Sustainability Advisor Full Time NEW

Job Description

Location – Chennai/ NCR/ Mumbai/ Pune/ Bangalore

Experience Range – 5 to 10 years

BG /Unit/Account – Sustainability advisory, Global Sustainability Services Practice

Role Name – Sustainability Advisor – Business

Preferred Specializations (optional) – Environmental management/ MBA (finance/ supply chain/strategy)/ Sustainability/ Environment

Preferred Skill Set (Optional) – Preferably with domain context & technology enablement – sustainability strategies & frameworks like GRI/ CSRD/ CSDDD/ SASB/ TCFD/ BRSR etc.; Net Zero, Decarbonization, climate resilience, energy transition, sustainable finance strategies;

Base location of the candidate (post joining TCS)

Brief about the Unit:

Powered by OneTCS mindset & TCS’ full services capabilities, the Global sustainability services practice (GSSP) focusses on driving innovation and ecosystem led sustainable growth for clients across all industries across the globe.

Consulting practice within strategy & advisory unit of GSSP focusses on driving cross industry advisory services for client’s via co-creating the strategy and building the roadmap to achieve the same. Specific cross industry focus areas include ESG reporting, Climate, Biodiversity, Decarbonization, GreenIT, Circularity, Sustainable supply chain, Safety, DE&I etc.

Responsibilities / Expected Deliverables:

• Establishing/ Refining overall sustainability strategy strategy/ plans
• Driving focused assessments/ initiatives for specific areas like Circularity/ Biodiversity/ Decarbonization/ Climate risks/ LCAs/ reporting frameworks or regulations etc.
• Enable integrated roles, processes, systems and insights towards triple bottom line across the enterprise or for specific domains like green finance, sustainable supply chains
• Building cross industry thought leadership insights for focus areas, in terms of point of views, research papers, PoCs, oversight for specific digital solutions etc.
• Influence and drive change towards target operating model as per sustainability roadmap/ plans
• Oversight for selection and deployment of technology enablement such as data, systems/ tools.

Desired Competencies (Technical/Behavioral Competency):

Must-Have**

1. Consulting & Coaching mindset
2. Experience with leveraging data to build insights for specific industries/ domains.
3. Awareness of reporting frameworks and specific areas like circularity/ climate/ decarbonization etc.
4. Experience of driving transformation programs with digital enablement
5. Proficiency in Microsoft 365 tools suite.
6. Excellent communication skills, storytelling, business problem identification and framing skills

Good-to-Have

1. Sustainability & domain certifications

2. GenAI awareness

3. Change Management experience

Description of the Project (Representative):

Few sample projects you could be involved with –

Reporting framework readiness advisory

You will be working as part of the consulting team focusing on delivering as an example a CSRD readiness assessment, which involves mapping roles/ KPIs/ systems etc and identifying the gaps to be covered as per material CSRD requirements.

Sustainable supply chain management

You will be working with advisory team on defining and/ or implementing the sustainable supply chain roadmap. This could involve analyzing current process/ roles/ systems/ insights, selecting and recommending the right mix of tools/ ERP modules and leveraging the digital technologies for enabling decision making