Manager, Climate Risk, Sustainability Advisory

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 102065 - 201756

Posted on: 17 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Manager Climate Riskto join our U.S.-based Sustainability Advisory this role you will help shape the future of sustainability by developing Arcadiss global climate risk offering leading complex client engagements and scaling best-in-class methodologies across regions and sectors. As a trusted advisor youll collaborate with diverse teams and industry leaders to solve some of the worlds most urgent challenges including climate change and the transition to net zero. Youll have the autonomy to take ownership of projects and drive results from day one all while helping to grow Arcadiss decarbonization services across North America. We offer a supportive culture that values integrity professional growth and innovation. If you are passionate about making a measurable difference and thrive in a fast-paced client-focused environment we want to hear from you.

At Arcadis you will have the opportunity to drive transformational change for clients and communities by addressing some of the worlds most critical climate and resilience challenges. As a leading global consultancy we combine deep technical expertise with innovative digital solutions to help organizations understand quantify and manage climate-related physical and transition risks translate climate scenarios into financial outcomes and embed climate into enterprise risk management and strategic decision-making.

In this role you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across Sustainability Advisory Climate Adaptation Resilience Asset Management Engineering and Digital Intelligence. You will help bridge science engineering finance and strategy ensuring that climate risk assessments are technically robust financially defensible and decision-useful for executive and board-level stakeholders.

This hybrid role is located in Washington DC New York City or Chicago. The ideal candidate for this role will be a highly organized self-starter with strong project management and communication skills proven experience delivering climate risk strategy programs to global portfolios and ability to collaborate across internal functions cultures and geographies.

Arcadis is focused on solving the most complex sustainability challenges. As such you will help grow the Sustainability Advisory services in North America reporting to our US Lead for Sustainability Advisory and our Global Technical Director for Climate Risk. You will lead and oversee complex climate risk assessment and reporting engagements for global clients across infrastructure real estate financial services energy transportation consumer goods and industrial sectors.

This role combines:

Technical leadership (methodologies models scenarios financial translation)

Client leadership (executive engagement finance stakeholder buy-in)

Practice building (offer development innovation and growth).

You will work horizontally across Arcadis Global Business Areas (Mobility Places Resilience Intelligence) driving the integration of climate risk analytics with engineering adaptation design asset resilience and digital solutions.

Role accountabilities:

As a Manager in our Sustainability Advisory team you will lead the delivery of climate risk projects across multiple sectors such as real estate retail manufacturing infrastructure technology and transportation. You will serve as the primary point of contact for clients ensuring that all deliverables are accurate timely and client-ready. Your role will include developing and implementing climate risk strategies managing project teams and providing quality assurance for technical analyses. You will also play a key role in mentoring junior staff identifying opportunities to expand client relationships and supporting the development of Arcadiss broader sustainability offering. This position requires strong consulting experience the ability to communicate complex topics clearly and a thorough understanding of the latest sustainability frameworks and standards.

In this role you will serve as a climate risk technical authority and project lead overseeing both physical and transition risk assessments. You will be responsible for conducting climate risk and opportunity assessments quantitative scenario analyses climate transition planning and modeling the financial impacts of climate risk. Your technical leadership will span physical risk assessments using hazard exposure vulnerability and impact frameworks as well as transition risk assessments that incorporate policy market technology and legal risks. You will ensure the application of key scenarios from organizations such as the IEA NGFS and IPCC and will be instrumental in integrating climate risk considerations into enterprise risk management (ERM) frameworks.

Your responsibilities will include leading climate physical risk methodologies such as hazard modeling for a range of climate perils (including flood heat drought wildfire wind and sea level rise) and using depthdamage functions and vulnerability curves to translate hazard exposure into assessments of asset damage business interruption impacts on revenue and costs asset valuation and stranded asset risks. You will develop key financial impact metrics (such as AAL CVaR stress testing and tail risk) ensuring that all climate risk outputs are scientifically credible financially defensible and decision-useful for CFOs CROs and boards.

