Environmental Science Strategist

6 days ago


Teddington, Greater London, United Kingdom National Physical Laboratory Full time
About the Role

The National Physical Laboratory is seeking a highly skilled Environmental Science Strategist to join our team. As a key member of our Environment team, you will play a crucial role in identifying and developing our Environment strategy, engaging stakeholders, and supporting the delivery of impactful science.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the delivery of strategic research projects that provide new insights to strategy, business development, or science research, including scoping, desktop research, and synthesizing conclusions and recommendations.
  • Conduct strategic analytical desk research to pull together policy, market, high-level technical, and scientific inputs, identifying new insights and challenges relevant to NPL measurement science.
  • Develop relationships and raise the profile of NPL in the Environment arena through content-driven engagement with external stakeholders, liaising with marketing to provide knowledge and content for external websites, brochures, and conferences.
  • Support Strategic Business Development managers for knowledge and analytical content needs, particularly in new funding streams and opportunities to NPL, and support opportunity realization where possible.
  • Support the Head of Challenge in the development and refinement of the challenge strategy.
  • Taking reasonable duty of care for Health & Safety.
Key Skills and Knowledge Required
  • Delivery-focused, with the ability to efficiently manage multiple complex projects while focusing on activities that deliver tangible value.
  • Strategic thinking, with the ability to see the big picture and demonstrate foresight.
  • Analytical skills and critical thinking, with the ability to learn, identify, and analyze large amounts of new information, synthesize, distill, structure, find trends, and insights, sometimes from incomplete data.
  • Commercial/business knowledge and mindset.
  • Leadership skills and team player, with the ability to lead a project, work with stakeholders with different backgrounds and levels of experience.
  • Strong communication skills, verbal and written, with experience in producing reports, papers, and other project-related written delivery work.
  • A degree in science is strongly preferred, and financial skills are also preferred.
About Us

The National Physical Laboratory is a world-leading centre of excellence that provides cutting-edge measurement science, engineering, and technology to underpin prosperity and quality of life in the UK. We are committed to diversity and equality of opportunity, and welcome applications from candidates irrespective of their background, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, or age, providing they meet the required criteria.



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