Join LEYTON as a Senior European Funding Consultant – Brussels
Are you driven by innovation, sustainability, and European funding? Do you enjoy working on large-scale, international projects that make a real impact? LEYTON is one of Europe’s largest consulting firms specializing in innovation and energy funding. We support innovative companies across Europe and North America in boosting their performance through European and national grants, as well as R&D tax incentives.
With 3.000+ employees across 17 countries, Leyton combines strong local presence with international expertise to help clients turn complex, high-impact projects into funded.
To support our continued growth, our European Grants Team is looking for a Senior European Funding Consultant to strengthen our Brussels office.
A strong client focus, partnering with innovative, industrial and sustainability-driven organizations.
Multidisciplinary teams, bringing together technical, financial and policy expertise to secure funding and tax savings.
As a Senior European Funding Consultant, you will coordinate the submission process of complex, large scale, multi-stakeholder proposals to major European funding programs across a wide range of public and industrial sectors. Our European Grants Team works closely with the national experts in the Leyton countries.
In direct relation with the client’s executive-level or project leads, you are responsible for:
Detection of funding opportunities : you analyse projects and identify most appropriate co-funding opportunities for your clients at national and European level, accurately assessing the feasibility of projects, and liaising with the national teams to assess national opportunities as well.
Coordination: you are able to coordinate international consortia or across multiple local divisions of a multinational company.
you contribute to the shaping of new communication tools and their content.
Troubleshooting : you are quick to signal potential issues and find pragmatic solutions that work smoothly for all parties involved.
Business development : actively supporting the lead generation and business development and participating in the drafting of commercial proposals.
Building partnerships : you help our clients to find partners all over Europe, form consortia and gather political support for their projects.
Proposal management : you quickly understand the strengths and weaknesses of a project/business in order to translate it into a convincing grant application, you support your colleagues during the drafting phases, reviewing and co-drafting proposals.
Training and coaching : sharing your expertise, you help colleagues across Europe develop their knowledge and skills regarding (EU) Grants.
Innovation Fund, Connecting Europe Facility, European Defence Fund, Horizon Europe, LIFE, etc. – Comfortable interacting with senior executives in technical environments
Good at solving problems in a creative and constructive way.
Rigorous and methodical with a strong capacity for analysis and synthesis.
Fluent in English. (additional European languages are a plus).
A human-sized company within a fast-growing international group, allowing direct contact with management level