Sector Expert (Agriculture & LCA)

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 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.

Goals:

• Work in the FARM & Chem Sustainability Consulting Team and interact with other teams such as the strategy consulting team and the content team.
• Achieve FARM & CHEM team revenue expectations and contribute to achieving global sustainability consulting revenue and sales targets.
• Reach your personal annual utilization (for orientation):
  • Internal: 15 %
  • Sector Expertise and Thought Leadership: 45 %
  • Quality assurance and project support: 40 %

• Sector Expertise and Thought Leadership
  • Provide internal guidance to the consulting team and demonstrate external thought leadership.
  • Develop, maintain and pro-actively share appropriate sector knowledge with the global consulting and business development organization.
  • Pro-actively support the Food, Agriculture and Renewable Materials (FARM) team members in reaching team goals.
  • Support projects from other teams across Product and Corporate Sustainability by providing FARM expert LCA know-how and guidance.
  • Support standardization, workflow improvement and documentation to enhance delivery efficiency in the FARM sector.
  • Develop and maintain standardized data collection (and validation) sheets.
  • Develop and maintain a generic Agricultural model (for internal and external use).
  • Develop and maintain an agriculture datasets proxy list (LCA FE-> database extension and development), if appropriate.
  • Develop and maintain tools to create proxies.
  • Pro-actively research existing and new technical topics of the FARM industry relevant for agriculture sustainability projects.
  • Pro-actively engage with relevant external stakeholders and bodies such as the European Union, industry associations, and market drivers regarding standardization, methodology development, and thought leadership.
  • Identify new sales opportunities in your sector. Support colleagues from business development in drafting proposals and Statements of Work (SOW).
  • Represent Sphera in client contact with seniority.
  • Engage with customers, typically at the management level. Build a trust relationship with clients, identify client challenges, and propose solutions. Develop high-level business relations.
  • Generate new business ideas.
  • Create/develop marketing activities and support the Go-to-Market strategy developments in your domain/sector. Inform marketing about any conference, event, etc. attendance.
  • Demonstrate thought leadership in the agricultural sector through presentations, blogs, publications of studies, whitepapers, webinars, etc. on our homepage, at conferences, and in journals or by posting on LinkedIn.
  • Submit your timesheets on a weekly basis in OpenAir.
  • Plan/Adapt your vacation planning once a month in OpenAir. Monitor your project status regularly (e.g. resource schedule, budget, profitability, etc.) and plan/adapt your projects once a month.

• Quality Assurance and Project Support
  • Be responsible for quality assurance according to Sphera's Quality Assurance processes.
  • Ensure all deliverables are QA-checked.
  • Conduct and organize QA of models and deliverables of FARM projects or for projects in a certain region.
  • Pro-actively support the development and maintenance of Sphera's QA guidelines according to the latest methodology standards.
  • Pro-actively research relevant QA topics and provide internal guidance and external thought leadership where applicable.
  • Pro-actively engage with relevant external stakeholders and bodies (such as critical reviewers, EPD Program Operators) regarding QA.
  • Support organizing meetings/trainings for QA experts and organize at least one yearly QA-training for consultants.
  • Support the QA Director on customer and supplier requests regarding quality topics.
  • Manage audits and trainings in the company.
  • Develop and maintain standardized checklists and guidance documents for QA.
  • Support developing, maintaining and pro-actively sharing with the global consulting organization and the content team appropriate QA domain knowledge.

• Knowledge & Skills
  • Strong MS Office (Excel/Word, PPT) skills.
  • Expert user of Sphera software.
  • Strong written and oral presentation skills.

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