Sustainability Expert

QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant undergraduate degree; relevant graduate degree a plus
• 7 years of relevant industry or consulting experience with depth of expertise in one or more of the areas listed above
• 1 years of experience managing teams or projects
• Strong conceptual problem solving and quantitative reasoning skills
• Strong business acumen and understanding of basic finance; analytical modelling a plus
• Ability to interpret data and effectively communicate the results to team members and clients
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team and create an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organization
• Experience deploying multi-billion-dollar capital projects in clean technology a plus
• Experience driving change programs in major corporations a plus
• Investor experience in clean technologies a plus

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITHYou’ll join a team of McKinsey Sustainability experts based in offices across North America. McKinsey aims to be the destination of choice for the top sustainability and climate talent in the world.You’ll support our mission to be the preeminent impact partner and advisor for our clients on sustainability and ESG, driving change from the board room to the engine room. WHAT YOU'LL DOYou’ll be instrumental in supporting leading organizations around the world achieve their sustainability and decarbonization goals. In this role, you’ll dedicate part of your time to supporting our client service, and part of your time to building our knowledge and capabilities in a particular domain. For client service, you will be pulled in by teams due to your well-defined knowledge expertise/spike, tailor your expertise to each specific client situation, and use that expertise to develop insights and recommendations. For knowledge and capability building, you’ll maintain and renew expertise and be recognized by clients and colleagues for it, you’ll expand the firm’s expertise in at least one area and contribute to knowledge development initiatives that advance the Firm’s capabilities, and you’ll drive the firm’s innovation and capability building agenda on your dedicated topic(s). You will also actively apprentice in and support client development – e.g., supporting proposals and contributing to white papers. You’ll have client impact in one or more of the following areas including Environmental, Social, and Governance improvements; Climate risk assessment; Portfolio strategy for decarbonization; Green business building; Net Zero; Environmental Justice; Decarbonization of a corporate operations (Scope 1 and 2 emissions); Decarbonization of a corporate supply chains (Scope 3 emissions); Designing products for sustainability (including circular economy); Carbon measurement, tracking and tracing; Investor portfolio alignment for net zero.You’ll help drive the adoption of the core technologies we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero, including Renewables; Hydrogen; Batteries/ energy storage; EVs, heat pumps and broader electrification; Carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS), including direct air capture; Nature-based solutions; and Biofuels.