Senior Sustainability Consultant

Position Description: 

The Senior Sustainability Consultant leads and manages a portfolio of client engagements focused on corporate and product impact inventory development, target setting and tracking, and sustainability strategy development and implementation. This role serves as a key client contact, translates sustainability challenges into actionable analytical work, and leverages Bureau Veritas and Aligned Incentives tools, including AITrack, to deliver strategic insights and practical solutions.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and project manage a portfolio of customer engagements, including corporate and product impact inventories, target setting, tracking, and sustainability strategy implementation.
• Serve as the primary client contact for assigned engagements, maintaining regular communication and visiting primary customers as appropriate.
• Understand client sustainability challenges and translate business needs into clear analytical plans, deliverables, and recommendations.
• Coordinate the proper flow of information to clients regarding products, services, timelines, deliverables, and project status.
• Perform and oversee analytical tasks, including data collection, data processing, corporate inventory development, product footprinting, strategy analysis, report generation, documentation, and quality assurance/control.
• Provide strategic advisory services that help clients set, track, and achieve sustainability-related targets.
• Support growth within the existing client portfolio by identifying additional service opportunities and delivering high-quality client engagement.
• Partner with Sales on new customer acquisition by providing technical support in sales meetings, scoping work, drafting proposals, and developing pricing inputs.
• Develop client-facing deliverables such as technical documentation, analytical insight summaries, methodology materials, reports, and slide decks.
• Support clients preparing for third-party assurance of corporate inventories and related sustainability disclosures.
• Use Bureau Veritas and Aligned Incentives analytical tools and platforms to derive insights and support client decision-making.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Service Manager.

What You’ll Bring:

• Expert knowledge of major sustainability market drivers and reporting frameworks, including the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP), Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), and International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).
• Expertise in Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 corporate greenhouse gas accounting.
• Strong sustainability consulting skills, including client relationship management, project management, strategic advisory, and problem solving.
• Ability to develop, analyze, and communicate corporate inventories, product footprints, target-setting pathways, and financially driven sustainability strategies.
• Experience modeling impact mitigation interventions and developing marginal abatement cost curves.
• Strong data collection, survey, assessment, analysis, reporting, and quality assurance skills.
• Advanced business writing and presentation skills, including technical documents, client-facing slide decks, methodology documentation, and instructional materials.
• Ability to support sales activities through technical input, proposal writing, scoping, price quotations, and customer solutioning.
• Experience in technology, apparel/textiles, agriculture, or other supply-chain intensive sectors preferred.
• Experience with third-party assurance support for corporate inventories preferred.
• Familiarity with life cycle assessment, life cycle inventory database development, renewable energy markets, and opportunity identification preferred.
• Programming or analytical skills in R, Python, SQL, Power BI, or similar tools preferred.

Competency:

• Client Focus: Builds trusted relationships, understands client needs, and delivers practical sustainability solutions.
• Strategic Thinking: Connects sustainability data, business objectives, regulatory trends, and market drivers to actionable strategies.
• Project Leadership: Plans, organizes, and drives multiple client engagements to timely and high-quality completion.
• Analytical Thinking: Interprets complex datasets and sustainability methods to produce accurate insights and recommendations.
• Communication: Explains technical sustainability concepts clearly through meetings, reports, presentations, and client materials.
• Business Development Mindset: Identifies growth opportunities, supports proposal development, and partners effectively with Sales.
• Problem Solving: Addresses ambiguous client, data, methodology, or implementation issues with sound judgment.
• Collaboration: Works effectively with sustainability, financial, IT, data science, software, sales, and client teams.
• Quality Orientation: Ensures deliverables are accurate, well-documented, and aligned with applicable standards and client expectations.
• Adaptability and Learning Agility: Quickly learns new sectors, sustainability topics, tools, and client environments.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Takes initiative, identifies improvements, and contributes to growth in a fast-paced environment.
• Integrity and Accountability: Documents assumptions, manages commitments, and uses client data responsibly.