Sustainability Expert

Summary

Join Quantis as a Climate Risk Sustainability Expert and contribute to transformational projects enabling clients to achieve their sustainability goals. You will work with the Strategy & Transformation team, developing and executing cutting-edge solutions. This role involves client interaction, strategic thinking, and technical expertise in climate risk assessment and mitigation. You will leverage your consulting experience and sustainability knowledge to guide companies in designing science-based climate strategies. The position offers a remote work option with potential travel and collaboration with global teams. Quantis fosters a collaborative culture and provides a competitive salary.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of experience with consulting engagements focused on climate strategy, sustainability, ESG, and business risk & management
• For 3+ years, you have been sharpening your strategy skills and technical expertise in the field of climate risk and opportunities
• You are familiar with scenario analysis and helping organizations explore beyond typical planning horizons and increase business capacity for climate change adaptation
• You have demonstrated experience in assessing business environmental dependencies, identifying potential business/financial impacts, and identifying underlying hazards
• You are comfortable in a client facing role and interfacing with client senior leadership
• You have a science- and metrics-based orientation, and a deep intellectual and business curiosity, combined with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate complex information in clear, understandable ways to internal and external audiences, including top management
• You have experience in assessing and reporting climate change or environmental-related risks and opportunities, including an understanding of climate change science, policy frameworks, and the associated financial and non-financial impacts of an organization
• You have experience defining and implementing sustainability strategies across the consumer packaged goods industry, including supply chain, operations, and retail
• You have experience in qualitative and quantitative risk analysis and are capable of communicating complex risk concepts and findings to clients, colleagues, and other stakeholders in a clear, concise, and compelling manner
• You have demonstrated experience assessing corporate climate risks (physical and transitional) and opportunities, identifying business/financial impacts of climate change, and have deep knowledge of climate-related risk disclosure frameworks
• You have an understanding of ESG integration, including corporate governance, corporate sustainability reporting, and the broader ecosystem of ESG integration into investment and lending decisions (investment ratings and indices) with the intrinsic challenges companies face in executing on a net-zero strategy
• You have experience navigating common sustainability frameworks such as GHG Protocol, TCFD, CDP, SBTi, TNFD, CSRD, EU Taxonomy
• You are comfortable with high-level financial analysis ROI, P&L, and discounted cash flow modeling

Responsibilities

• Develop productive relationships with clients that enable transparent and authentic communication with the client and position Quantis as a trusted partner in achieving transformational sustainability goals
• Develop and present thoughts and ideas with clarity and in a way the client is able to understand and follow along with project highlights and needs
• Develop and produce clear and meaningful presentations that guide clients through the work being accomplished and connecting it with client challenges, needs, and goals
• Supporting the business development initiatives and pricing models for the Quantis transformational offerings
• Confidently and effectively advocate for project / scope / team in face of client demands
• Consulting with clients and colleagues across multiple industries (in particular Food & Beverage, Agriculture, Fashion & Cosmetics, Sporting Goods and Chemical sectors), to assist them in understanding and implementing climate risk strategies
• Serving as a subject matter expert to support the United States branch in climate risk assessment, mitigation strategies, scenario analysis, and primary risk reporting frameworks (TCFD, CDP, CSRD…)
• Using robust methodologies to assess clients’ climate-related risk and opportunity, develop high-quality deliverables, and conduct client meetings
• Work under the guidance of the US Strategy & Transformation Lead, and the Global Community of Climate Expertise and Strategic Insights to help shape and grow the offering in environmental risk
• Training: as subject matter expert, contribute to the development of materials to train the global delivery teams and the branch’s consultants on climate risk and delivery of our environmental risk advisory service; participate in relevant internal discussions and guiding project teams
• Offerings improvement: together with the strategy team and key account managers, identify needs and implement actions to revise or expand on existing practices, including the integration of relevant new innovations
• Provide detailed analysis on client challenges, propose solutions, and execute on those solutions to help the client achieve their sustainability goals and overcome challenges
• Design custom frameworks and toolboxes that fit within a client’s organization for implementing transformation potential
• Diagnosing the limitations of client’s current state governance model for achieving sustainability targets and goals, identifying a desired future state design, and delivering a roadmap to achieve future state integrated governance model
• Conduct high-level financial analyses on the capital and operational impacts of deploying sustainability projects and transformational opportunities
• Support sector and client delivery teams in creating the executive narrative, drive client stakeholder consensus building, engage the broader organization, and provide data-driven decision making to our clients
• Contribute internally to the development of innovative solutions, methodologies and frameworks that enable transformational sustainability goals to be achieved
• Take ownership of internal projects to support the growth of the Strategy & Transformation team
• Operate as an effective project team leader
• Liaison and partner with sustainability experts across all branches to create a sense of community, collaborate on deliverables, and exchange learnings to support the growth of the global transformation community

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with the following topics would be a plus: GHG accounting, SBTi and Net Zero, offsetting/carbon credits

Benefits

• Location : Any location in the US. You'll have the possibility to work collaboratively in the Boston office as needed as well as to regularly meet your colleagues on team retreats
• Frequent collaboration with other Quantis branches (France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany) via web-conferences
• Ability to travel (eventually), approximately 10%
• The compensation target for this role ranges from $118,000/year-$130,000/year