Sustainability Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services is seeking a Sustainability Consultant in St. Thomas Mount, Tamil Nadu. The role involves developing sustainability strategies, conducting assessments on areas like Circularity and Decarbonization, and driving change towards sustainability goals. Candidates should have a consulting mindset, experience in climate risk and decarbonization, and proficiency in Microsoft 365. The position is full-time with no specific degree required.
Location: Saint Thomas Mount
Responsibilities / Expected Deliverables:

Establishing or Refining overall sustainability strategy, roadmaps, pathways & plans
Driving focused assessments or initiatives for specific areas like Circularity, Biodiversity, Decarbonization, Climate risks, LCAs, reporting frameworks and regulations, industry specific benchmarking, decarbonization pathways research etc.
Enable integrated roles, processes, systems and insights towards triple bottom line goals across the enterprise or for specific domains like green finance, sustainable supply chains, energy transition
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 and plans
Oversight for selection and deployment of technology enablement such as data, systems/ tools.

Desired Competencies (Technical/Behavioral Competency):

Must-Have*
• Consulting & Coaching mindset
Advisory experience in areas such as double materiality, strategy validation, climate risk modelling, carbon markets, pathways assessments, energy transition, decarbonization etc.

Experience with leveraging data to build insights for specific industries/ domains.
Awareness of reporting frameworks and specific industries and focus areas like circularity/ climate/ decarbonization etc.

Experience of driving transformation programs with digital enablement
Proficiency in Microsoft 365 tools suite.
Excellent communication skills, storytelling, business problem identification and framing skills
Good-to-Have
1. Sustainability & domain certifications
2. GenAI awareness
3. Change Management experience