Job Description
Learn, grow, and make a difference. Continue your consulting journey with a team shaping the future of sustainability.
· Do you want to learn from leading experts in environmental sustainability?
· Do you want to contribute to projects that help companies reduce their footprint and rethink their strategy?
· Are you excited to explore diverse sustainability topics and build expertise along the way?
· Are you ready to grow in a collaborative environment where curiosity, learning, and impact go hand in hand?
THE ROLE
As a Sustainability Consultant, you’ll play a key role in delivering sustainability insights and solutions for clients across multiple sectors. Working closely with project managers, experts, and client stakeholders, you’ll manage distinct project workstreams, own high-quality deliverables, and help shape actionable strategies through your understanding of core Quantis services.
You’ll collaborate with experienced consultants and junior colleagues to address a wide range of client needs in sustainability domains such as corporate and product footprinting, nature (biodiversity, water), climate strategy & risk, land & agriculture, ESG reporting and stakeholder engagement etc. — while continuing to grow your consulting skillset and expertise in a purpose-driven environment.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE QUANTIS
Quantis, a BCG company, is a leading sustainability consultancy helping organizations address complex environmental challenges. For two decades, our expert team has partnered with organizations across the globe to bring sustainability into strategy, decision making, and action. We guide companies from ambition to action by uniting the latest science with strategic insights, helping them navigate complexity, make progress on sustainability priorities and create lasting value.
United by a shared commitment to making meaningful progress, our 250+ professionals embody a unique, collaborative culture that we call the Quantis Spirit. We are innovative. We are impact-oriented. We are science-driven. We are Quantis.
Learn more about Quantis and our mission.
ARE YOU READY TO TAKE THE LEAD IN YOUR SUSTAINABILITY CAREER?
· You’re eager to apply your analytical or business skills to our mission of aligning businesses with planetary boundaries.
· You have 2-5+ years of work experience relevant to the role, ideally with exposure to sustainability, consulting, or analytics.
· You’re comfortable with data analysis, modelling, and communicating complex ideas clearly.
· You think critically, generate insights, and apply sound judgment to real-world challenges.
· You have working knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
· You bring a Master’s degree or equivalent experience that prepares you to engage with sustainability topics (Environmental Science, Engineering, Business, Economics…).
· Whatever your background, you’re intellectually curious, have a science-based mindset, and motivated to learn and grow.
· You’re comfortable stepping out of your comfort zone and working on different kinds of projects.
· You’re beginning to explore your long-term path — whether deepening your expertise or growing into a client-facing role.
· You collaborate well with others and enjoy contributing to a team.
· You’re comfortable using generative AI tools, while maintaining a critical and thoughtful mindset.
· You communicate effectively in fluent English.
WHAT YOU MIGHT ALSO BRING TO THE ROLE
· Existing knowledge in corporate sustainability topics such as land & agriculture, carbon footprinting, nature, materiality, sustainable supply chains or stakeholder management or ESG reporting & disclosure.
· Knowledge of sustainability frameworks such as GHG Protocol and Science-Based Targets.
· Knowledge of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Footprinting, and relevant softwares.
· Programming skills (e.g. Python, MATLAB, ArcGIS) and motivation to develop them.
· Initial experience in one of the industries where Quantis’ major clients operate (https://quantis.com/industries).
WHEN YOU MIGHT BE READY FOR THE NEXT STEP
As you build on your sectoral/subject matter expertise and consulting skills as a Sustainability Consultant, you’ll be ready to lead a small team to deliver projects and providing day-to-day mentorship and guidance to junior colleagues. Your next step will be Sustainability Manager, where you may focus on expert delivery or client relationships.
SOME OTHER DETAILS TO CONSIDER
Contract: Permanent
Location: Boston, New York, Chicago or Denver. Hybrid scheme. You might be expected to work at the client’s office and/or to travel there at times.
Optimal start date: As soon as possible
Punctual collaboration with other Quantis branches via web-conference
Ability to travel occasionally
Salary Range: $99,000–$109,500
Unlocking the Potential of All Quantisians
At Quantis, Unlocking Potential means empowering our employees to thrive, enabling them to drive our mission and manifesto forward—creating meaningful impact for people and the planet.
We aim to achieve this by nurturing a culture rooted in collective action, and shared purpose, where diversity is cherished, inclusion is lived, mental wellbeing is supported, and opportunities are open to all.
This extends to our clients, their clients, and their entire value chain as sustainable thinking and collective representation are integral components of our purpose to transform the way that businesses operate.
This is how we commit to our people, live our manifesto, and shape a sustainable future - together.
