Senior Consultant, Sustainability Advisory

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Consultant to join our U.S.

-based Sustainability Advisory business.
You will be a key contributor to our Sustainability Advisory team in the U.S., serving on project delivery primarily for decarbonization and net zero strategy and implementation services, as well as supporting our overall sustainability capabilities (Climate Risk and Reporting, Sustainability Strategy and Program Design, Sustainability Measurement, Sustainability Goal Setting and Achievement Plans, Sustainability Reporting, Net Zero Strategy, Circularity, Nature and Biodiversity etc.)

across a range of industries.

This role is hybrid role located in Arcadis’s office in New York City. The ideal candidate for this role will be a highly organized self-starter with strong program management and communication skills, proven experience delivering decarbonization strategy and implementation programs to global portfolios, and ability to collaborate across internal functions, cultures, and geographies.

Arcadis is focused on solving our clients most complex sustainability challenges. As such, you will help build the strategy around, innovate approaches for, and grow the Sustainability Advisory services in North America, reporting to our North America Managing Director, Sustainability Advisory. This role will work horizontally across our Global Business Areas, Mobility, Places, Resilience and Intelligence, draw upon their capabilities as needed to support the advisory team and drive demand for the “pull-through” of Arcadis’ other technical services.

As Senior Consultant, Sustainability Advisory, you will be responsible for leading the delivery of and business growth in decarbonization related programs ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management, collaboration between Arcadis colleagues and client business representatives. The ideal candidate needs to demonstrate strong consulting, program management and communication skills and executive presence with ability to explain complex topics to a variety of audiences, and should have the ability to master and navigate new subject domains quickly and innovative problem-solving skills, and demonstrated experience in successfully navigating in a cross-functional role

The role requires experience implementing decarbonization programs at a global scale with measurable results, and experience with multi stakeholder engagement. The candidate should demonstrate experience delivering decarbonization strategy and implementation plans; energy and GHG emission calculations and modeling, and financial planning preferably in real estate and built environment; reporting in line with frameworks such as GHG protocol, Science Based Targets Initiative, CSRD, EU Taxonomy.

Outstanding communication and people management skills, especially the ability to collate and synthesize data into simple, concise language; and collaboration across geographies. In addition, strong consulting, client relationship and project management skills and the ability to lead tasks and project teams to successful delivery

• Leading projects and business growth focused on net zero targets, strategies, financial and implementation plans primarily for real estate sector in addition to other sectors such as retail, manufacturing, infrastructure, technology and transportation sectors.
• Maintaining deep familiarity with relevant frameworks, rules and guidelines across sectors in particular the built environment including GHG Protocol, and target setting frameworks such as the Race to Zero, and SBTi, upcoming rules and standards
• Leading the delivery of projects and delivery team from project inception to close, ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management, oversight of high quality deliverables, and collaboration among Arcadis colleagues
• Developing and maintaining strong client relationship and communication and identifying sell-on opportunities to generate additional services
• Supporting the development of a cross-functional decarbonization end to end offerings alongside global colleagues and driving business growth and proposal development