Senior Sustainability Consultant

~ For more than 15 years, Pure Strategies has helped clients set meaningful goals, develop effective strategies and implement proactive changes to products and supply chains. Our clients appreciate the technical depth, tailored approach, and business value we bring to our consulting work. ~  

Position Overview  

Pure Strategies seeks a
Senior Sustainability Consultant to be part of our
strategic and technical
consulting services team helping retailers, brands, and
manufacturing firms implement
sustainability into corporate strategy,
product
and supply business processes.  

The Senior Consultant will assist with
evaluation of safer chemicals
and materials, modeling of  product and
manufacturing processes, and other evidence-driven sustainability analyses.

The ideal candidate will have a proven
track record of developing and executing leading
corporate sustainability programs
and experience in sustainable
chemistry. 

Responsibilities   

• Work
  with clients on a variety of corporate, product, and supply chain issues
  including but not limited to analyzing impacts, developing strategies, and building tools
  aimed at improving the sustainabilty performance of products, business units and entire firms.
• Contribute to corporate sustainablity chemistry
  projects for clients
  and technical expertise in the company
  including chemical alternatives analysis, chemical hazard profiling, market
  and regulatory trends analysis, and formulation/processing optimization.
• Manage multiple projects and coordinate
  work
  efforts
  of other
  team members.
• Develop and write project proposals, with
  budget, staffing, timing, and task
  planning.
• Present and write
  reports
  of work
  for clients with
  potential for client account. 

Management
responsiblities: 

• Represent Pure Strategies
  at conferences, seminars,
  and workshops. 

Qualifications  

Requirements: 

• Undergraduate degree
  in chemistry, chemical
  engineering,
  or a related field.
• Master's degree
  in an engineering, science,
  or business.
• Ten years
  of relevant
  experience
  in a corporate role
  or in a consulting advisory
  role.
• Expertise
  in chemical and product formulation/material composition technical topics including chemical
  alternatives analysis and hazard characterization.
• Experience with
  corporate business
  processes including product design, manufacturing, supply chain management,
  marketing, and business strategy.
• Strong
  knowledge
  of corporate sustainability programs and the
  issues facing the leaders in this space.
• Knowledge of environmental
  regulatory and quality requirements
  related
  to product chemical/material
  safety and sustainability.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
  and present in management, environmental, technical and other forums.
• Outstanding project management skills
  and careful attention to detail.
• Experience managing multiple
  projects while meeting
  both time and budget commitments.
• Ability to work independently and excellent team building, problem solving, written and presentation skills.
• Strong aptitude for critical, qualitative, and
  analytical thinking.

Preferred additional skills and characteristics: 

• Proficiency in life cycle thinking
  and approaches. 
• Experience with sustainable chemistry tools and models such as GreenScreen, SciVera or GreenWercs (or other),
  and EPI Suite.
• Experience in consumer product
  manufacturing and product development.
• Highly skilled in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and/or Access.