Senior Sustainability Strategist – Pharma & Life Sciences

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 accounts manager or seasoned consultant in the healthcare and life sciences sector looking for an opportunity to work with top sustainability leaders and experts.
• You have 10+ 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 major clients in healthcare and life sciences, 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, ideally 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.
• You communicate effectively and efficiently in fluent English. German and/or Swiss German will be considered as a strong asset.
• You’ve had exposure to and/or strong 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 SENIOR SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGIST, 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.
• Innovation: Support efforts within Quantis’ innovation activities to develop a new generation of smart sustainability strategy solutions.

SOME OTHER DETAILS TO CONSIDER:

• Location: Lausanne or Zurich, Switzerland
• Start date: ASAP
• Regular collaboration with other Quantis branches (Lausanne, Zurich, Boston, Paris, Berlin and Milan) via web-conferences

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