wildlife Trust is Worcestershire’s leading nature conservation charity, committed to protecting wildlife and the natural environment. We are supported by over 21,000 individual members. Our 40 staff are supported by our 500 volunteers who are vital to the delivery of our work. We manage 75+ nature reserves across the county covering 12.5 square kilometres of land and provide land management advice across around a quarter of Worcestershire. Inspiring people to take action for nature is central to our work, from schools and youth groups to communities and local businesses.
Our strategy to 2030 focuses on three key goals:
- Nature in recovery: 30% of land for nature by 2030
- Action for nature: one in four people taking action for nature by 2030
- Sustaining our future: more diversity, more funding and carbon zero by 2030
We are one of 46 independent Wildlife Trusts across the UK.
We’re wild about inclusion. To us, this means inspiring, empowering and engaging people from all backgrounds, cultures, identities and abilities to change the natural world for the better. It also means cultivating inclusive workspaces that are free from discrimination, where differences are valued and everyone can be themselves and flourish, just like nature. As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we actively welcome applications from disabled candidates. Applicants who meet the minimum requirements required and choose to apply under the scheme will be offered an interview.
What we offer
We offer a supportive, friendly and purpose-driven working environment where your contribution genuinely makes a difference for wildlife and local communities. As part of Worcestershire Wildlife Consultancy and Trust, you’ll benefit from:
- A generous annual leave allowance of 6.6 weeks including bank holidays
- A holiday purchase scheme
- A contributory pension scheme with 4% employee/8% employer contributions
- Flexible and hybrid working options, where possible
- Enhanced Parental Leave policies
- Group Life Assurance at 3x annual salary
About Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
Worcestershire Wildlife Trust is the county’s leading local charity working towards a county rich in wildlife. With the support of our volunteers and members we manage almost 3,000 acres of land for wildlife and people across Worcestershire. We also work with other organisations and landowners to protect and connect wildlife sites across the county. We also work with and inspire local communities and young people to care for wildlife where they live.
Worcestershire Wildlife Trust is the county’s leading local charity working towards a county rich in wildlife. With the support of our volunteers and members we manage almost 3,000 acres of land for wildlife and people across Worcestershire. We also work with other organisations and landowners to protect and connect wildlife sites across the county. We also work with and inspire local communities and young people to care for wildlife where they live.
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