Associate Director, Sustainability Consulting

**Role**

Associate Director, Sustainability Consulting, LATAM

**Location**

Brazil

**Who we are**

At ELEVATE, we offer a unique and impactful career journey designed to empower our teams to influence change on people, planet, and community. Join our team for a truly international experience. With 24+ offices globally (and still growing), you will have exposure to real issues that span the globe. Fasten your seatbelt for an energetic and dynamic experience where you will partner with world class leaders on solving some of the planet’s most imminent issues (climate change, human rights, sustainability, and more) in new and innovative ways to achieve our goals together

**Job overview at a glance**

ELEVATE is looking for a senior and experienced professional to help to develop our growing sustainability advisory services in the Hispanic Americas market. The Associate Director, Sustainability Consulting will lead and coordinate a team of consultants and will be instrumental in the evolution and scaling of our transformative products, building consistency in quality and delivery across our global consulting practice, and achieving our annual revenue targets. This is an exceptional opportunity for a creative and entrepreneurial individual, who is truly passionate about new market development, high performing teams and the design / implementation of business-driven sustainability solutions.

You will work with private sector clients, spanning a variety of sectors, including consumer goods, retail, food/agriculture, apparel, finance and other industries. You will be part of the leadership of the LATAM consulting team and will work with ELEVATE teams across the globe to thrive the fast-growing ESG-market.

We are looking for individuals who will be motivated by the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of corporate sustainability and that are energized by innovative and challenging environments.

You need to have a willingness to be challenged and lead a team of engaged consultants. You will have the opportunity to consolidate the regional position of ELEVATE and contribute to ELEVATE’s strategic direction as we grow and expand over the next 3-5 years and you will drive the development of ELEVATE various products and services.

**Who you are**

Are you thrilled by the idea of working in a business that aims to make the world a better place? Do you want to work:

- on environmental, social and governance challenges
- with an amazing team of like-minded creative thinkers
- in a fast-paced dynamic environment
- for some of the biggest and most forward-looking brands in the world
- while, yes, getting paid for it?

**Responsibilities**

Business Development (30%)
- Develop a global client base including relationships with senior industry executives and business leaders
- Manage and grow a pipeline of existing and new business in close collaboration with regional leaders and Customer team; includes forecasting, project planning, pricing strategies, and team / individual targets
- Lead the development / implementation of a sustainability consulting strategy and structure in US
- Manage relevant Knowledge Hubs, learning platforms and thought leadership, e.g. webinars, blogs per annum, product briefings and trainings (internal and external), etc.
- Pro-actively seek out opportunities to deliver high quality, innovative and impactful consultancy and program development for both sustainability and supply chain consulting opportunities as well as ELEVATE Strategic Partners

Delivery & Advisory (30%)
- Work collaboratively with the Consulting and Analytics teams to deliver pragmatic, scalable solutions that motivate performance improvement and transparency
- Effectively deliver solutions utilizing the ELEVATE product-suite across EiQ and ELEVATE’s program effectiveness workflow
- Ensure consistent use of tools, ways of working and world-class quality levels in the delivery of supply chain consulting product offering; this includes across different parts of the consulting organization
- Align with internal leaders on key products, training, templates for productized deliverables etc. as this role requires significant cross-team collaboration and synergistic product oversight / management
- Drive execution of strategic consulting programs in the US with visibility at the executive level
- Guide team on providing reports based on metrics, research, and best practices with a goal of increasing overall success rate
- Support team in detecting issues and investigating ways to resolve quickly as to not impact business development
- Assess team skill set to leverage the team’s ability to conduct research, surveys, and interviews to understand client business, compile information, and concisely present to exceed client expectations

Strategic Planning & Revenue Management (20%)
- Inform and implement the global SCC strategy and structure with annual goals aligned to ELEVATE objectives
- Represents ELEVATE as a thought l