Senior Sustainability Consultant
Quantis, Italy
Job Description
WHY YOU’LL LOVE QUANTIS
Quantis is a leading sustainability consultancy pioneering approaches to solve critical environmental challenges. For nearly two decades, our dynamic and visionary team has partnered with organizations across the globe to transform their industries and pave the way for a planetary economy that aligns business with nature. We strive to be agents of change, helping companies transform from business as usual to business at its best.
We believe that sustainable transformation is possible and within our power. We’re contributing to this transformation by combining the latest science with strategic business insights. Our advice enables global leaders in our focus sectors to understand how to reduce their environmental impacts, implement the changes and operate within planetary boundaries.
Motivated by this common purpose, our 250+ talented professionals cultivate a unique, collaborative culture that we call the Quantis Spirit. We are innovative. We are impact oriented. We are science-based. We are Quantis.
Join us!
THE ROLE
We’re hiring a Senior Sustainability Consultant with the mission to manage our Italian metric-based team focused on multiple sectors such as Cosmetics amp; Personal Care, Pharma and Chemicals.
You will be responsible for:
- Managing the Italian metric-based team focused on sectors like Camp;PC, Pharma and Chemicals, ICT, Metals, Finance.
- Guiding this team to deliver metric-based projects and work quickly, independently, and on schedule, while maintaining high quality and a highly positive team energy and spirit
- Ensuring the quality in the delivery projects or in proposals through technical amp; quality control but also in scoping work to deliver
- Contributing to delivering the most ambitious projects strongly interacting with clients and partners
- Serving as the reference point for the Quantis team and improving Quantis’ excellence delivering client transformation in the sector
- Working closely with the Sector Lead to capture client needs in the market and to plan Quantis approach to address them
- Contributing to co-defining with your peers the strategy, sales objectives and metric-based priorities for the sector in alignment with the specificities of the local market
- Ensure knowledge sharing across client teams and branches leveraging Quantis Knowledge Management System
DOES THIS DESCRIBE YOU AND YOUR NEXT ROLE?
- You are motivated to put your consulting and analysis (metric-based) skills to work towards our mission of building a sustainable future
- You have demonstrated high levels of determination in managing complex analytical challenges and problem-solving skills
- You have 7+ years’ sustainability experience (ideally in Cosmetics amp; Personal Care, Pharma and/or Chemicals) either in-house or as a consultant performing, managing, interpreting and communicating on results and sustainability topics
- You have demonstrated experience in managing and guiding team with a servant leadership style
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Environmental engineering or similar discipline; a PhD degree involving significant conceptual and practical use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is appreciated
- Fluent in Italian and English
- Strong knowledge of Product LCA and Corporate Footprint
- Understanding of ESG-related topics, sustainability metrics and frameworks (e.g.: GHG Protocol, ISO 14040/44/64/67, PEF, Science-Based Targets) and eco-designing principles
- Experience with one of the LCA software tools (SimaPro a strong asset) and advanced data analysis / MS Excel skills
- Strong general quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
- Scientific programing: knowledge of Python, Matlab, ArcGIS and willingness to keep developing skills in this area is a nice to have
- Ability to collect, process, manage and interpret data in a form understandable to audience with various levels of knowledge on sustainability
- You are a team player that works quickly, independently and on schedule
- You enjoy working with internal team members, collaborators. Leadership, coaching and mentoring skills will be a plus. You’re able to guide a project team to work quickly, independently, and on schedule, while maintaining high quality and a highly positive team energy and spirit.
- You are a well-organized person who can prioritize tasks well, especially when under time pressure
- You have the ability and affinity to work on multiple projects simultaneously
- You can step up in front of an audience and present clearly even complex topics
- Knowledge of non-environmental sustainability topics (social and governance) would be a plus.
AS SENIOR SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT