AI Sustainability Consultant - Remote (Remote, Remote, US)

A WORLD LEADER IN TESTING, INSPECTION & CERTIFICATION SERVICES

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, gender identity, 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: Remote

Position Description:

A Sustainability Consultant helps organizations develop and implement strategies that reduce environmental impact while maintaining operational and financial performance. This role combines strategic planning, environmental expertise, and business insight to assess sustainability performance, develop ESG initiatives, and support carbon reduction or net-zero goals. Responsibilities include measuring greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1, 2, and 3), conducting energy and carbon analyses, identifying renewable energy and efficiency opportunities, and aligning operations with evolving environmental regulations and stakeholder expectations.

Education:

Master’s 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 seven years of proven experience developing and leading a portfolio of sustainability consulting engagements.

What You’ll Do:

1. Lead and project manage a portfolio of customer engagements requiring services such as corporate and product impact inventory development, target setting and tracking, and strategy development and implementation.
2. Maintain regular contact and communication with key customers throughout the term of the agreement, visiting primary customers as appropriate.
3. Ensures proper flow of information to customer pertaining to products and services offered.
4. Engage in analytical tasks to delivery corporate inventories, product footprints, and strategy analyses, including data collection, data processing, report generation, documentation, and quality assurance and control.
5. Ensure customer satisfaction by providing active customer engagement, strong project management, and strategic advisory services to help customers set and achieve sustainability related targets, with goal of growing services offered within existing customer portfolio.
6. Works with Sales team with the acquisition of new customers, including providing technical support in sales meetings and drafting proposals.
7. Performs other duties as assigned by the Service Manager.

What You’ll Bring:

1. Demonstrated experience in developing and leading sustainability related consulting engagements with end-to-end responsibilities including growing revenue with existing customers, activity working with sales to identify and close new customers, project management, client relations, active leadership and problem solving, developing price quotations, and proposal writing.
2. 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).
3. Expert knowledge of and demonstrated experience in Scope 1, 2 and 3 corporate accounting
4. Experience with modelling impact mitigation interventions and building marginal abatement cost curves.
5. Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
6. Demonstrated experience in collecting, analyzing, and reporting on assessment and survey data.
7. Strong experience writing technical documents and preparing client facing slide decks; including topics such as methodology documentation, summaries of analytical insights, and instructional materials.
8. Demonstrated experience in sustainability consulting, preferably working with clients in the sectors of technology, apparel/textiles, and agriculture.
9. Demonstrated experience with supporting clients in third-party assurance of corporate inventories.
10. Demonstrated experience in developing financially driven sustainability strategies for clients.
11. Entrepreneurial mindset, eager to learn new fields and grow with the company.

Nice to have skills:

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

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We are happy to assist you and encourage you to consider Bureau Veritas for your next great career opportunity!

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