Job Description

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Overview

• Are you a highly motivated, analytical professional with at least 3-5 years' professional working experience in the corporate sustainability field?
• Have you worked on topics including calculating companies' carbon footprints and developing (science-based) targets and strategies to reduce their climate impact?
• And are you interested in working together with talented people, for leading multinational companies to help solve some of society's most complex and challenging problems?

Then this job opening might just be the one for you!

Guidehouse is a leading management consulting firm serving the public and commercial markets. We guide our clients forward towards new futures that build trust in society and your professional skills along the journey. Guidehouse is a combination of PwC's former US public sector practice and Navigant's deep expertise in energy, financial services and healthcare.

We offer an exciting, fast-paced environment that fosters intellectual growth and rewards individuals based on impact, not tenure. We focus on markets facing transformational change, technology-driven innovation, and significant regulatory pressure. Our employees develop and deploy world-class knowledge and problem solving that leads to breakthrough solutions.

Based within our Solutions team in India, in this position you will collaborate with our global Sustainability team located in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

This position is for someone to integrate with our Sustainability team which works with companies to set and achieve sustainability goals, including deep decarbonization. This team serves a wide range of corporate clients from globally recognized consumer brands to energy intensive industries.

Examples of the type of work you would contribute to include:

• Developing a complete scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon footprint for a global food and beverage company
• Setting science-based greenhouse-gas targets for a global restaurant brand
• Developing a decarbonization roadmap for an industry sector association
• Creating strategies and initiatives for a global port and terminal operator to reach net-zero climate targets
• Implementing an emission tracking system for a global logistics company
• Establishing a sustainability program for a fashion company
• Supporting an industrial company to procure renewable electricity
• Preparing market forecasts for low-carbon building technology providers
• Conducting ESG materiality assessment & benchmarking for a Food & Beverage company
• Conducting surveys and energy audits in supply chain
• Implementing decarbonization projects at factories, buildings and other facilities
• Supporting a climate risk assessment and TCFD disclosure
• Supporting a CDP or GRESB report submission

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities working with the sustainability team, include:

• Data Analysis:

• Data gathering and analysis, creating detailed and well-formatted calculation models (e.g. carbon footprint calculations).
• Identifying issues with methodologies and analysis and communicating about gaps and uncertainties appropriately
• Research:

• Providing detailed fact finding, industry research, and analysis on business, climate, sustainability, and energy-related activities
• Business Writing and Presentations:

• Preparing presentations and workshops and presenting your findings to clients.
• Writing reports and supporting proposal development activities
• Client and Internal Communication:

• Conducting client interviews independently
• Proactive communication with project manager and consultants in Europe, North America and Middle East
• Support implementing our new

(built on Salesforce):

• Support client (energy, carbon, waste, water, & other ESG) data integration in Papaya's carbon footprint calculator, and data quality management.
• Communicate/collaborate with Salesforce development team and project teams to confirm data modeling approach for client sustainability data in Papaya
• Task & Project management:

• By contributing to complex projects, you will learn about project management by first managing smaller tasks. As you develop project management skills you will have the opportunity to progress to the next lev

Qualifications

• Relevant Experience & Training [mandatory for application]

• 3-5 years working experience in the field of corporate sustainability and carbon emission analyses.
• Master's degree in engineering, environmental science, physics, economics, mathematics. Specific training in climate change and sustainability related topics is a bonus.

• Experienced and skilled with PowerPoint and Excel and other MS Office Tools

• Exposure to Sustainability Tools, Methods and Standards

• Carbon Footprinting - GHG Protocol Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3, ISO 14067/14040/14044.
• Science-based target setting including absolute and sector specific standards
• ESG Assessment - key ESG standards and frameworks including EU Taxonomy, SFDR, TCFD, SDGs, GRI, SASB, materiality mapping, rating methodologies and scoring, ESG report writing
• TCFD Climate Risk Assessment - performing climate risk assessment and working knowledge of the TCFD framework, strongly preferred
• Sustainability Reporting - CDP Climate/Water/Forest and TCFD
• Life Cycle Analysis - EcoInvent, Gabi, Simapro
• GHG Abatement - Developing roadmaps towards target achievement and construction of marginal abatement cost curves(MACC) or carbon abatement measures. Conducting energy audits and supporting implementation of GHG abatement projects.

• Familiarity with Sustainability Topics

• Energy (e.g., hydrogen economy, advanced energy technologies, electricity power and gas industries, renewable energy)
• Sustainability (e.g., ESG, circular economy)
• Regulatory (Compliance requirements, disclosures, energy markets)
• Innovation (e.g., advancement of new ideas and technologies)

• Strong Quantitative and Analytical Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• A critical thinker with a strong eye for detail
• Able to show data collection and organizational skills
• Ability to work, organize and analyze large datasets in Excel
• Ability to instruct data analysts to develop results

Additional Requirements

Strong Qualitative and Team Skills

• Strong communication, writing and presentation skills
• Proven ability to summarize complex material into key findings and implications for our clients
• A team player who demonstrates the willingness and ability to work effectively in diverse teams and collaborate with colleagues at all levels

Language

• Must be able to work fluently in English (written and spoken).
• Fluency in other languages such as German, Dutch, French or Spanish is a bonus.

Other

• Proven extracurricular activities and/or international experience aligned with the position