Sustainability Expert - Climate Risk

THE ROLE

As a Climate Risk Sustainability Expert, you will be a key contributor to transformational projects and analysis that enable client organizations to achieve their sustainability goals. This role develops and executes cutting-edge solutions in organizational change, supply chain activation, product portfolio management, stakeholder engagement. In this role, you will be a catalyst for success, enabling organizations to thrive at the intersection of sustainability and business performance.

Does this describe you?:

• Consulting Experience:
• 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.
• Sustainability Expertise:
• 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.
• Strategy & Transformation Team:
• You’re an entrepreneurial and motivated sustainability professional and a strategic thinker looking for a big opportunity to work with sustainability leaders and experts.
• You’re a team player that works quickly, independently and on schedule. You know how to structure your own work and build relationships with teammates and clients.
• You get excited about guiding companies to understand and design transformative and science-based climate strategies.
• You’re energized by a fast-paced and diverse role: effectively delivering Quantis’ climate risk offering in the United States, ensuring the timely delivery of the related projects, supporting the development of the offering at the group level and supporting the training of the Climate Strategy team to acquire new skills and providing expertise to the various branches

Core Responsibilities:

• Client Relationships
• 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.
• Technical Knowledge