Impact Senior Manager - Climate & Sustainability
WHAT YOULL DO
As the Global Impact Senior Manager for C&S you will help BCG achieve its goal of being the most positively impactful company in the world. As part of our Climate & Sustainability agenda, we have made bold commitments to investing in and working with clients on their sustainability agenda. While addressing our own footprint is critical, our pathway to achieve planetary-scale impact leads through our clients, enabling them to reduce their footprint, boldly and quickly. This implies engaging with our clients, incl. big emitters/polluters to set them on a path to Net Zero / Nature Positive. To take us to the next level on these commitments, we want to increase our ability to both measure and express the planetary impact our C&S work enables us to achieve, as well as understanding the impact related to the overall portfolio of work we perform with our clients. This role will be a key accelerator of those efforts. This role will imply working with a diverse set of stakeholders, focused on 4 key facets: * Quantify impact of our C&S work:
Own development of impact metrics on BCGs C&S work, across both carbon and other planetary boundaries (incl. water, waste, circularity, biodiversity etc.) - evolving our existing framework on carbon and developing this for non-carbon metrics
Set up a (semi-)automated data collection system to enable scaling of impact tracking across all 1000+ C&S cases happening every year
Develop holistic measures of planetary impact across the diversity of work we do, navigating the complex realities of impact measurement across different timelines, emission scopes, levels of execution certainty, etc.
Work with our global tech team to develop a suitable and safe solution, as much as possible linked in with existing systems to ensure smooth and seamless operation
Develop inspiring (yet robust!) impact stories - from climate to broader planetary impact:
Curate a set of simple and telling stories/outputs that inspire our employees, recruits and clients through engaging BCG project teams across different geographies and industries to identify top impact stories and measurements
Help teams generate outputs, iterate with senior case and PA leadership. Working with our Marketing and References team as applicable to develop case studies/ storylines we can share internally and externally
Serve as thought partner to the teams on how to express the impact achieved, aligned with global best practices and accounting for the specificity of BCG as a consultant, not a decision maker
Engage Global leadership and functions:
Prepare discussions with senior BCG leadership forums, incl. our global Annual Sustainability Report
Collaborate with the Social Impact PA on an aligned narrative across planetary and societal impact
Engage BCGs legal team and External communications team to ensure external statements do not create adverse risks for BCG, balancing need for impactful external statements with reputational/ greenwashing risks
Support global Compliance teams annual review of climate policies, incl. concerning work with Big Emitters
Act as the go-to-expert on C&S Impact:
Act as the key center of excellence to other parties at BCG working on external/internal impact statements (e.g. CEO office, SI PA, Marketing and Comms, etc.) & for colleagues in adjacent PA functions (e.g. global and local marketing, global internal sustainability team, investment and giveback team, etc.)
YOURE GOOD AT
Self-starting with a strong worth ethic, entrepreneurial drive to work autonomously and in a multinational team
Earning the respect of a very senior cohort, all Managing Directors & Partners, that are remotely located, even through only short interactions
Operating effectively in a virtual matrix organization with the ability to prioritize and make decisions, managing ambiguity with a high level of comfort
Complex project management with the ability to multi-task and drive advanced strategic analysis (beyond data) and leverage results for impact
Leading others, including senior business leaders in clarifying problems and developing solutions by building cross-topic partnerships - building consensus, persuading and influencing.
Motivating others to deliver highest standards, providing direction, mentoring and coaching.
YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)
8-10 years of relevant experience, incl. work in professional services industry at a Project Leader or comparable client-facing level role with proven consulting skills acquired
Masters degree preferred
Strong interest in Climate and Sustainability and Impact measurement, prior experience a clear plus
Strong analytical & data skills, across both qualitative and quantitative data sets
Ability to manage and drive area of accountabilities, contributing to higher level agenda setting
Ability to lead more complex, broader sub functional teams or projects fully independently and provide direction to others
Ability to resolve complex issues and non-defined problems autonomously, with full business acumen
Strong interpersonal skills, credibility
Strong storytelling & written communication skills, i.e. able to translate data into insights and distilling strong & engaging stories from that
Ability to influence senior members of the topic and beyond
Ability to respect sensitive client, BCG, and people related information as personal and confidential
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Advanced knowledge in Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel
YOULL WORK WITH
You will collaborate closely with a broad set of stakeholders across BCG:
In the C&S PA: our investments and giveback team, our marketing team and product managers as well as our virtual systems
With other PAs: aligning with our sister PA SI on overall impact statements, and with C&S nodes across all of BCGs PAs, as well as the PAL Chairs and their respective teams
With BCG global functions: our Internal Sustainability team, our global Risk and Legal teams, Recruiting, as well as global Marketing and External Communications functions
With the office of the CEO (e.g. on impact statements at internal and external events and platforms)
Across BCG working with our various client-serving teams who are generating the impact in their day-to-day work.
This role will closely work with our Strategy & Investments Director, Sander Van Damme, with a dotted reporting line directly to the C&S PAL, with visibility of outcomes up to BCGs most senior leadership, incl. through providing updates/discussion documents to BCGs Executive Leadership
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Practice Area Management & Operations team members keep BCGs industry and functional practice areas operating responsively and efficiently. As a member of this team, you will contribute directly to the success of our business through a number of roles, including content development, process management, marketing, meeting and conference management, and internal/external communications. Climate & Sustainability (C&S) is a new functional Practice Area (PA) within BCG and one of its two "CEO Moonshots". The firms leadership has made this new business area a priority for growth, focused on delivering impact and accelerating the path to a Net Zero and Nature-Positive world.
Boston Consulting Group
Fecha de publicación: 17/11/2023
