Environment Methodology Expert

Company Description

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Our purpose is to guide all companies toward a sustainable world. EcoVadis is the leading provider of business sustainability ratings. Our solutions are backed by an international team of experts and powerful technology. We analyze data and build sustainability scorecards that give companies actionable insights into their environmental, social and ethical risks.

Why apply to EcoVadis? Be a part of the global sustainability change in business. Grow your career. Work with extraordinary people. Feel valued for your contribution.

Learn more about our team and culture on EcoVadis careers page.

Job Description

In a context of social and environmental emergency, one of the greatest challenges of the company today is to provide its ratings allowing companies to reduce their risks, drive improvement and accelerate their positive impact on our planet and society, on a large scale.

We must constantly review and improve our rating methodology to remain aligned with sustainability regulations, market best practices and emerging sustainability topics, and to be able to effectively support rated companies on their journey to improve their sustainability practices.

Mission

Manage the strategic development of the Environment methodology across EcoVadis Solutions (except Carbon), develop our expertise on environmental topics and oversee the delivery of related methodology projects.

The Evaluation Services (EVS) Methodology department is in charge of defining the methodology behind our solutions, in particular our Sustainability Ratings. Our ratings cover four overarching sustainability themes (Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Ethics, Sustainable Procurement), covering a total of twenty-one sustainability criteria. 

The Environment Methodology Expert will be responsible for supervising the research, content development, and delivery of all environment-related methodology projects (except carbon-related projects), which includes continuous enhancements to the methodology and strategic reviews., As such, they will be responsible for developing the department’s expertise on environmental topics and ensuring that our solutions and ratings are aligned with the most recent market developments, concepts and standards in the environmental field.

Responsibilities:

• Manage 1 direct report (Environment Senior Analyst)
• Define the methodology strategy for the Environment theme and oversee the development of relevant methodology initiatives by the Environment team
• Monitor the latest changes in the global landscape through continuous research and market scan on emerging best practices and regulatory changes, including in areas previously unexplored by the EcoVadis methodology, share methodology knowledge and expertise with the rest of the team, and provide recommendations for future direction
• Engage into building strong external relationships, including with our most advanced customers and external experts & thought leaders, to collect feedback on and enrich our methodology on environmental topics
• Represent EcoVadis as the in-house expert on environmental issues (e.g. participation in conferences, creation of specialized articles and various content, building partnerships, networking, …) to present our methodology approach and share findings from our database
• Organize and document the knowledge on the Environmental theme
• Clarify the type of information and documents we expect from rated companies for questionnaire options of the Environment theme 
• Lead methodology projects related to the Environment theme, and ensure alignment with business objectives, strategic priorities and change processes, including by sponsoring projects and providing project management support

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in corporate sustainability with advanced understanding of the main environmental trends (energy, water, biodiversity, waste, circular economy, LCAs etc.) and the evolving landscape.
• Strategic-thinker with an understanding of how emerging trends are shaping the market and how this should be translated in the EcoVadis rating methodology.
• Experienced project manager with the ability to keep multiple and complex projects moving forward concurrently, and to manage project teams to ensure high quality outputs and timely delivery. 
• Demonstrated excellent communication, presentation and public speaking skills, and ability to explain complex concepts in a synthetic way.
• Proactive and self-motivated team player, with the capacity to motivate own team, as well as to engage other teams within the Methodology sub-department as well as in the wider organization (Product Management, Business Technology Support, Solutions Consulting, Marketing departments etc.), and to mediate discussions between impacted stakeholders.

Additional Information

Benefits:

• Support with all the necessary office and IT equipment
• Flexible working hours
• Wellness allowance for mental and physical wellbeing
• Referral bonus policy
• Learning and development 
• Sustainability events and community involvement
• Peer recognition program
• Employee-led resource groups
• Hybrid (4 days in office per month)
• Remote work from abroad policy
• Meals and Transportation Vouchers (Cobee card)
• Dental Benefits 
• Life & Accident Insurance + Private Health Insurance
• Paid employee volunteer day
• Paid moving day (1/year)
• Time off: 1 Community Service Day + 1 Personal Day
• Summer Hours in July and August (36 hours per week)
• Hybrid Monthly Allowance for electricity and Internet

Our hiring team looks forward to reviewing your CV, in English, with a guaranteed response to every application. A new job with purpose awaits you! 

Don’t fit all the criteria but still think you’d be a good candidate? Please apply anyway to give our hiring team the opportunity to assess your skills and to learn more about what you could bring to EcoVadis. We’re interested in hiring from a diverse and skilled talent pool, regardless of professional and educational background.

Can the hiring process be adjusted to suit my needs? Yes. We want everyone going through the hiring process with EcoVadis to feel confident that you are able to demonstrate your full potential. We welcome applications from disabled people, people with long-term health conditions, and neurodiverse candidates. If you need any adjustments, including the provision of interview questions, please let the hiring team know.

Our team’s strength comes from everyone’s uniqueness and is founded upon mutual respect. EcoVadis commits to equity, inclusion and reducing bias in our hiring processes. EcoVadis does not accept any form of discrimination based on color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, parental status, or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique. In your application, we encourage you to remove personal information such as: photographs, marital status, number of children, religion, gender, residential postal code, university graduation date, past medical or parental leave(s) taken, nationality (instead, please state if you are legally eligible to work in the job region/country), university name (instead, please state any degrees obtained and the study major).