Principal Sustainability Strategist
Quantis
- Lausanne
- Unbefristet
- Vollzeit
- You’re motivated to put your consulting, strategy and client relationship development skills to work towards our mission of aligning businesses with Planetary Boundaries.
- You want to contribute to the expansion of Quantis’ leading edge on business sustainability transformation nurturing the pipeline in order to achieve sales target.
- You’re motivated to develop and nurture client relationships at the C-Suite level to set up successful client relationship strategies to align our clients’ organization with planetary boundaries.
- You expect to manage and grow multiple key clients, acquire new clients and strive to make Quantis their preferred partner for their sustainability transformation.
- You’re an experienced and motivated senior strategy consultant looking for a big opportunity to work with top sustainability leaders and experts. Previous experience in a consulting firm will be considered as a big plus.
- You have a successful track record in sales and building strategies for clients.
- For 10+ years, you’ve been working in the strategy consulting space with significant exposure to and interest in corporate sustainability.
- Leading relationships with some of the world’s most influential businesses prioritizing Quantis core sectors (Food & Beverage, Fashion & Sporting Goods, Cosmetics & Personal Care, Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare, Finance, Chemicals, Retail, and others) with your deep understanding of business strategy and strategy consulting in these sectors.
- Being a strong business developer to nurture the pipeline in order to achieve branch sales target.
- Developing and delivering sustainability strategies for our key clients with the support of program & project managers, and subject matter experts.
- Helping to design the next generation of sustainability transformation offerings
- Leading project teams composed consultants with various sets of technical & transformation skills & environmental knowledge and expertise.
- Mentoring & training team members on strategy skills
- You have a very good understanding of organizations constraints and opportunities are able to anticipate & frame actionable and innovative solutions to help the client along their sustainability journey.
- You have strong strategic business planning skills and a successful track record in building and deploying strategies for clients; experience in program management is a plus.
- You’re a team player that enables others to be successful at finding solutions using their expertise by providing clear guidance, support, and direction.
- You communicate effectively and efficiently in fluent English and French and/or German (verbally and in writing).
- You have a strong ability to develop networks in your organization as well as in your clients’ organizations to maximize your impact.
- You’re experienced at and passionate about supporting the growth and development of your colleagues.
- You’re highly motivated by the challenges of guiding global companies on a sustainable change pathway, adapting your strategy expertise to new challenges and innovating new paths to success.
- Understanding and proactively addressing sustainability opportunities through the client lens of competitive advantage, risk & opportunities with C-Suite level client stakeholders
- Supporting your clients in building the case for transformation and unlocking major budget for transformation development and execution
- Leading the co-innovation of entirely new transformative proposals
- Proactively identifying and winning transformative enterprise projects
- Developing the client transformation sustainability strategy with senior sustainability leaders on the client side towards operating within planetary boundaries
- Ensuring the ambition and coherence of the pricing strategy for the client across branches
- Advising the project teams in executing projects at high quality quality to meet the objectives
- Ensuring and being accountable for the quality of deliverables of projects for the client
- Reviewing the course of transformation with Quantis team and the client
- Participating in project delivery by bringing expertise and seniority when and where needed
- 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.
- Location: Switzerland
- Optimal start date: As soon as possible
- Frequent collaboration with other Quantis branches (France, Italy, USA, Germany) via web-conferences
- Ability to travel (eventually), approximately 30%