[Hiring] Senior Sustainability Consultant @Bureau Veritas

Role 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.

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• Master's degree in a sustainability-related field with a heavy focus on environmental impact accounting, environmental engineering, strategy development, or a related discipline preferred.
• Bachelor's degree may be considered with demonstrated subject matter expertise and at least seven (7) years of proven experience developing and leading a portfolio of sustainability consulting engagements.
• Demonstrated experience leading sustainability consulting engagements with end-to-end responsibility for project management, client relations, problem solving, proposal writing, price quotations, and revenue growth with existing customers.
• Demonstrated experience with sustainability frameworks and market drivers such as GHGP, SBTi, ISSB, and Scope 1, 2, and 3 accounting.
• Demonstrated experience collecting, analyzing, and reporting assessment and survey data.
• Experience developing client-facing deliverables, including technical documentation, methodology materials, analytical summaries, and presentation decks.
• Experience supporting corporate inventory assurance, financially driven sustainability strategies, and supply-chain sustainability engagements preferred.

Benefits

• Base Pay is adjusted based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.
• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.
• Company-matched Retirement plan.
• Generous Paid Time Off and Company Holidays.
• Life Insurance and AD&D coverage.
• Short-Term Disability (STD) and Long-Term Disability (LTD).
• Tuition Assistance, along with optional life and pet insurance.
• Access to Corporate Discounts.