Sustainability Expert

THE ROLE  

This role supports the development and delivery of sustainable solutions that address key challenges and opportunities that Quantis clients face in the Nature field, ensuring that the proposed delivery meets clients’ needs. Your mission will be to maintain Quantis at the cutting-edge of your area of expertise to maximize the quality and impact of our advice to transform our clients, and to continuously improve our offerings.  

You will be expected to deliver on nature-related client projects, to actively engage in business development, and to support our Swiss and global communities of expertise in developing materials and managing knowledge to maximize the quality and impact of our nature-related services (biodiversity, water, climate, plastic pollution, land…) to transform our clients and help solve global environmental challenges.    

As a Sustainability Expert – Nature/Water at Quantis you will:  

• Be a subject matter expert for Quantis regarding questions related to Water and Nature 

• Deliver environmental assessments (notably footprints and risks) and contribute to strategy development and implementation (target-setting, roadmaps, action plans) as part of client projects    

• Contribute to multiple client projects including significant projects at key account level, ensuring the quality in the delivery of your expertise in projects or in proposals through technical & quality control but also in scoping work to deliver  

• Develop credible, trusted relationships with senior client project contacts  

• Support sales process on complex, significant opportunities at key accounts, scoping the work to deliver  

You will be successful in your role if you:  

• Master scientific knowledge and possess strategic acumen to deliver on Quantis offerings within the Nature and Water fields 

• Reliably deliver error-free and insightful analyses and recommendations in challenging analytical and strategic contexts  

• Are seen as an effective team leader on projects and in the expert community  

• Are able to combine your expertise with other expertise from the Nature realm (namely water and land) in order to deliver cross-functional results and projects 

DOES THIS DESCRIBE YOU AND YOUR NEXT ROLE?  

• You’re motivated to put your technical expertise to work towards our mission of aligning businesses with Planetary Boundaries.  

• You have 8+ years of professional experience within a consulting, academic or not-for-profit organization or corporate related to nature assessments, strategy development and project implementation.    

• You are at ease with data management and analytics, already performing or willing to learn to conduct materiality, footprint, and risk assessments across a broad range of environmental topics, namely nature, climate, water, land, and plastic pollution.    

• You can communicate complex sustainability issues and opportunities for business value in clear and actionable ways.  

• You are a subject matter expert on land and nature topics, motivated by building this field of expertise and training others at Quantis.    

• You have demonstrated experience in applying the most recent methodologies and frameworks in the water and Nature field (e.g., SBTN, TNFD, EII, water risk assessment etc.)   

• You have been exposed to collaborative project/program development and implementation in the Water and Nature field.  

• You have a science-based orientation, and a deep intellectual and business curiosity, combined with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate complex information in clear, understandable ways to internal and external audiences.    

• You’re motivated for teamwork and supporting a team.   

• You’re able to use your technical experience to provide technical support, coaching, and technical review both internally and externally.   

• You get excited about guiding companies to understand and design transformative and science-based strategy.   

• You have a master’s and/or PhD degree in environmental sciences, engineering, or other related field of education.    

• You communicate effectively in fluent English and French and/or German.   

• You have demonstrated the ability to coach, teach, and mentor others with your knowledge and skills, in an academic and/or corporate setting.  
    

AS A SUSTAINABILITY EXPERT – NATURE/WATER, HERE’S A PREVIEW OF WHAT TYPE OF WORK YOUR DAYS WILL INCLUDE:  

Client project delivery:  

• Running environmental assessments, interpreting results, defining targets, strategies, action plans, roadmaps and delivering client presentations  

• Participating in client meetings and workshops  

• Coordinating with the project team, enabling the successful delivery of projects in every stage  

Contribution to building expertise in Water and Nature :   

• Developing unique, nature-related innovative solutions to address challenges related to Nature together with other Sustainability Experts, Project Managers and Strategists  

• Conducting market research and business case development  

• Creating knowledge material & templates, delivering related trainings  

• Ensuring internal consistency and excellence of the Quantis approach in the Nature field  

• Explaining many standard Quantis solutions and their interdependencies in a credible and compelling way  

• Identifying process or system improvements that could improve project team effectiveness  

• Mentoring and guiding Sustainability Specialists  

Contribution to business development: 

• Contributing to proposal development and providing reliable proposal review   

• Participating in scoping conversations and pitches with Quantis teams and clients  

• Proactively identifying further sales opportunities at active clients  

TO THRIVE IN THE QUANTIS CULTURE, YOU’LL:  

• Show up as team collaborator with a win-win attitude: empathetic, attentive and supportive of colleagues when co-designing or co-delivering a project.   

• Take responsibility and ownership for your work: think and act with autonomy or authority, while knowing when to ask for help.  

• Take initiative if something needs to be done.  

• Be positive Use positive language, look at challenges not as bottlenecks, but as problems to solve, and see setbacks as lessons learned.  

• Practice open and transparent communication; welcome effective dialogue and productive disagreement with minimal tension.   

• Self-Manage: be in the driver’s seat of your professional growth and ambitions all the while valuing the learning journey and opportunities within Quantis.  

SOME OTHER DETAILS TO CONSIDER:  

• Location: Switzerland 

• Optimal start date: As soon as possible 

• Frequent collaboration with other Quantis branches (France, USA, Germany and Italy) via web-conferences 

• Ability to travel, primarily in Switzerland, and at times in Europe 

Quantis has a distinctive, fluid structure nurtured by our Quantis Spirit and our way of collaborating that provides a positive and unique working environment.   

At Quantis we believe that equality, diversity and inclusiveness are central to our mission of building a sustainable future. Quantis is an equal opportunity employer that embraces people from diverse backgrounds including race, color, nationality, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital or parental status, disability, religion, creed, politics, or any other non-merit factor. It is our daily commitment to ensure that each Quantisian works in an environment where they belong and where they can thrive.