Sustainability Consultant, BRAZIL (Responsible Sourcing, Human Rights, Supply Chain, ESG)

Job ID:41915
Location:Brazil - Sao Paulo, Alphaville, Brazil: Rio de Janeiro Remote Based: Brazil
Position Category:Consulting
Position Type:Employee Regular

Business Background

Who are LRQA?

LRQA stands for dedication to clients, market firsts, and deep expertise in risk management. We’ve grown to become a leading global assurance provider, bringing together outstanding expertise in certification, customised assurance, cybersecurity, inspection and training.

While we’re proud of our heritage, it’s who we are today that really matters, because that’s what shapes who we and our clients can become tomorrow. By staying true to our shared values and combining decades of collective experience, we support our clients in building a safer and more sustainable future.

What do we do?

We help our clients negotiate a rapidly changing world, by working with them to manage and mitigate the risks they face. We serve a wide variety of industries, with a core focus on Food & Beverage, Consumer Goods, Transportation & Mobility, Technology & Telco, Construction & Manufacturing, Energy and Renewables and Chemical & Processing.

Our products and services range from independent third-party auditing to certification and training; we also offer consultancy services, real- time assurance technology and data-driven supply chain transformation programs. our innovative end-to- end solutions help our clients shape their own future, rather than letting it shape them.

LRQA currently operates across 51 countries, has more than 2,500 colleagues, generates around £350m in revenue, and supports more than 60,000 clients across a diverse range of sectors and markets.

The next chapter for LRQA

As the preferred assurance partner for our clients, we are relentless in helping them respond to the era of Assurance 4.0.

Our decades of sector expertise in assuring assets and management systems, ensuring product integrity, responsible sourcing, navigating the energy transition and achieving net zero, and strengthening cybersecurity maturity will help them to anticipate, mitigate and manage risk wherever they operate, freeing them to focus on growth.

With solid expertise and heritage in our sector, coupled with well-timed accelerated investment and a leadership team that is fully committed to delivering our vision, LRQA’s next chapter is set to be an exciting, transformational period of growth. We’re well placed to build on everything we’ve done and further our ambitions for the future. At such an exciting time key talent is critical, and this role is a great opportunity to be part of our next chapter.

Role Purpose

LRQA’s Sustainability Consulting team specializes in helping clients to design and implement responsible sourcing programs, human rights due diligence programs and sustainability / ESG strategies in their supply chains.

We are looking for a highly motivated, passionate professional to join our team and support clients to address their most pressing sustainability and supply chain challenges. This role will require an investigative and curious mindset and an individual who can approach social and environmental due diligence and risk management from a strategic, problem-solving angle.

We are looking for individuals who can critically assess situations to identify risks and challenges for our clients as well as develop innovative solutions. This role will be client-facing and require direct engagement with clients’ Sustainability/ESG, Social Compliance, or Procurement teams.

You will work with private-sector clients, many of which are major global and regional companies, spanning a variety of sectors, including consumer goods, retail, food/agriculture, real estate, and finance. You will be part of the Latin America Advisory team and will work with, and learn from, LRQA experts from teams across the globe.

We are looking for entrepreneurial individuals who will be motivated by the opportunity to work in a rapidly growing and successful business at the cutting edge of sustainability and to partner with world-class leaders to take on some of the planet’s most pressing ESG challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Project delivery:
  • Support Senior staff on the delivery of consulting engagements and project management by engaging with clients, conducting research, information analysis and synthesis to address client’s needs. You will be expected to keep projects on track and at a high level of quality.
  • Contribution to written client deliverables: reports, presentations
  • Communication on and presentation of deliverables to clients.
• Product and service development: support on standardization and development of LRQA products across the sustainability and supply chain services, through innovating and enhancing existing products, processes and ways of working to accelerate efficiencies, effectiveness and delivering positive impact projects.
• Business development: support on proposals, networking and profiling of LRQA to help the team to secure new business opportunities with existing and prospective clients
• Reporting to Associate Director / Senior Consultants to account for above responsibilities.

