Sustainability Consultant - Japan

仕事内容:

ABOUT UNRAVEL CARBON

Unravel Carbon is an Agentic AI enterprise software for calculating, tracking and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with a focus on helping companies decarbonise and develop strong climate change strategies. Our measurement platform has a core engine used to automate the calculation of Scope 3 emissions and obtaining data from supply chains. Supporting parts of the platform provide data for climate related decision making and documenting climate risk disclosures. It is powered by Agentic AI and at the cutting edge of what is possible from a software point of view. Our mission is to enable the participation of all companies, big and small, in the global fight against climate change. And we want to do it the 21st century way—autonomous, painless, and beautiful.

Unravel brings together climate expertise and software/data experts with a passion to solve the world’s most pressing issue—climate change. Collectively, our leadership team has launched and invested in multiple companies, and are now combining their experience and knowledge here at Unravel Carbon. We focus on ensuring our product and delivery are world-class from a climate change and sustainability point of view, with the supporting team of software, product and data ensuring we build high-quality technology tools to support. Our aim is to provide organisations with the tools and data they need to make excellent climate-related decisions.

We are backed by some of the world’s best funds and investors and are part of Y Combinator’s W22 batch.

Unravel was founded in 2021 with headquarters in Singapore.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a Sustainability Consultant for our Japan expansion who will be the domain expert as we partner to help with enterprise clients to help them measure, track and decarbonise. You will be responsible primarily for customer delivery; calculating the carbon footprints of our customers, developing their emission reduction recommendation plans and determining their optimised decarbonisation pathways. You will be instrumental for customer success by accurately and efficiently providing our customers with evidence that they can act on - using the Unravel Carbon software as the key source of information. You will also provide input to the development of the Unravel Carbon software, AI Agents supporting the software outputs and general climate policy and approach - as it informs the strategy and responses of our customers.

As one of the early hires, and first team members in Japan you will be in a great position to learn about the inner workings of Unravel Carbon and gain operational exposure. You will be dealing directly with prospects and customers from the start, learn quickly, and make a real difference in our climate emergency fight.

• Assist companies in Japan, and across Asia-Pacific with data capture, analysis and advice relating to corporate and product emissions inventories - and using this data to inform sustainability and climate disclosures
• Develop net-zero roadmaps and emission reduction plans - using the Unravel Carbon platform to document those
• Input into ongoing development of the Unravel Carbon platform and the work we do
• General research support
• Support the commercial team as the sustainability domain expert when meeting with prospects
• Support our customers on the topics of net-zero, ESG and TCFD/IFRS/SSBJ reporting
• Work with Chief Sustainability Officer and Director of Sustainability on climate policy positioning where required
• Take responsibility to independently serve our customers and support future sustainability consultants in Japan

ABOUT YOU

• Fluency in English and Japanese written and oral communication skills
• You have working knowledge of the GHG Protocol plus at least one of the following topics:
• Corporate climate risk analysis and disclosure (GRI, ISSB, CDP etc.)
• Product carbon footprint and life-cycle assessment
• Decarbonisation efforts and energy efficiency
• You have excellent numerical skills and strong proficiency with Excel/spreadsheets, a methodical approach and can work independently
• You care about data integrity and quality
• You have a lot of curiosity, common sense and a broad understanding of carbon, climate and sustainability issues
• You're excited by the opportunity of an early-stage startup and faster development than a typical sustainability consultancy would provide
• You can engage people from different backgrounds and with different agendas
• Advantageous to be confident in communicating with customers and excel at organisation, in order to take more direct ownership of customer success including scheduling meetings and leading kick-off and debrief sessions
• You have high integrity, care about real climate impact, and can guide customers on this journey

YOUR WORK STYLE

• An understanding of agile product development
• Analytical and detail-oriented, and fully capable of navigating and combining various datasets to pull out key insights
• Self­-starter (proactive and independent) with an ability to prioritize different assignments and tasks to meet deadlines
• Comfortable working in a collaborative environment
• Eager and able to think outside of the box and creatively problem solve

YOUR PREFERRED BACKGROUND

• You have a bachelor and preferably a masters in sustainability, environmental engineering or climate science related field, or equivalent experience.
• You have 2-8 years of work experience, ideally in Sustainability Consulting focusing on corporate carbon accounting and/or climate change advisory
• Experience with climate risk analysis and transition risks will be very highly regarded

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

We offer an exciting challenge for a purpose-driven person who thoroughly enjoys learning and takes up responsibilities in a multi-cultural, A++ team and pioneering organization.

We nurture a culture that allows you to thrive, where your skills can be honed and your ideas will be heard, and where collaboration across teams and with global partners is the default.

勤務時間・曜日:

Standard working hours: 9:00-18:00 (including 1-hour break for Lunch)

Flextime system available when necessary:

• Start time: 5:00-12:00
• End time: 14:00-22:00
• Break time: Minimum 1 hour during working hours

その他:

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From 800,000円 per month

Average number of scheduled working hours (monthly): 160 hour(s)