Graduate Consultant (ESG) 2025 Programme

We are looking for recent graduates to join our Corporate Sustainability team in our London, Manchester & Bristol offices.

This is a development role for people at the beginning of their career in sustainability consulting. We do innovative and worthwhile work, helping companies become more sustainable. Our work covers a huge range of interrelated topics: from governance to human rights, to supply chain sustainability, to climate change. We work with client teams in marketing, compliance, procurement and communications as well as their sustainability functions, usually at Executive level. We’ve established a reputation for being great at what we do. Everything we do is bespoke, and that is reflected in how we think and work. Our employees are the most important thing; we invest in them, and they tend to stay with us for a long time. Those who do leave move on to do great things in a variety of industries.

As a graduate you will automatically be enrolled on our structured Graduate Programme which will support both your technical and business development giving you a great foundation for a rewarding and dynamic career. You will also have access to our mentoring programme and a range of employee networks.

About us

SLR are global leaders in environmental and advisory solutions helping our clients achieve their sustainability goals. We are a consultancy with over 3,000 employees working in 125 countries around the world, including over 1,000 staff across Europe. Our ‘one team’ culture is at the 

heart of our business; providing a collaborative and supportive environment for professional development.  

Along with competitive salaries, our staff enjoy a comprehensive benefits package with a company pension plus excellent healthcare offering, travel and life insurance, critical illness cover and a structured career framework with regular reviews offering outstanding opportunities for progression. Alongside 25 days' annual leave, we offer flexible, agile and hybrid working which enables staff to tailor hours worked around core hours, and our family friendly policies help balance the needs of professional and family life. 

About you

You will have recently graduated or be in your final year at university we are open to a range of degrees including business, economics, science and engineering more importantly we want graduates who:

• Are curious and unafraid of challenging conventional wisdom, resilient and persistent, looking to learn and be challenged
• Demonstrate attention to detail, can assimilate and process information rapidly, and comfortable working at pace
• Possess an entrepreneurial mindset, numerate and analytical, able to prioritise and manage own workload
• Are confident and engaging, able to communicate well when presenting, writing and speaking
• Have an excellent command of IT and ability to use technical skills for maximum impact for clients