Senior Sustainability Consultant

Environment & Sustainability Consulting (Consulting & Strategy)

Full time

Schneider Electric is one of the world’s most sustainable companies – and we seek like-minded, passionate people that share our values to join our team. Our Sustainability Business is a leader in the development and delivery of strategic solutions to address climate action, including sustainability and ESG consulting, data and resource management, enterprise efficiency, renewable energy procurement, and supply chain decarbonization.

About the Role

Position Summary:

As a member of the Sustainability Consulting team, the Senior Sustainability Consultant will be responsible for leading and contributing to the delivery of projects to customers through a consulting delivery model.

Position Responsibilities:

Your core responsibilities:

1. Lead and partner with Clients in developing sustainable, energy, GHG emissions, and climate risk management strategies across direct client operations and their value chain.
2. Lead the development and implementation of client sustainability strategies including facilitating executive/elected official level presentations and the analysis and benchmarking of performance to support organizational goal setting and implementation planning.
3. Coordinate and manage multi-disciplinary, or multi-workstream projects spanning various aspects of a client’s sustainability journey in a collaborative and effective manner. This can involve creating project plans, delegating tasks and deliverables to colleagues, and providing ultimate oversight, review, and reporting of deliverables to ensure quality and appropriateness.
4. Manage project delivery including analysis and benchmarking performance, strategy development, workshop design and facilitation, executive level presentations to support organizational goal setting and implementation planning.
5. Develop environmental inventories and reporting on greenhouse gas (GHG), energy, waste, water, and others through data analysis, emission factor development, methodology definition, and data platform deployment (e.g., Resource Advisor) to support clients\‘ environmental reporting activities.
6. Develop or recommend strategies, initiatives, and abatement models for informing the setting and achievement of corporate goals for GHG reduction, energy reduction, or green energy adoptions, including scenario modelling toward targets (e.g., SBTi, Net Zero, Climate Active, RE100).
7. Engage supply chain and value chain to decarbonize and enhance sustainability performance including data quantification and transparency; and strategic collaboration and engagement in support of sustainability (e.g. Circular Economy) and carbon (e.g. Scope 3) outcomes.

As part of the team, you will also:

1. Maintain and evolve a thought-leadership position including research, filter, warehouse, and communicate emerging information, trends, risks, and best practices relating to sustainability.
2. Organize, inform, and partner with multi-disciplinary teams within Schneider Electric to coordinate service and solutions development and delivery to optimize client delivery.
3. Contribute to the coaching and development of both internal and external stakeholders including the development of training and capacity building materials.

About You

1. Tertiary level qualifications in a related field including sustainability, business, finance, accounting, engineering, or environmental management.
2. Proven track record in consulting environment; developing, managing, and executing client-facing projects.
3. Expertise across sustainability strategy, climate risk, greenhouse gas management, operational and supply chain decarbonization, and circularity.
4. Knowledge of the following would be beneficial: International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI), Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmarks (GRESB), and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).
5. Ability to plan and work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt and reprioritize as necessary.
6. Strong organization problem-solving skills, paired with a willingness to take ownership of tasks/problems.
7. Strong aptitude for learning new and different topics.
8. Analytical self-starter with strong attention to detail.
9. Demonstrated ability to build successful relationships and work well with a large network of internal colleagues.
10. Ability to present to and work with people at C-level/Board/Executives.
11. High commitment to company vision, values, and excellent customer service.
12. Proficient experience in Microsoft Office Products, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

We seek out and reward people for being straightforward, open, passionate, effective, and challenging the status quo. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate. We welcome people as they are, creating an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity are seen as a real value for the company. We’re looking for people with a passion for success — on the job and beyond.

Let us learn about you! Apply today.

Primary Location: Australia: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane

Schedule: Full-time

All applicants must have working rights in Australia at the time of application and will be required to provide documented evidence if selected for an interview.

Schneider Electric does not accept unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles from external agencies or suppliers via any method.

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