Senior Consultant Strategy & Operations Sustainability

About the company

In addition to our work for clients, we make plenty of room for connecting with one another. We organize an annual off-site with an overnight stay and winter sports via KPMG. We also come together throughout the year for Christmas dinners and activities outside of work, such as padel. We believe it is important to build a close bond within our team. Therefore, we make room for personal attention and involvement, even outside of work.

Your tasks

Company Description

• Advising clients on sustainability strategies and transition plans and supporting them in translating these into concrete objectives, roadmaps, and implementation.
• Identifying and prioritizing sustainability risks, opportunities, impacts, and dependencies within the organization and value chain.
• Contributing specialist knowledge on one or more themes, such as climate, energy, biodiversity and nature, human rights, circular economy, or sustainable supply chains.
• Advising clients on relevant sustainability laws and regulations, including the CSRD and specific ESRS’en, CSDDD, EUDR, ESPR, and other relevant regulations.
• Independently performing and managing qualitative and quantitative analyses.
• Independently managing workstreams and monitoring the quality, progress, and planning of projects.
• Preparing and facilitating interviews, workshops, client meetings, and steering committees.
• Drafting clear and persuasive analyses, advice, reports, and presentations for clients and other stakeholders.
• Guiding junior consultant colleagues and contributing to their substantive and professional development.
• Contributing to the development of propositions, client relationships, and commercial opportunities within the sustainability team.

Job Description As a Senior Consultant Sustainability, you help organizations navigate the complex and rapidly changing landscape of sustainability issues. You advise clients, perform qualitative and quantitative analyses, and take responsibility for independent workstreams within various assignments. You will have the opportunity to work on diverse sustainability themes such as climate, energy transition, and biodiversity, but also, for example, circular economy, human rights, and sustainable procurement.

Additionally, you help clients apply developments in sustainability laws and regulations and international frameworks to their strategy and business operations. You oversee the connection between these developments and support organizations in translating new requirements into concrete priorities, policies, processes, and actions. In doing so, you look beyond compliance alone and help clients use regulation as a starting point for strategic choices.

You combine broad knowledge of sustainability with specific expertise in one or more themes. You bring structure to complex issues and translate analyses and developments into clear advice and concrete courses of action for clients. Depending on the assignment, you also support organizations in developing and implementing strategies, roadmaps, and transition plans.

Requirements

• A completed (technical) WO-master's degree in a relevant field.
• At least three years of relevant work experience within consultancy, the corporate sector, the public sector, or a knowledge institution.
• Demonstrable expertise in one or more sustainability themes in relation to strategy and business operations, for example climate, energy, biodiversity.
• Knowledge of relevant European sustainability laws and regulations under the Green Deal, relevant methods, and international frameworks such as SBTI, GHG-protocol, or TNFD and LEAP.
• Experience with developing or implementing sustainability strategies, programs, roadmaps, or transition plans.
• Experience with client contact and independently organizing, executing, and managing workstreams within projects.
• Strong conceptual thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills, both quantitative and qualitative.
• The ability to provide substantive guidance to junior colleagues and take responsibility for the quality of their work.
• A proactive, entrepreneurial, and result-oriented work attitude, where you actively seek connection with colleagues within the organization, identify opportunities for new assignments, and look ahead to future client questions and commercial possibilities.
• Excellent command of English. Additionally, Dutch is important for this position. You either already master the language or are willing to learn it further, so that you can eventually work with clients in Dutch as well.

What we offer

• Gross monthly salary between € 3,965 and € 5,050 depending on your work experience, variable performance bonus, a fixed expense allowance, and a fixed home-working allowance per worked day.
• 30 vacation days (on a full-time basis) and the possibility to buy more days or sell your vacation days.
• At KPMG we work hybrid, so a combination of working from home, at the client, and at the office.
• A fully equipped home workspace.
• A lease car with NS business card or a mobility scheme.
• A laptop and iPhone.
• An extensive range of training and education that contributes to your professional and personal development.
• Diversity networks regarding pride, gender, ability, cultural diversity, and generations that regularly organize various activities to celebrate difference!
• Attention to vitality! Exercising at the office in Amstelveen or a discount at a gym near you, as well as access to coaching, health, and vitality programs.
• ‘Together’ is one of our core values. Therefore, you can count on various social activities such as team outings, drinks, and events together with your colleagues.