Senior Sustainability Consultant

Trellis Group; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage

Company-matched Retirement plan

Generous Paid Time Off

Job summary

Bureau Veritas is seeking a Senior Sustainability Consultant to lead a portfolio of client engagements focused on inventories, target setting, and strategy implementation. You will serve as the primary client contact, translating challenges into actionable analytical work and delivering practical insights using BV tools.

You will collaborate with sales to grow the client base, develop deliverables, and support third-party assurance processes, contributing to strategic sustainability outcomes for

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a sustainability-related field preferred.
• 7+ years leading sustainability consulting engagements.
• Experience with GHGP, SBTi, ISSB frameworks.
• Experience collecting, analyzing, and reporting sustainability data.
• Strong client relationship management and proposal development skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a portfolio of client engagements including inventories and target setting.
• Serve as primary client contact and visit key customers as needed.
• Translate sustainability challenges into analytical plans, deliverables and recommendations.
• Coordinate information flow to clients regarding products, services, timelines, deliverables, and status.
• Perform data collection, processing, inventory development, product footprinting, and report generation.
• Provide strategic advisory to help clients set and track targets.
• Support growth by identifying opportunities and assisting Sales with proposals and pricing.
• Develop client-facing deliverables such as technical docs and slide decks.
• Support third-party assurance of inventories and disclosures.
• Use Bureau Veritas tools to derive insights for client decisions.

Skills

Client management

Project leadership

Analytical thinking

Strategic advisory

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Master's degree in sustainability-related field

Bachelor's degree + 7+ years sustainability consulting

Tools

R

Python

SQL

Power BI

Job description

Position Description:

The Senior Sustainability Consultant leads and manages a portfolio of client engagements focused on corporate and product impact inventory development, target setting and tracking, and sustainability strategy development and implementation. This role serves as a key client contact, translates sustainability challenges into actionable analytical work, and leverages Bureau Veritas and Aligned Incentives tools, including AITrack, to deliver strategic insights and practical solutions.

What You’ll Do:

• 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.

What You’ll Bring:

• 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.


• 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.

Competency:

• Client Focus: Builds trusted relationships, understands client needs, and delivers practical sustainability solutions.


• Strategic Thinking: Connects sustainability data, business objectives, regulatory trends, and market drivers to actionable strategies.


• Project Leadership: Plans, organizes, and drives multiple client engagements to timely and high-quality completion.


• Analytical Thinking: Interprets complex datasets and sustainability methods to produce accurate insights and recommendations.


• Communication: Explains technical sustainability concepts clearly through meetings, reports, presentations, and client materials.


• Business Development Mindset: Identifies growth opportunities, supports proposal development, and partners effectively with Sales.


• Problem Solving: Addresses ambiguous client, data, methodology, or implementation issues with sound judgment.


• Collaboration: Works effectively with sustainability, financial, IT, data science, software, sales, and client teams.


• Quality Orientation: Ensures deliverables are accurate, well-documented, and aligned with applicable standards and client expectations.


• Adaptability and Learning Agility: Quickly learns new sectors, sustainability topics, tools, and client environments.


• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Takes initiative, identifies improvements, and contributes to growth in a fast-paced environment.


• Integrity and Accountability: Documents assumptions, manages commitments, and uses client data responsibly.

Education, Certifications and Experience:

• 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.


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

At Bureau Veritas, we are dedicated to ensuring our employees receive fair and competitive pay, accompanied by comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

Here’s a breakdown of what we provide:

Base Pay is adjusted based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.

Our Health and Welfare Benefits are designed to meet your needs, eligible on your first day of employment:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage


• Company-matched Retirement plan


• Generous Paid Time Off and Company Holidays


• Life Insurance and AD&D coverage


• Short-Term Disability (STD) and Long-Term Disability (LTD)


• Tuition Assistance, along with optional life and pet insurance


• Access to Corporate Discounts

This information is transparently provided in adherence to several state and local Equal Pay and Pay Transparency Laws, with our base pay determined by market location.

Join us at Bureau Veritas, where your well-being and professional growth are our top priorities.