Consultant Senior en Développement Durable dans le Domaine du Sport / Senior Sports Sustainability Consultant

Job Description

As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

WM, a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects. **

I. Job Summary**

Oversee advisory support to help sports and entertainment customers develop comprehensive sustainability strategies and achieve their GHG emissions reductions goals., Collaborate with internal teams and customers to evaluate organizational structure and operations, benchmark environmental impacts, and initiate implementations. Manage holistic assessments and provide reporting on findings. Conduct gap analyses and implement short-term projects. Develop customer sustainability plans, impact inventories, training tools, marketing collateral, stakeholder engagement tools, and formulate and help implement best practices. Execute programs remotely and at customer sites. Maintain pre-established standards for safety and environmental issues. Up to 50% travel may be required. **

II. Essential Duties And Responsibilities**

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned.

• Consult with existing, new, and potential customers to identify goals and solutions, and develop implementation strategies. Engage with customers on their strategic direction for sustainability, including understanding their ambitions and context and advising on targets and potential improvement levers. Translate for customers the sustainability impacts of WM services and solutions into language and frameworks that matter to senior company leaders and investors.
• Oversee full sustainability assessments and program implementations, handling the customer management and guiding Associates and Analysts through the project process.
• Provide support for project proposals including budget development and development of consulting proposals.
• Integrate environmental justice priorities into program development.
• Analyze existing sustainability frameworks and trends to optimize project management as well as WM services offerings.
• Responsible for organizing and interpreting data.
• Research and implement greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategies.
• Assist customers in identifying operational process improvements and implement best practices to improve waste reduction and diversion.
• Maintains current knowledge of external market trends, current sustainability topics & issues, internal sales strategies and operational capabilities.
• Proposes integrated waste management solutions that are compliant with appropriate local, state, and federal regulations.
• Present ideas effectively to both internal teams and customer groups, and deliver presentations suited to the characteristics and needs of the audience.
• Design project schedules, maintain multiple projects at the same time, meet deadlines and delivery quality deliverables. Analyze data sets, baseline data, and assessment findings to identify improvement opportunities. Prepare final reports and presentations and deliver conclusions to the customer in a manner that fits their needs and in a timely fashion.
• Learn and maintain knowledge of what materials are generally accepted for recycling at Material Recycling Facilities (MRFs) and as source-segregated streams for commodity materials and organic waste. Also be familiar with waste diversion solutions for materials such as household hazardous waste, universal waste, e-waste, etc.
• Conduct research as needed to prepare for customer strategy sessions, design strategy session agendas, and assist in facilitating customer sessions.
• Maintains communications and a close working relationship with key WM Market Area personnel.
• Create scopes of work for subcontractors and customers as needed.
• Ensure compliance with client and government regulations when performing assessments, implementing programs, and managing other on-site functions.
• Promote culture of safety to perform assigned duties and help ensure the safety of any project participants to comply with safety, environmental, federal, state, and local regulations.

III. Supervisory Responsibilities

The highest level of supervisory skills that may be required in this job is the management of supervisory employees. This includes:

• Direct management of approximately 0 to 10 full-time employees

IV. Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job. **

Education and Experience** - Education: Bachelor’s Degree (accredited) in Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Sustainability, Architectural Design, Community Planning or Business or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four (4) years of relevant work experience. - Experience: Five (5) years of relevant work experience in project/business management. Environmental or services industry experience is required (in addition to education requirement). - Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements - TRUE Advisor and/or LEED Green Associate preferred - Knowledge of circular economy, sustainable materials management (SMM), and zero waste design concepts and principles strongly preferred - Experience researching life cycle assessment and embedded carbon research strongly preferred - Experience with conducting a greenhouse gas inventory and executing mitigation initiatives, organizational advisory services, and materials management strongly preferred - Experience with intersectional environmental and environmental justice programs preferred - Experience with sustainability risk and management frameworks, sport-specific or otherwise preferred - Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required - Must be bilingual in Canadian French and English (spoken and written) - Experience managing multiple employees as well as customers and/or projects simultaneously - Experience with implementing GHG emissions reduction initiatives and researching mitigation technology preferred - Experience working in sports venues and event operations preferred - Experience with the development of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs preferred - Computer and tech savvy – must be adaptable to new programs and systems - High proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel - Comfortable with project travel up to two weeks at a time - Work Environment Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. - Required to use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, etc) most of the work day; - Required to exert physical effort in handling objects less than 30 pounds rarely; - Required to be exposed to physical occupational risks (such as cuts, burns, exposure to toxic chemicals, etc) rarely; - Required to be exposed to physical environment which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements rarely; - Normal setting for this job is: office setting. - Must be available to work standard business hours, as well as be available to work non-standard hours in case of emergency (natural disasters, power outages, etc.) May need to attend afterhours calls with the offshore team.

Benefits

At WM, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short-Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on RRSP, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.

If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply." **

About Us**

ABOUT WM

WM ( WM.com ) is North America’s largest comprehensive waste management environmental solutions provider. Previously known as Waste Management and based in Houston, Texas, WM is driven by commitments to put people first and achieve success with integrity. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides collection, recycling and disposal services to millions of residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. With innovative infrastructure and capabilities in recycling, organics and renewable energy, WM provides environmental solutions to and collaborates with its customers in helping them achieve their sustainability goals. WM has the largest disposal network and collection fleet in North America, is the largest recycler of post-consumer materials and is the leader in beneficial reuse of landfill gas, with a growing network of renewable natural gas plants and the most gas-to-electricity plants in North America. WM’s fleet includes nearly 11,000 natural gas trucks – the largest heavy-duty natural gas truck fleet of its kind in North America – where more than half are fueled by renewable natural gas. To learn more about WM and the company’s sustainability progress and solutions, visit Sustainability.WM.com . **

Organization**

What is the value of a WM job? At WM we know that the value of a WM job is more than a paycheck. It’s a way to create opportunities for you and your family. This is why we are constantly working to make WM a great place to work and grow a career. We Are WM is what defines the perks of being in the WM family – from benefits, to resources and engagement activities.

We are People First. We are Committed to Your Growth. We Are Investing in You. We are a Family. We are Stable. We are Always Working for a Sustainable Tomorrow.