Senior Consulting Manager, Automotive

A chance to work on cutting edge, complex sustainability and regulatory engagements in the automotive domain, lead product teams involved in digitizing the sustainability initiatives, work with multi geography teams to ensure timely delivery of the programs and meet the objectives. Work in true agile product centric teams and work as SME or BA as required. The individual can grow to lead a team in sustainability & regulatory domains in the manufacturing and industrial domains.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Advisory & Support: Advise clients on how to implement sustainability into their business models focusing on decarbonization and waste reduction.
• Regulatory Compliance: Help clients understand and comply with evolving European sustainability regulations and reporting standards like DPP, EUDR, ESPR, ESRS and Vehicle conformity regulations.
• Reporting & Monitoring: Help clients in collection of data and monitoring of their environmental, social and financial performance to ensure it meets sustainability objectives.
• Work packages: Convert the regulatory requirements into work packages that can be implemented by process change/digital intervention/tech upgrades. Guide the customers to arrive at those work packages where required.
• Innovation: Foster innovation in the sustainability solutions and share best practices across different industry segments to benefit the clients.
• Project Management: Continuously demonstrate the principles of professional project management and governance, providing a consistently reliable service to sponsors, key stakeholders and colleagues. Ensuring that projects are executed within specified timeframes and budget in accordance with declared quality and benefit targets using defined framework, controls, processes and support tools. Act as first point escalation across projects. Responsible for ownership to resolve RAID problems including liaising with wider stakeholder group as needed. Ensure the team keeps focus on the sprint goal to deliver the work committed to in the sprints. Continually look for ways to support the team perform at their highest level. Produce Project Reports for presentation to key stakeholders.

Essential Skills

• Must have strong expertise in Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) in Automotive & Industrial manufacturing domains.
• Familiarity with EU's ESG regulations affecting the Auto & Industrial manufacturing domains.
• Knowledge of the NA ESG regulations as increasingly clients are looking for global solutions.
• Story communication & advisory skills.
• Experience of at least one significant project implementation in the EU ESG regulation area.
• The ability to operate in a dynamic and rapidly expanding environment, requiring flexible thinking and regular collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Good understanding of the workings in Manufacturing domain.
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to manage ambiguity to drive conversations forward.
• Excellent team player who possesses strong interpersonal skills.
• Good experience working with Agile tools like Rally, JIRA etc.

Qualification & Nice to have skills

• Agile product manager certifications.
• Agile Scrum master certifications.
• Educated to Undergraduate degree at the minimum.
• Bachelor or Masters in business administration or equivalent.

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