Sustainability Consultant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Pennsylvania.

📋 Description

• Develop and sustain year-round client workplans that encompass reporting, assessments, strategic milestones, review cycles, and regular check-ins.

• Outline project phases, dependencies, client inputs, and decision-making points.

• Ensure alignment between clients and internal teams regarding timelines, priorities, handoffs, action items, and commitments.

• Proactively identify scheduling and scope challenges and suggest options to maintain delivery on schedule.

• Oversee engagements according to the agreed-upon scope, budget, schedule, and delivery requirements.

• Conduct hands-on technical tasks, such as drafting sustainability reports, executing EcoVadis submissions, creating GHG inventories, performing materiality assessments, and composing strategy recommendations.

• Coordinate with subject matter experts regarding reporting content, strategic outputs, EcoVadis evidence requests, and assessment or submission tasks.

• Evaluate work products for completeness and readiness for clients, and direct technical inquiries to the relevant experts.

• Monitor risks, decisions, revisions, and modifications to scope or timelines.

• Act as the primary day-to-day contact for clients by leading meetings, providing status updates, and tracking action items.

• Assist clients in transforming reporting requirements, assessment results, and sustainability priorities into actionable next steps.

• Convert sustainability findings into business language and present them in a way that enables executives to take action.

• Identify client needs across reporting, EcoVadis, and strategy, bringing in the appropriate service leads.

• Carry client context and commitments throughout engagements and project phases.

• Contribute to discovery conversations, scoping, proposals, and the transition from sales to delivery.

• Share client context, timing, and service requirements with sales and consulting teams.

• Refine project plans, client trackers, templates, and coordination processes.

• Enhance coordination, documentation, and collaboration workflows, including the use of AI tools while maintaining accuracy and confidentiality.

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and perform related responsibilities as necessary.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated capability to lead multiple client-facing consulting projects concurrently, from formulating the delivery plan to ensuring smooth progress of complex workstreams.

• Practical knowledge of sustainability reporting, sustainability strategy, EcoVadis, and other relevant assessments.

• Strong business acumen, including familiarity with basic financial concepts, business cases, and the relationship between sustainability and commercial/operational priorities.

• Comprehensive understanding of project fundamentals: timelines, dependencies, risks, scope, budget, and action items.

• Ability to cultivate trusted client relationships and translate complex technical discussions into clear decisions and actionable next steps.

• Comfort in supporting proposals and account coordination efforts.

• Proficiency in project management and client-tracking tools, or a swift ability to learn new ones.

• Sound judgment regarding tools, information quality, and client confidentiality.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational abilities, and meticulous attention to detail.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office or similar software applications.

• A minimum of three years of professional experience in client-facing project management, sustainability consulting, reporting, assessments, strategy, or related fields.

• Educational background in sustainability, business, consulting, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• Preferred: direct experience with EcoVadis and CDP engagements, sustainability reporting cycles, cross-functional client programs, or proposal support.

• Preferred: consulting experience, whether at a consulting firm or in an internal advisory capacity serving multiple teams or business units.

• Preferred: experience in developing, implementing, or maintaining sustainability management systems, such as an ISO 14001 environmental management system.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and wellness benefits, with health insurance fully covered by the employer for employees.

• 401(k) plan with immediate full vesting and a company match: 100% of the first 3% contributed and 50% of the next 2%.

• Four weeks of paid time off (PTO).

• One week of sick leave.

• Three floating holidays.

• Paid winter break.

• Extensive opportunities for professional development.

• Paid time off for volunteer work.

• Training and shared learning resources to help you effectively utilize AI and other emerging tools.

• Flexible collaboration across time zones, with core collaboration hours when possible.