Senior Manager, Sustainability Advisory (Finance)

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Manager, Sustainability Advisory to join our U.S.-based Sustainability Advisory business focused on climate risk assessment and reporting. As Senior Manager, Sustainability Advisory, you will be a key contributor to our regional Sustainability Advisory team in the U.S., serving as project lead and technical expert primarily on decarbonization and net zero strategy and implementation services and supporting also overall Arcadis' sustainability capabilities (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.

Role accountabilities:

As Senior Manager, 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.

• 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

Qualifications & Experience:

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field of study
• Experience in Corporate Real Estate with decarbonization of large real estate portfolio for financial services, asset management or property and investment companies
• Minimum 12-14 years of professional relevant experience, including 6 years of experience in decarbonization management consulting

Desired

• Outstanding communication and people management skills, especially the ability to collate and synthesize data into simple, concise language; and collaboration across geographies
• Experience developing global renewable energy

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $145000 - $217500. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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