Senior Sustainability Strategist - Food
Quantis
- Milano
- Tempo indeterminato
- Full time
- Contribute to the expansion of Quantis’ leading edge on business sustainability transformation nurturing the pipeline in order to achieve sales target in the Food Sector.
- 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.
- Manage and grow multiple Food key clients, acquire new clients and strive to make Quantis their preferred partner for their sustainability transformation.
- Are able to anticipate your client needs by building a strong network at the client thanks to your strong relationship skills, your credibility as a leading edge sustainability transformation professional.
- Can leverage Quantis expertise and ecosystem to deliver the needed client transformation towards operating within planetary boundaries and co-create transformative client vision of sustainable business
- 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’re an experienced and motivated senior strategy consultant in the food and beverage sector (or similar sector) 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 5+ years, you’ve been working in the strategy consulting space with significant exposure to and interest in corporate sustainability.
- You’ll get boosted by a fast-paced and diverse role:
- Leading relationships with some of the world’s most influential food businesses
- 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 subject matter experts
- Helping to design the next generation of sustainability transformation offerings
- Leading project teams composed by consultants with various sets of technical & transformation skills & environmental knowledge and expertise
- Mentoring & training team members on strategy skills
- 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 Italian and English (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.
- Ensuring the ambition and coherence of the pricing strategy for the client across branches
- Advising the project teams in executing projects at high quality to meet the objectives
- Ensuring and being accountable for the quality of deliverables of projects for the client
- Developing the client transformation sustainability strategy and reviewing the course of transformation with Quantis team and the client
- Participating in project delivery by bringing expertise and seniority when and where needed
- 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 proposal
- 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: Italy (Milan or other locations) according to a distributed workforce framework (on-going project)
- Optimal start date: As soon as possible
- Frequent collaboration with other Quantis branches (France, Germany, Switzerland, USA) via web-conferences
- Ability to travel (eventually), approximately 30%