Other

• Role model LRQA behaviours to drive a customer centric, performance orientated, commercially accountable organisational culture.
• Pursue Continuous Professional Development and maintain a high degree of discipline, industry knowledge and awareness. 
• Play an active role to support the regional Advisory team to manage, mentor and support team consultants and associates. Develop team members to build capacity and capability through supporting recruitment, performance management, talent and succession planning, training and development to build and sustain high performers.
• Support addressing of growth-related challenges to deliver our ambitious targets as part of our Advisory strategy and full potential plan.
• Contribute to the implementation of a strategy aligned with the overall regional and Advisory vision to deliver against actionable goals, sales and revenue targets provided to ensure delivery against the performance and growth ambitions.
• Contribute to effective and efficient running of internal operations and ensuring the business is on a solid footing operationally.
• Represent LRQA’s values to cultivate relentless client focus performance-oriented, and commercially accountable organisational culture.
• Positively contribute to creating and maintaining a positive, can-do culture with a particular focus on well-being and supporting colleagues.
• Ensure communication to key stakeholders, foster teamwork and strive to maintain an environment of openness and trust, facilitating problem solving to address obstacles and ensure agreement on resolutions.
• Contribute to the development, publication and promotion of world class Thought Leadership that contributes to our ability to maintain or begin a dialogue with our clients.

Key health & safety responsibilities:

Eliminate or minimize employee exposure to risks by regularly reviewing the health and safety risk register, applying appropriate controls, communicating results of risk assessments, and ensuring health and safety is considered in the planning and execution of all LRQA activities.

Manage your own, and your team’s, compliance with health and safety rules, instructions, systems and legal requirements to ensure employees are suitably trained and adequate resources are available to work safely.

Number of direct reports

No direct reports

Geographic area of impact

[LATAM]

Key stakeholders

Advisory Leadership Regional Team

Technical / Professional Qualifications / Requirements:

• 3-5 years of consulting experience in sustainability and/or responsible sourcing strategy / business and human rights.
• Knowledge of the sustainability business environment and due diligence trends.
• Strong research and writing skills.
• Communication, networking, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Able to work in English and Portuguese; Spanish is a plus.
• Ability to understand and interpret quantitative data.
• Detail-oriented, solutions-oriented, and problem-solver.
• Has and applies emotional intelligence and proven team skills. Takes initiative and can work autonomously and in a fast-paced environment.
• Passionate about social and environmental topics.
• Strong collaboration skills.
• Strong information processing skills: research, critical thinking & problem solving, attention to detail.
• Strong organizational skills: self-motivation, time management, planning, prioritizing, flexibility.
• Continuous learning mindset.

Our Values:

Expertise We value our experience, specialist knowledge, and pioneering history within the industry. But we also never stop looking for ways to learn and improve in the future.

Integrity We always do what’s right, in the right way and continually measure our actions and their outcomes against rigorous criteria – both those of stakeholders and our own.

Ambition We are industry leaders because we combine technology and innovation with the expertise of our people. We help our clients be the best they can be, by being the best we can be.

Vision We support our clients in the present and prepare them for future success, by using our sharp understanding of social, environmental, technological, and commercial changes to work towards a safer, cleaner, more sustainable future.

Togetherness We respect the unique skills, expertise and backgrounds of our people and the inclusive culture they create. We believe teamwork and collaboration – internally and with our clients – are the best way to achieve our mutual goals.

Diversity and Inclusion at LRQA:

We are on a mission to be the place where we all want to work and we are passionate about embracing different perspectives because we understand the value this brings to our business, our clients and each other. We are all about creating a safer and more sustainable future and our inclusive culture is right at the heart of our business.

Together our employees make our communities better and we want you to be part of our diverse team!

LRQA is a leading global assurance provider.  The integrity and expertise we bring to our partnership with clients support their journey to a safer, more secure and more sustainable future. (Group entities).

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