Sustainability Solution Consultant Intern

  • Full-time

Company Description

EcoVadis is the leading provider of business sustainability ratings. Our solutions are backed by powerful technology and an international team of experts. EcoVadis’ sustainability scorecards provide companies with actionable insight into their environmental, social and ethical risks.

EcoVadis offers an exciting opportunity to grow your career while positively impacting the sustainability practices of companies around the world.

Learn more about our team and culture on ecovadis.com/careers.

Ask your questions directly to our employees on the insiders platform.

Job Description

The Solution Consulting team’s mission is to enable action from insight. We are responsible for ensuring customers understand the value and practical application of EcoVadis solutions and services, so that they can progress on their sustainable procurement journey.

A Solution Consultant at EcoVadis acts as a trusted advisor to our customers along this journey. The Solution Consultant function provides sustainability knowledge and solution expertise throughout the sales cycle and full customer relationship by engaging customers in multiple ways, including understanding their needs and requirements and aligning them with the EcoVadis solution suite, developing proof of concepts, demonstrating solution capabilities, providing subject matter expertise during prospect and customer calls and specifying deliverables when providing additional services that support solution implementation.

This transversal role is pivotal to the sales process and customer experience, requiring coordination with multiple colleagues across various teams, including Sales Executives, Account Managers, Sustainability Analysts, Marketing, IT and Solution teams.

You will possess a passion for critical thinking about sustainability and on a journey to have deep knowledge of sustainability regulations, particularly laws pertaining to supply chain due diligence and sustainability reporting. You will be passionate about EcoVadis’ mission and eager to learn in detail how EcoVadis solutions and services support companies in navigating the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape.

 

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

  • Help coordinate and maintain ongoing Sectors knowledge base project on sustainability, sustainable procurement, regulations and solutions implementation  
  • Help coordinate and maintain ongoing Standards and frameworks knowledge base project
  • Ensure that the entire Solution Consulting team is kept up-to-speed on both of the projects to be able to support frontline team 
  • Proactively communicate on project progress to the different stakeholders (Sales, Customer Success, Marketing teams, etc.)
  • Prepare high quality presentations and answer prospects’ and customers’ questions if related to those 2 projects (meetings, tenders/questionnaires) 
  • Help Facilitate and create the material for  effective trainings to frontline teams
  • Help organize the feedback and testing cycles when implementing the projects 

 

Qualifications and Experience Required

  • Recently graduated or currently enrolled in a Bachelor's Degree or Master’s Degree program (Sustainability or Business)
  • Relevant experience gained in a previous internship or work experience would be beneficial
  • Critical reasoning skills in order to identify problems and provide solutions quickly
  • Analytical, organized, detail oriented, multitasking, and disciplined. Proven fast learners, self-motivated
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English as well as presentation skills are key. Additional language skills are a significant plus.
  • Ability to effectively work within a team and to collaborate is required
  • Adaptability, open minded, curious and enthusiastic.

Additional Information

Are you interested? Please apply directly online by clicking on the link below.

In return for your expertise and energy, we offer challenge, opportunities, a salary aligned with experience and a casual environment.

For more information about EcoVadis please visit our site:

www.ecovadis.com

Everyone at EcoVadis contributes to a culture of trust, respect and empowerment. Our growing team in ... is full of talented professionals from various fields who all share a desire to change the world. 

We offer competitive salaries and support personal growth from day one with extensive onboarding, mentoring and a brand new e-learning platform bursting with courses and modules so you can learn new skills and fine-tune old ones. 


Our team enjoys the benefits of flexible working. Some of us work from home and some prefer to work from our easily accessible (metro, tram, bus, bike, suburban train) office in Paris.

Our hiring team looks forward to reviewing your CV, in English, with a guaranteed response to every application. A new job with purpose awaits you!

Don’t fit all the criteria but still think you’d be a good candidate? Please apply anyway to give our hiring team the opportunity to assess your skills and to learn more about what you could bring to EcoVadis. We’re interested in hiring capable people, regardless of professional and educational background.

Can the hiring process be adjusted to suit my needs? Yes. We want everyone going through the hiring process with EcoVadis to feel confident that you are able to demonstrate your full potential. We welcome applications from disabled people, people with long-term health conditions, and neurodiverse candidates. If you need any adjustments, including the provision of interview questions, please let the hiring team know.

Our team’s strength comes from everyone’s uniqueness and is founded upon mutual respect. EcoVadis commits to equity, inclusion and reducing bias in our hiring processes. EcoVadis does not accept any form of discrimination based on color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, parental status, or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique. In your application, we encourage you to remove personal information such as: photographs, marital status, number of children, religion, gender, residential postal code, university graduation date, past medical or parental leave(s) taken, nationality (instead, please state if you are legally eligible to work in the job region/country), university name (instead, please state any degrees obtained and the study major).

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