About the role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Sustainability Consultant to lead sustainability reporting, analytics and strategy projects for our clients in the food service & food manufacturing industry. This role will sit within the Professional Services team, reporting to the Head of Professional Services.

Your role will include the following key responsibilities:

Leading Sustainability Reporting and Strategy Projects

We are working with a number of large food companies to help them measure, report and manage their carbon emissions and other environmental impacts, including corporate scope 3 reporting, life cycle assessments of food products and recipes, and development of net-zero strategies and transition plans.

You will lead strategic engagements with these clients to help them deliver against their ongoing sustainability commitments, rooted in data, and evidence-based research. For many of our clients, this will go beyond compliance, and will require you to provide expert advice and guidance on how the sustainability data we have should inform and align with their broader sustainability goals, objectives and targets.

You will also lead the delivery of technical data-analysis centric assignments with these clients. This will involve preparing, handling, analysing and drawing insights from their data, to inform key recommendations and shape their strategies, using a suite of standard data analytics packages/techniques and bespoke, internally developed tools.

Leading on Client Engagement

You will be responsible for managing and strengthening client relationships. You will act as the primary point of contact from initial scoping to final delivery, gaining a deep understanding of their sustainability goals and challenges and working collaboratively with stakeholders to tailor strategic and actionable sustainability solutions that align with each client’s unique objectives, and identifying opportunities for future projects.

Managing and developing our team

As a senior consultant, you will be responsible for leading and managing engagement teams, ensuring the successful delivery of sustainability projects. You will provide strategic direction on projects, oversee project timelines, and allocate resources to meet client objectives, bringing in experts from our science and data teams as required. A key aspect of your role will be developing junior staff, fostering their growth through mentoring, coaching, knowledge sharing, and hands-on training (with a particular focus on sustainability reporting requirements and strategy formulation). You will create opportunities for them to take on increasing responsibility, while providing constructive feedback and supporting their professional development.

About Foodsteps

Foodsteps is on a mission to empower the food industry to accelerate its journey to net zero. Our specialised food sustainability platform provides instant access to industry-leading data and insights that food services companies and food manufacturers can trust to accurately measure, reduce and report their environmental impact. With Foodsteps, businesses reduce the costs and risks of their net zero transition, and improve sales as a result.

Our Product

Food systems account for nearly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and are the leading driver of biodiversity loss. In order to avoid the catastrophic consequences from both the climate and ecological crises, we must bring positive change to our food systems—fast.

Foodsteps’ specialised food sustainability platform enables food businesses to accurately measure, reduce and report their environmental impact. With Foodsteps: businesses can automatically calculate Product Footprints in order to understand the carbon, land and water impact of their menus and products; easily generate Scope 3 Assessments of their food and beverage supply chain; and produce detailed Life Cycle Assessments in order to to get a holistic and granular view of a product’s environmental impact. Last but not least, they can leverage our Carbon Labels and FoodStories in order to confidently educate customers and make credible sustainability claims.

In addition to platform subscriptions, we offer a wide range of professional services to clients to assess their food and beverage environmental impact and work alongside them to reduce this.

Must haves

• 6-10 years of experience working in a consulting environment

• The ability to lead client-facing projects independently, including managing relationships with and presenting to senior client stakeholders

• Experience with picking up new concepts, methodologies and tools quickly in a fast-paced environment

• Experience coordinating and leading multi-disciplinary delivery teams

• Experience leading a team of junior staff, and contributing to their continuous professional development through mentorship or coaching

• Passion for the Foodsteps’ mission, working with data, the food industry and a drive for sustainability

• Highly motivated, able to take initiative and be efficient in performing tasks with an eye for detail in the data

• Great communication skills

Strongly Preferred (must have at least two of these)

• Experience conducting carbon reporting assessments for corporate clients to GHG Protocol standard, and familiarity with wider existing and upcoming sustainability standards, such as SBTi (including FLAG), CSRD, etc

• Experience leading sustainability strategy projects, delivering evidence based recommendations on strategic direction, practical interventions, and implementation roadmaps, informed by analysis of sustainability data

• Experience conducting life-cycle assessments to ISO14040 standard, and/or conducting sustainability research in the food industry

• Experience conducting and leading insightful analysis of large datasets, and working with programming languages such as Python, R or SQL

Nice to haves

• Experience working in the food sector

• Line management experience

Salary, Location and Benefits

• £52,700-74,400 salary, and participation in Company Bonus Scheme

• Full range of benefits that Foodsteps offers including 27 paid holiday days, flexible working, volunteering days, and climate perks travel days.

• Welcoming office in Whitechapel, London with lots of snacks and a variety of working spaces.

• Based in the UK, in the office at least monthly for team days, with some flexibility around occasionally heading into the office for other workshops and meetings.