Sustainability Manager, Fashion & Sporting Goods

Quantis; Milano; In loco; EUR 50.000 - 70.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading sustainability consultancy in Milan is seeking a Sustainability Manager to lead client engagements and manage major accounts. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of experience in sustainability or consulting, strong project management skills, and a Master's degree. Responsibilities include implementing strategies aligned with client sustainability goals and mentoring junior team members. Join a dynamic team focused on transforming business practices towards a sustainable future.

Competenze

• Minimum 4 years of relevant work experience in sustainability or consulting.
• Proven experience in managing projects related to sustainability.
• Strong understanding of challenges in the Fashion & SG sector.

Mansioni

• Lead client engagements and manage major accounts.
• Implement account strategies to meet client sustainability goals.
• Mentor junior colleagues and support their growth.

Conoscenze

Client relationship management

Project management

Business development

Sustainability knowledge

Fluent Italian

Fluent English

Using generative AI tools

Formazione

Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Environmental Science, Engineering, or Economics

Strumenti

Excel

PowerPoint

Descrizione del lavoro

THE ROLE

As a Sustainability Manager focusing on client relationships, you’ll lead client engagements, manage major accounts and complex projects within Fashion & SG team. You’ll play a key role in growing business by cultivating strategic partnerships, identifying new opportunities, securing new business and co-creating solutions aligned with client needs. You will contribute significantly to the company’s revenue growth and strengthen our market presence in the sector.

You’ll craft and implement account strategies that reflect client priorities and sustainability goals, working closely with internal experts to ensure quality and consistency across delivery. You’ll collaborate with experienced consultants, and junior colleagues to deliver impactful work — primarily within your sector, while occasionally contributing to projects across other areas. In doing so, you’ll continue building your consulting and relationship management skills in a collaborative, purpose-driven environment.

You’ll also mentor junior colleagues and may progressively take on line management responsibilities to support their growth and development.

WHY YOU’LL LOVE QUANTIS

Quantis, a BCG company, is a leading sustainability consultancy tackling the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. For nearly two decades, our expert team has partnered with organizations across the globe to transform industries and shape an economy that thrives in harmony with nature. We guide companies from business as usual to business at its best by uniting the latest science with strategic insights, helping them reduce impacts, implement solutions, and operate within planetary boundaries.

United by a common purpose, our 300+ professionals embody a unique, collaborative culture that we call the Quantis Spirit. We are innovative. We are impact-oriented. We are science-driven. We are Quantis.

Learn more about Quantis and our mission.

ARE YOU READY TO LEAD SUSTAINABILITY PROJECTS AND GUIDE TEAMS?

• You’re eager to apply your sustainability experience, business development, client relationship and consulting capabilities to our mission of aligning businesses with planetary boundaries.
• You have minimum 4 years of work experience relevant to the role, with exposure to sustainability and / or consulting.
• You’re actively shaping your long-term path as a business development professional and feel confident to manage Fashion & SG accounts topics.
• You have a good understanding of key challenges in Fashion & SG sector.
• You have proven experience in project management.
• You have solid knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
• You bring a Master’s degree or equivalent experience that equips you to guide companies to understand and design transformative and science-based strategy (Environmental Science, Engineering, Economics...)
• Whatever your background, you’re intellectually curious, have a science-based mindset, and motivated to learn and grow.
• You’re motivated for teamwork and can coach, teach and mentor team members with your knowledge and skills.
• You’re confident using generative AI tools, while valuing human judgment.
• You communicate effectively in fluent Italian and English.

WHAT YOU MIGHT ALSO BRING TO THE ROLE

• Additional knowledge in further corporate sustainability topics and / or sectors other than your specific sector.
• You have a good knowledge of sustainability frameworks and tools relevant to your expertise area

SOME OTHER DETAILS TO CONSIDER

• Contract : Permanent
• Location : Milan
• Optimal start date : Q4
• Punctual collaboration with other Quantis branches via web-conference
• You might be expected to work at the client’s office and / or to travel there at times.

Unlocking the Potential of All Quantisians

At Quantis, Unlocking Potential means empowering our employees to thrive, enabling them to drive our mission and manifesto forward—creating meaningful impact for people and the planet.

We aim to achieve this by nurturing a culture rooted in collective action, and shared purpose, where diversity is cherished, inclusion is lived, mental wellbeing is supported, and opportunities are open to all.

This extends to our clients, their clients, and their entire value chain as sustainable thinking and collective representation are integral components of our purpose to transform the way that businesses operate.

This is how we commit to our people, live our manifesto, and shape a sustainable future - together.

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