Senior Sustainability Consultant Saas

We are expanding!

Aligned Incentives is a young and very successful company helping many of the world’s most recognized organizations align societal, environmental and financial objectives (see www.alignedincentives.com ). We have recently been acquired by Bureau Veritas, a 200-year-old global leader in testing, inspection, and certification, with 400,000 customers, and are gearing up for hypergrowth in a market that is exploding in size. We are looking for talent that will help us build and promote best practice thinking at the intersection of societal, environmental and financial interests.

Senior Sustainability Consultant Saas

Position Description: We are looking for experienced sustainability consultants with preferable, but not necessarily, a focus on electronics, textile/fashion or agricultural supply chains. These individuals will be responsible for working with some of the largest organizations in the world to develop corporate and product impact inventories, set and track sustainability targets, identify embedded sustainability risk in the value chain, and create actionable sustainability strategies. Sustainability consultants are the main contact point with our clients and play a critical role in understanding our clients’ unique sustainability challenges and using the power of our revolutionary AITrack Software-as-a-service (Saas) platform and analyst teams to derive strategic insights to derive innovative solutions.

What You'll Do

• Expert knowledge of and demonstrated experience with major market drivers of sustainability, including the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP), the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).
• Expert knowledge of and demonstrated experience in Scope 1, 2 and 3 corporate accounting.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated experience in collecting, analyzing, and reporting on assessment and survey data.
• Strong experience writing technical documents and preparing client facing slide decks; including topics such as methodology documentation, summaries of analytical insights, and instructional materials.
• Demonstrated experience in sustainability consulting, preferably working with clients in the sectors of technology, apparel/textiles, and agriculture.
• Demonstrated experience with supporting clients in third-party assurance of corporate inventories.
• Demonstrated experience in developing financially driven sustainability strategies for clients.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, eager to learn new fields and grow with the company.
  
  

What You'll Bring

Education: Master’s or PhD in a sustainability-related degree with a heavy focus on environmental impact accounting, environmental engineering, and strategy development. Bachelor’s degree will be considered if candidate has demonstrated subject matter expertise and at minimum five (5) years of proven experience leading a portfolio of sustainability consulting engagements.

• Five (5) or more years of experience in leading sustainability related consulting engagements with end-to-end responsibilities including project management, client relations, active leadership and problem solving, and proposal writing.
• Experience with modelling impact mitigation interventions and building marginal abatement cost curves.
  
  

Nice To Have Skills

• Life cycle inventory database development/curation/maintenance.
• Content-specific knowledge/experience with electronics, textile/fashion or agricultural LCAs
• Expertise in renewable energy markets and opportunity identification.
• Programming experience, especially with R, Python and SQL.
• Experience with data visualization platforms (e.g., PowerBI).