Manager, Climate Risk, Sustainability Advisory

Arcadis • Chicago, IL

6h • Hybrid

About The Position

Arcadis is seeking a Manager, Climate Risk to join our U.S.-based Sustainability Advisory business. In this role, you will help shape the future of sustainability by developing Arcadis’s global climate risk offering, leading complex client engagements, and scaling best-in-class methodologies across regions and sectors. As a trusted advisor, you’ll collaborate with diverse teams and industry leaders to solve some of the world’s most urgent challenges, including climate change and the transition to net zero. You’ll have the autonomy to take ownership of projects and drive results from day one, all while helping to grow Arcadis’s decarbonization services across North America. We offer a supportive culture that values integrity, professional growth, and innovation. If you are passionate about making a measurable difference and thrive in a fast-paced, client-focused environment, we want to hear from you.
At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to drive transformational change for clients and communities by addressing some of the world’s most critical climate and resilience challenges. As a leading global consultancy, we combine deep technical expertise with innovative digital solutions to help organizations understand, quantify, and manage climate-related physical and transition risks, translate climate scenarios into financial outcomes, and embed climate into enterprise risk management and strategic decision-making.
In this role, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across Sustainability Advisory, Climate Adaptation, Resilience, Asset Management, Engineering, and Digital Intelligence. You will help bridge science, engineering, finance, and strategy, ensuring that climate risk assessments are technically robust, financially defensible, and decision-useful for executive and board-level stakeholders.
This hybrid role is located in Washington DC, New York City, or Chicago. The ideal candidate for this role will be a highly organized self-starter with strong project management and communication skills, proven experience delivering climate risk strategy programs to global portfolios, and ability to collaborate across internal functions, cultures, and geographies.
Arcadis is focused on solving the most complex sustainability challenges. As such, you will help grow the Sustainability Advisory services in North America, reporting to our US Lead for Sustainability Advisory and our Global Technical Director for Climate Risk. You will lead and oversee complex climate risk assessment and reporting engagements for global clients across infrastructure, real estate, financial services, energy, transportation, consumer goods, and industrial sectors.
This role combines:
Technical leadership (methodologies, models, scenarios, financial translation),
Client leadership (executive engagement, finance stakeholder buy-in),
Practice building (offer development, innovation, and growth).
You will work horizontally across Arcadis’ Global Business Areas (Mobility, Places, Resilience, Intelligence), driving the integration of climate risk analytics with engineering, adaptation design, asset resilience, and digital solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field of study
• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in sustainability consulting with a focus in climate risk assessment and reporting.
• Demonstrated expertise in climate physical risk assessments, transition risk assessments, scenario analysis and financial impact modeling
• Strong consulting, client relationship and project management skills and the ability to lead tasks and project teams to successful delivery, outstanding communication and people management skills, especially the ability to collate and synthesize data into simple, concise language; and collaboration across geographies.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree and/or additional certifications in relevant sustainability disciplines
• Deep familiarity with IEA, NGFS, IPCC scenarios; UK TPT, ISSB, CSRD, SEC, SB 261/253
• Experience working with: depth-damage functions; CVaR / AAL / stress testing; insurance and risk transfer frameworks
• Experience developing global renewable energy procurement strategies to contribute to ambitious climate targets

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of climate risk projects across multiple sectors such as real estate, retail, manufacturing, infrastructure, technology, and transportation.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, ensuring that all deliverables are accurate, timely, and client-ready.
• Develop and implement climate risk strategies, managing project teams, and providing quality assurance for technical analyses.
• Play a key role in mentoring junior staff, identifying opportunities to expand client relationships, and supporting the development of Arcadis’s broader sustainability offering.
• Oversee both physical and transition risk assessments.
• Conduct climate risk and opportunity assessments, quantitative scenario analyses, climate transition planning, and modeling the financial impacts of climate risk.
• Ensure the application of key scenarios from organizations such as the IEA, NGFS, and IPCC, and will be instrumental in integrating climate risk considerations into enterprise risk management (ERM) frameworks.
• Lead climate physical risk methodologies, such as hazard modeling for a range of climate perils (including flood, heat, drought, wildfire, wind, and sea level rise), and using depth–damage functions and vulnerability curves to translate hazard exposure into assessments of asset damage, business interruption, impacts on revenue and costs, asset valuation, and stranded asset risks.
• Develop key financial impact metrics (such as AAL, CVaR, stress testing, and tail risk), ensuring that all climate risk outputs are scientifically credible, financially defensible, and decision-useful for CFOs, CROs, and boards.
• Lead transition risk assessments and climate transition planning, applying IEA, NGFS, and sector-specific pathways, and analyzing policy and regulatory risks, market and demand shifts, technology disruption, and carbon pricing exposures.
• Develop transition plans aligned with frameworks such as the UK Transition Plan Taskforce, ISSB/IFRS S2, CSRD, EU Taxonomy, and Science-Based Targets initiatives, supporting clients in translating these risks into strategic implications, capital allocation decisions, and portfolio resilience strategies.
• Advise on the role of insurance in climate resilience—addressing insurability constraints, premium escalation, deductibles, coverage gaps, and balancing risk transfer with risk reduction strategies—while ensuring that climate risk findings are aligned with insurance and risk financing strategies.
• Translate climate risk results into actionable adaptation pathways.
• Inform asset-level resilience investments, capital planning, and prioritization, as well as the selection of nature-based and engineered solutions.
• Lead climate risk reporting engagements, ensuring alignment with both voluntary and mandatory frameworks, including ISSB/IFRS S1 and S2, CSRD/ESRS, EU Taxonomy, SEC climate disclosure rules, the California Climate Accountability Package, and TCFD.
• Lead complex climate risk assessment and reporting projects.
• Deliver projects on broader sustainability topics. Topics may include GHG accounting, ESG strategy, sustainability reporting, biodiversity, and others to meet diverse client needs.
• Owning client relationships. Act as a trusted advisor, anticipate needs, and consistently deliver high-quality, client-ready work.
• Driving results independently. Take a challenge, brainstorm solutions, and deliver proposals, analyses, client communications, and deliverables with minimal supervision. Track schedules, deliverables, budgets, and staffing on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Coaching and elevating junior team members. Guide project teams, give actionable feedback, and help colleagues grow.
• Ensuring quality and accountability. Review analyses, ensure deliverables meet the highest standards, and keep projects on time and on budget.
• Championing innovation. Identify new ways to create value for clients and help build out our decarbonization service offering.
• Communicating with clarity. Present complex topics in simple, compelling terms to executives and stakeholders, including developing executive-level presentations for c-suite level audiences.
• Staying current with the latest frameworks and standards. Maintain cutting-edge knowledge of climate science, risk modeling and disclosure standards
• Collaborating across teams and geographies. Navigate a matrix organization and work with colleagues worldwide.

Benefits

• Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.
• We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level