You will also lead transition risk assessments and climate transition planning applying IEA NGFS and sector-specific pathways and analyzing policy and regulatory risks market and demand shifts technology disruption and carbon pricing exposures. You will develop transition plans aligned with frameworks such as the UK Transition Plan Taskforce ISSB/IFRS S2 CSRD EU Taxonomy and Science-Based Targets initiatives supporting clients in translating these risks into strategic implications capital allocation decisions and portfolio resilience strategies.

Advanced risk management is also a core aspect of the role including the application of inherent vs. residual risk frameworks climate risk prioritization matrices and integration of climate risk into enterprise registries. You will advise on the role of insurance in climate resilienceaddressing insurability constraints premium escalation deductibles coverage gaps and balancing risk transfer with risk reduction strategieswhile ensuring that climate risk findings are aligned with insurance and risk financing strategies.

Collaboration with Arcadis Climate Adaptation and Engineering teams will be essential to translate climate risk results into actionable adaptation pathways. You will inform asset-level resilience investments capital planning and prioritization as well as the selection of nature-based and engineered solutions. The role requires ensuring robust feedback loops between climate risk modeling engineering feasibility and cost-benefit or ROI analyses.

Finally you will lead climate risk reporting engagements ensuring alignment with both voluntary and mandatory frameworks including ISSB/IFRS S1 and S2 CSRD/ESRS EU Taxonomy SEC climate disclosure rules the California Climate Accountability Package and TCFD. This includes designing regulatory-grade methodologies supporting finance stakeholder buy-in for assumptions scenarios and impact calculations and ensuring that climate risk outputs are audit-ready defensible to regulators and suitable for investor disclosure.

Day to day responsibilities include:

Lead complex climate risk assessment and reporting projects. Lead projects from concept to delivery.

Deliver projects on broader sustainability topics. Topics may include GHG accounting ESG strategy sustainability reporting biodiversity and others to meet diverse client needs.

Owning client relationships. Act as a trusted advisor anticipate needs and consistently deliver high-quality client-ready work.

Driving results independently. Take a challenge brainstorm solutions and deliver proposals analyses client communications and deliverables with minimal supervision. Track schedules deliverables budgets and staffing on multiple projects simultaneously.

Coaching and elevating junior team members. Guide project teams give actionable feedback and help colleagues grow.

Ensuring quality and analyses ensure deliverables meet the highest standards and keep projects on time and on budget.

Championing new ways to create value for clients and help build out our decarbonization service offering.

Communicating with complex topics in simple compelling terms to executives and stakeholders including developing executive-level presentations for c-suite level audiences.

Staying current with the latest frameworks and standards. Maintain cutting-edge knowledge of climate science risk modeling and disclosure standards

Collaborating across teams and a matrix organization and work with colleagues worldwide.

Qualifications & Experience:

Bachelors Degree in relevant field of study

Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in sustainability consulting with a focus in climate risk assessment and reporting.

Demonstrated expertise in climate physical risk assessments transition risk assessments scenario analysis and financial impact modeling

Strong consulting client relationship and project management skills and the ability to lead tasks and project teams to successful delivery outstanding communication and people management skills especially the ability to collate and synthesize data into simple concise language; and collaboration across geographies.

Preferred Qualifications:

Advanced degree and/or additional certifications in relevant sustainability disciplines

Deep familiarity with IEA NGFS IPCC scenarios; UK TPT ISSB CSRD SEC SB 261/253

Experience working with: depth-damage functions; CVaR / AAL / stress testing; insurance and risk transfer frameworks

Experience developing global renewable energy procurement strategies to contribute to ambitious climate targets

Why Arcadis

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills-based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career your colleagues your clients your life and the world around you.

Together we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality Diversity Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women minorities people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race creed color religion national origin sex age disability marital status sexual orientation gender identity citizenship status disability veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical dental and vision EAP 401K STD LTD AD&D life insurance paid parental leave reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per salary range for this position is $102065 - $201756.

Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors such as experience education budget internal equity project and location.

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DescriptionArcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many c...