Senior Sustainability Consultant

Bureau Veritas•Remo, VA

11d•Remote

About The Position

Bureau Veritas offers dynamic, exciting employment opportunities with an attractive salary/benefit package and an opportunity to play a vital role with a global organization. If you would enjoy working in a dynamic environment and are looking for an opportunity to become part of a stellar team of professionals, we invite you to apply online today. Bureau Veritas is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and as such we recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, sexual orientation, genetics, status as a protected veteran, or any other non-job-related characteristics. This position is responsible to ensure equal opportunity in employment in that all persons are treated equally and on the basis of merit, in decisions regarding selection, placement, promotions, training, work assignments, transfers and other personnel actions. City: Remote State: USA

Requirements

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.
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.

Nice To Haves

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.
Experience supporting corporate inventory assurance, financially driven sustainability strategies, and supply-chain sustainability engagements preferred.

Responsibilities

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.