Sustainability Specialist

THE ROLE

This role supports the development and delivery of ESG strategies solutions that address key challenges of Quantis clients, ensuring that the proposed delivery meets clients’ needs.

As a Sustainability Specialist at Quantis you will:

- Be responsible for the delivery of client projects in areas such as ESG strategy (both corporate and product-oriented), target setting, materiality assessments, CSRD compliance, sustainability reporting, sustainability communication, stakeholder engagement, marketing and change management solutions for sustainability.
- Contribute to multiple client projects involving one or more standard offerings
- Develop productive and comfortable working relationships with client contacts

You will be successful in your role if you:

- Contribute to building credible, trusted relationships with the project team and client contacts, supporting them from the development of the brief to the elaboration of ESG strategies, ESG data collection and reporting, and the creation of communication and engagement solutions for both internal teams and customers.

WHY YOU’LL LOVE QUANTIS

Quantis is a leading sustainability consultancy pioneering approaches to solve critical environmental challenges. For nearly two decades, our dynamic and visionary team has partnered with organizations across the globe to transform their industries and pave the way for a planetary economy that aligns business with nature. We strive to be agents of change, helping companies transform from business as usual to business at its best.

We believe that sustainable transformation is possible and within our power. We’re contributing to this transformation by combining the latest science with strategic business insights. Our advice enables global leaders in our focus sectors to understand how to reduce their environmental impacts, implement the changes and operate within planetary boundaries.

Motivated by this common purpose, our 300+ talented professionals cultivate a unique, collaborative culture that we call the Quantis Spirit. We are innovative. We are impact-oriented. We are science-based. We are Quantis.

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Learn more about Quantis and our Mission.

DOES THIS DESCRIBE YOU AND YOUR NEXT ROLE?
- You have +1 year of professional experience developing ESG strategies, with exposure to both consulting and the private sector. You’re familiar with key ESG frameworks and reporting standards, including CSRD, Double Materiality Assessment, ESRS, GRI, CDP, Taxonomy, and TCFD.
- You’re capable of delivering stakeholder engagement projects and understand the fundamentals of sustainability communication, including regulations such as the Green Claims Directive.
- You have experience in copywriting, and are comfortable working with tools like Canva, Miro, and Adobe Creative Suite (a plus).
- You bring a collaborative mindset, creative thinking, and a genuine passion for sustainability.
- You communicate effectively in fluent Italian and have professional proficiency in both English and French.

AS A SUSTAINABILITY SPECIALIST, HERE’S A PREVIEW OF WHAT TYPE OF WORK YOUR DAYS WILL INCLUDE:

- Collaborating closely with our Branch and Global Communication & Engagement teams to deliver high-quality projects.
- Co-developing unique, innovative solutions to address challenges related to sustainability strategies, communication, and engagement—working alongside Consultants, Project Managers, and Strategists.
- Supporting clients with a strong consulting mindset, from crafting the brief to delivering excellent ESG strategy outputs.
- Writing compelling stories that translate environmental metrics into impactful communication assets across digital and print media, including presentations, reports, infographics, brochures, and videos.
- Clearly explaining standard Quantis solutions and their interdependencies in a credible and engaging way.
- Assisting the project team in guiding clients through the understanding and implementation of sustainability solutions.
- Proactively identifying opportunities to support others and taking initiative to act on them.

TO THRIVE IN THE QUANTIS CULTURE, YOU’LL:

- 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 mínimal 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.

SOME OTHER DETAILS TO CONSIDER:

- Location: Italy (Milan) according to a distributed workf