Sustainability Senior Strategist (Account Manager - Sales): Food & Beverage - Quantis

BusinessTitle: Senior Sustainability Strategist - Food & Beverage

Location: Remote

As a Food & Beverage Senior Sustainability Account Manager (Senior Strategist), you will lead the development and oversee the delivery of winning sustainability strategies for our Food & Beverage clients in the US, and contribute to the expansion of Quantis’ strategic solutions. This role is a blend of account management, sales, relationship management, strategy creation, and tactical implementation. This role reports to the US Food & Beverage Sector Lead and related US Branch tasks with achieving business development goals. This is a remote position able to work out of most states in the USA.

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 of talent has partnered with leading organizations across the globe to transform their industries and pave the way for a planetary economy that aligns business with nature — 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 environmental science with strategic business insights. Our counsel and guidance enables global leaders in the consumer goods and finance industries 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.

Join us!

Does this describe you and your next role?

• You’re motivated to put your creativity, strategy development, client relationship development and consulting skills to work towards our mission of aligning business with Planetary Boundaries and building a sustainable future.
• You’re an experienced and motivated account manager or seasoned consultant in the food and beverage sector (or similar sector) looking for an opportunity to work with top sustainability leaders and experts.
• You have 8+ years of business development and sales experience primarily focusing on growing key accounts and executing sales initiatives to bring on new clients in collaboration with sales enablement support.
• You're eager for a fast-paced and diverse role: Developing and implementing sustainability strategies for our key clients, leading account relationships with some of the world´s most influential companies, mentoring other team members on strategy skills, and helping to design the next generation of winning services and solutions.
• You have an understanding of business strategy and/or strategy consulting, complemented with expertise in the corporate sustainability space. You are motivated by the challenges of transforming the world’s largest companies into more sustainable businesses.
• You’re a proactive team player that works quickly, independently and on schedule. Your analytical and organizational skills are top-notch. You communicate effectively and efficiently, both verbally and in writing. You’re experienced at, and passionate, about supporting the growth and development of your colleagues.
• For 5-10 years, you’ve had exposure to and interest in corporate sustainability. You have a successful track record in building and deploying strategies for internal or external clients. You have the ability to anticipate client needs and proactively offer solutions to help the client along their sustainability journey.
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit to be part of a team finding new solutions using this expertise to change the world. 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.

As a Food & Beverage Senior Strategist at Quantis in the US, here’s a preview of what type of work your days will include:

Client consulting sustainability strategy responsibilities:

• Account Management: Lead and grow key stakeholder relationships, while accelerating the transformation of the clients toward sustainability.
• Sales & Business Development: Lead sales processes and business development conversations
• Strategy & Solutions Creation: Lead the implementation of sustainability strategy projects, working with senior sustainability leaders, internally and externally, to develop sustainability strategies, managing their implementation and change pathway.
• Strategic Implementation: Support the shaping and delivery of all Quantis solutions around the strategy, bringing in our expertise on science, metrics, tools, communications and more.
• Training & Mentorship: Lead and collaborate with a team and with Quantis globally; provide mentorship and developmental support to other team members.
• Teamwork: Proactively co-create with our other Quantis team members to strengthen our delivery of strategy-related services. Operate as an effective project team leader.
• Innovation: Support efforts within Quantis’ innovation activities to develop a new generation of smart sustainability strategy solutions.
• Client interface: Confidently and effectively advocate for project / scope / team in face of client demands.

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 failure as a lesson 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.

Some logistics to consider

• Location: Any location in the US. You'll have the possibility to work collaboratively in the Boston office as needed as well as to regularly meet your colleagues on team retreats.
• Start date: As soon as possible
• Ability to travel, approximately 30% of work time for client or internal Quantis work and conferences

Quantis has a distinctive, fluid structure nurtured by our Quantis Spirit and our way of collaborating, that, in combination with our paid time off and other benefits, provides a positive and unique working environment. Salary will be determined based on potential for contribution to the organization’s success. The compensation target for this role ranges from $136,000/year - $144,000/year.

Quantis is where passion meets purpose. Come grow with us and contribute to creating a sustainable future while building a fulfilling career. 

To learn about the Quantis Spirit and what makes us exceptional, check out our “Braver New World” video and Employee Spotlights. 

To learn about our commitment about DEI, please read our statement below. 

QUANTIS DIVERSITY-EQUITY-INCLUSION:  

At Quantis, the principles of DEI have always been an essential part of our identity, our values and our mission. Our commitment is to elevate the voices of all Quantisians to foster an inclusive culture where all employees feel that they belong and are valued. Our goal is to create a workforce that reflects the diversity of all the places where we live and work. This extends to our clients, their clients, and their entire value chain as sustainable thinking and collective representation are integral components of our purpose to transform the way that businesses operate.