Associate Director - Life Cycle Assessment

Department: Circ. & Value Chain Trans. : Advisory

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: United States

Compensation: $121,000 - $155,000 / year

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex LCA engagements from approach and methodology through delivery, ensuring technical rigor, robust assumptions, and alignment with relevant international standards and industry frameworks.
• Shape innovative LCA approaches for emerging and complex contexts where established methodologies may not yet provide clear answers, including new technologies, circular systems, service-based models, and evolving value chains.
• Turn complex analysis into actionable insight, translating LCA results and environmental impacts into clear recommendations for C-suite executives, product, manufacturing, and sustainability leaders.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to clients, challenging assumptions and problem framing when needed and designing tailored approaches that address their specific sustainability and business challenges.
• Provide technical leadership and quality assurance across projects, reviewing models and deliverables and supporting teams to consistently deliver high-quality work using tools such as SimaPro, OpenLCA, and Excel.
• Lead and develop project teams, managing priorities, delegating effectively, mentoring junior colleagues, and building LCA capabilities across the organization.
• Contribute to business development and growth, engaging in client conversations, shaping proposals and RFP responses, and identifying opportunities to expand Anthesis’ LCA offering.
• Help shape the future of LCA, contributing to thought leadership, new methodologies, automation, LCA at scale, Product Carbon Footprinting, sustainable product design, and technology-enabled sustainability transformation.
• Represent Anthesis externally through conferences, industry events, and other forums, strengthening our position as a leader in LCA and sustainability.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• 7+ years of hands-on LCA experience across multiple sectors, with experience leading complex assessments.
• Degree in Materials Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong command of SimaPro, OpenLCA, and Excel; experience with GaBi is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of ISO 14040/14044, ISO 14067, GHG Protocol Product Standard, PEF, PCRs, EPD-related EN standards, and relevant industry-specific frameworks.
• Experience with GHG inventories and corporate carbon footprinting.
• Demonstrated ability to apply LCA to complex or emerging contexts, including circular systems, new technologies, service-based systems, or evolving value chains.
• Strong understanding of how system boundaries, feedstocks, data quality, assumptions, and methodological choices can influence LCA outcomes and decision-making.
• Ability to work confidently with incomplete or imperfect information, using sound technical judgment to develop defensible approaches.
• Strong client-facing and communication skills, with the ability to make complex technical topics accessible and compelling to both technical and executive audiences.
• Proven ability to lead multiple complex projects, manage competing priorities, and maintain high standards of quality and delivery.
• Experience mentoring and developing others, with the ability to provide technical leadership without losing sight of the broader project and client context.
• Commercial mindset and confidence contributing to business development, proposals, and client conversations.
• Experience with technology, semiconductors, digital services, AI, cloud infrastructure, or technology-sector footprinting is a plus.

Job Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive group health, dental, and vision insurance plans for you and your dependents.
• FSA (Flexible Spending Account) benefit (US only).
• Anthesis provides 100% Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance benefit.
• In addition, Anthesis covers 100% of Short & Long-Term Disability Insurance benefits.
• Anthesis provides a 3% contribution into retirement plans, and you may elect to contribute more each pay period with a pre-tax deduction up to a certain cap.
• Anthesis provides Employee Assistance Program and Travel Insurance.
• Annual allotment of PTO, in addition to 56 hours of sick leave, paid company holidays, and more.
• Work within a highly motivated team in an innovative and rapidly growing global company.
• Opportunity to have a direct impact and contribute to the growth and development of Anthesis' LCA Center of Excellence.
• Work collaboratively on projects that have a meaningful impact on clients' sustainability, circularity, and climate goals.
• Opportunity to work alongside, collaborate with, and learn from sustainability Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) who are passionate about the work they do and the impact Anthesis can have.