LCA Consultant (Chemicals)

Sphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enables companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety and sustainability. Our mission is to create a safer, more sustainable and productive world.

Sphera is a portfolio company of Blackstone, a U.S.-based alternative asset investment company that focuses on private equity, technology and innovation, and more. Blackstone businesses succeed through strong partnerships, a personalized approach and a commitment to exceptional performance with uncompromising integrity. Sphera and Blackstone are leaders in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) space.

We are guided by our core values of Customer Centricity, Accountability, Bias to Action, Innovation, and Collaboration. These values help us recruit the right talent to join our rapidly expanding team of around the globe. It is important to us that each and every Spherion is not only eager to challenge themselves and knows how to get work done but is an awesome addition to our company culture.

We are seeking a talented, motivated and passionate environmental sustainability individual to join our Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) team. The primary function of this role is to conduct and manage projects on a variety of challenging assignments related to environmental Life Cycle Assessment modelling and reporting.  
 

What you will do 

• You will help our clients create more sustainable products and operate more sustainably! The focus of your work will be to assist clients with product and corporate sustainability measurement and reporting. This may take the form of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) using our GaBi software, preparing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) based results, and assisting with other sustainability-oriented projects.
• Deliver consulting projects in product sustainability, such as LCA projects (incl. research, analyses, reports, presentations, etc.)
• Deliver projects in the agreed time, duration, scope, and quality. Deliver profitable project tasks
• Manage some consulting projects in your domain and/or sector and collaborate with other domains / sectors were necessary. Strictly follow the existing QM processes incl. project closure
• Manage small to medium sized consulting projects
• Contribute to achieve the annual sustainability consulting targets in terms of revenue, bookings, and utilization
• Seek collaboration with the project team and actively ask for / provide feedback
• Gather appropriate domain knowledge in LCA, and/or sector knowledge in Chemicals and Consumer Goods
• Use own judgment to prioritize time and understand capacity situation with support of supervisor / project manager
• Submit your timesheets on a weekly basis
• Plan/Adapt your vacation planning once a month. Monitor your project status regularly (e.g. resource schedule, budget, profitability, etc.) and plan/adapt your projects once a month
• Maintain quality assurance according to Sphera's quality management processes and for the project manager role: Be responsible for its application. Ensure all deliverables are quality assured
• Appropriately represent Sphera in client contact
• Engage with customer
• Manage any customer satisfaction issue according to Sphera's QA process
• Identify new sales opportunities in your daily work and share with the colleagues from business development
• Inform marketing about any conference, event, etc. attendance
• Maintain Sphera’s knowledge management and provide project references (description) on closed projects and a project reference slide
• Support thought leadership in the Chemical Industry through presentations, blogs, publications of studies, whitepapers, webinars etc. on our homepage, at conferences, and journals or by posting e.g., on LinkedIn, etc.

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Sphera is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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