Sustainability Manager, Food and Beverage

The Role

As a Sustainability Manager focusing on client relationships, you’ll lead client engagements, manage major accounts and complex projects within the Food & Beverage sector. You’ll play a key role in growing business by cultivating strategic partnerships, identifying new opportunities, securing new business and co-creating solutions aligned with client needs. You will contribute significantly to the company’s revenue growth and strengthen our market presence in the sector.

You’ll craft and implement account strategies that reflect client priorities and sustainability goals, working closely with internal experts to ensure quality and consistency across delivery. You’ll collaborate with experienced consultants, and junior colleagues to deliver impactful work — primarily within your sector, while occasionally contributing to projects across other areas. In doing so, you’ll continue building your consulting and relationship management skills in a collaborative, purpose-driven environment.

You’ll also mentor junior colleagues and may progressively move into a people management role to support their growth and development.

Why You'll Love Quantis

Quantis, a BCG company, is a leading sustainability consultancy tackling the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. For nearly two decades, our expert team has partnered with organizations across the globe to transform industries and shape an economy that thrives in harmony with nature. We guide companies from business as usual to business at its best by uniting the latest science with strategic insights, helping them reduce impacts, implement solutions, and operate within planetary boundaries.

United by a common purpose, our 250+ professionals embody a unique, collaborative culture that we call the Quantis Spirit. We are innovative. We are impact-oriented. We are science-driven. We are Quantis.

Learn more about Quantis and our mission.

Does This Describe You and Your Next Role? 

• You’re motivated to put your strategy development, client relationship development and consulting skills to work towards our mission of building a sustainable future. 

• You’re an experienced and motivated account manager or consultant in the food and agriculture sector (or similar sector) looking for an opportunity to work with top sustainability leaders and experts. 

• Over 7 years of experience driving new client acquisition alongside 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 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 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 and 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. 

Client Consulting Sustainability Strategy Responsibilities

• Account Management: Leading and growing key stakeholder relationships, while accelerating the transformation of the clients toward sustainability. 

• Sales & Business Development: Leading sales processes and business development conversations 

• Strategy & Solutions Creation: Leading the implementation of sustainability strategy projects, working with senior sustainability leaders to develop their sustainability strategies, managing their implementation and change pathway. 

• Strategic Implementation: Supporting the shaping and delivery of all Quantis solutions around the strategy, bringing in our expertise on science, metrics, tools, communications and more. 

• Training & Mentorship: Leading and/or collaborating with a team and with Quantis globally; providing mentorship and developmental support to other team members. 

• Teamwork: Collaborating with our other Quantis team members to strengthen our delivery of strategy-related services. 

• Innovation: Supporting efforts within Quantis’ innovation activities to develop a new generation of smart sustainability strategy solutions. 
  

When You Might Be Ready For The Next Step?

As you develop and manage projects, you’ll be ready to lead large teams to deliver complex projects and to own senior client relationships, being the primary contact and trusted advisor for clients. Your next step will be Sustainability Principal, where you’ll drive business development at a strategic level across your sector.

Some Logistics To Consider 

• Location: Chicago, Boston, Denver, or New York (Hybrid Schedule)
• The compensation target for this role ranges from $126,000/year-$132,400/year. 
• Start date: As soon as possible 
• Punctual collaboration with other Quantis branches via web-conference
• Ability to travel, approximately 30% of work time for client or internal Quantis work and conferences 

Unlocking the Potential of All Quantisians

At Quantis, Unlocking Potential means empowering our employees to thrive, enabling them to drive our mission and manifesto forward—creating meaningful impact for people and the planet. We aim to achieve this by nurturing a culture rooted in collective action, and shared purpose, where diversity is cherished, inclusion is lived, mental wellbeing is supported, and opportunities are open to all. 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.This is how we commit to our people, live our manifesto, and shape a sustainable future - together.