Associate Director, Sustainability Consulting (Sustainable IT)

Description

Advisory Capability Lead, Sustainability Advisory

(Senior Consulting Manager/Associate Director level)

ABOUT US

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

COGNIZANT CONSULTING

Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we're growing!

SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY

Our Sustainability Practice is our newest capability group within Cognizant Consulting. We're thrilled to launch this newly defined team, and we're looking for leaders to help us shape, lead, and grow this vital practice.

We support clients through the strategic, market, regulatory, organizational, investor, and societal pressures triggered by complex sustainability drivers. We leverage industry, digital, technology, and business consulting knowledge to define and implement commercially transformative sustainability strategies for our clients, embedding sustainability across their enterprises and value chains.

THE ROLE

We're looking for colleagues to help us bring consulting-led change across a vast client landscape with the imperative and appetite for sustainable transformation.

As an Advisory Capability Lead in the Sustainability Advisory Practice, you'll need the right experience and the right mindset. We're looking for professionals with experience in shaping, and developing sustainability consulting offerings, leveraging them successfully in client business development engagement and leading their subsequent delivery. The portfolio of offerings (or 'Advisory Capabilities') include: ESG Risk Analytics and Modelling; Shaping Sustainability Strategies; Data Management Strategies for ESG Reporting and Decision Making; Innovation and Product Development for Sustainability-Based Growth; Resilient, sustainable and transparent supply-chains; and Natural capital strategies and solutions. We're looking for professionals with deep experience in developing and leveraging these offerings to deepen client relationships and value.

Qualifications

• 10 - 15 years of sustainability advisory experience in cross-sector and international settings including the creation and go-to-market execution of consulting offerings (eg. shaping; methodology and training material development; costing and pricing; resourcing; marketing, thought-leadership and promotional activities; and delivery) in Sustainability and demonstrable experience in leveraging digital technologies for client outcomes
• A successful track record of developing relationships and selling, managing forecasts, and driving an organization of professional consultants in winning and delivering business and achieving financial targets
• Possessing a large network of relevant contacts and presence in professional organizations and industry forums
• Experience in building results-oriented, high-performing consulting teams
• An educational background to support the above; Bachelor's degree required; MBA Preferred
• Personal leadership, a pioneering mentality and a desire to create a culture that enables exceptional outcomes.

Our Advisory Capability Leads must be both a consulting leader in Sustainability as well as a partner to our Industry leaders and clients. We're looking for colleagues with industry expertise who can build and sell advisory services that change everyday lives, and can lead teams of consultants to outcomes that truly change the world. We work with some of the most well-known and influential companies in the world, and we're ready to supercharge our impact.

We're really excited about this opportunity and we're looking for the right leaders to join us in this endeavor. Our solutions are in ever-increasing demand and we're passionate about making a difference. If you have deep management consulting experience with a passion for sustainability, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you can bring expertise, vision, and execution; if you want to lead an industry to new heights and grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you!