Technology Consulting (Sustainability) - Sustainability Technology Director

Location: Dublin
Business area: Technology Consulting 
Contract type: Permanent / Full-time
Working model: Hybrid

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture, and technology to become the best version of you, we are counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

EY have a number of career opportunities available, and we are interested in meeting candidates who are looking for a new challenge, one where you can develop your range of skills significantly. Be that a move out of industry into practice, or from within practice into advisory services. We are looking for future leaders with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. Our opportunities will allow you to apply your expertise to a variety of projects whilst offering you excellent career progression opportunities.

The team and the opportunity

As part of our ambition to become the Sustainability digital transformation go-to partner, EY have established a Sustainability Technology business within Consulting. This is a home for our talent and will be a differentiator in the marketplace.

Our clients are facing a future of massive disruption driven by climate change, regulatory reporting, stakeholder expectations, new competition, and technology innovation. By bringing our brand, content, and technology together, EY can become our clients trusted and chosen transformation partner. Our approach and solutions combine the breadth and scale of EY’s leading advisory and technology practices, capabilities and insight to drive real transformation, real change, real outcomes and we are expanding its Technology Consulting team to help these companies to successfully navigate this disruption and take advantage of new opportunities

You will join the EY’s Sustainability Technology team within Technology Consulting, working closely with communities of sustainability and technology focused professionals who work together to deliver this change, sharing modern engineering enablement and smart automation to optimise delivery and speed to outcome.  We embed digital sustainability across people, process, and technology to enable more effective governance and efficient business operations. Our solution provides clients with sustainability digital services across ESG, EHS and Sustainability in collaboration with our EY Partner Ecosystem.  
    
These teams have deep functional knowledge and experience across our client’s core business functions, combined with deep technical skills to lead and deliver business outcome led high quality client solutions. Our management consultants and our technology consultants are the same – client focused, functional advice combined with technology enablement, one team, one dialogue, driving change and outcomes.

The role as Director is a fantastic opportunity to lead the translation of clients’ Sustainability and ESG challenges, leveraging strong commercial acumen and technical expertise, into key business and functional requirements, to build digital solutions that drive value for their customers and employees. You will play a key role in supporting the development and strengthen existing client relationships and help our clients navigate the complex Sustainability issues facing their business. As part of this growing team, you will also get to help shape the innovative culture that makes EY such a great place to work.
 

What we offer and how we will support your Career progression

Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
Continuous learning: personalised career development including coaching, experiences and formal learning so you’ll develop the mindset and skills you’ll need to thrive in the future. Transformative leadership, we will give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
Career progression: When you join EY, you will be supported to ensure that you are enhancing your skills from day one. As you grow and develop here, you’ll discover opportunities to help customise your career journey, so that it’s as unique as you are. 
Benefits: We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, with a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

Your experience in EY will also include:

• Free enrolment in EY’s Tech MBA Programme accredited by Hult International Business School
• Discounted health insurance
• Pension
• The purchase of additional annual leave
• Hybrid Working model

Your key responsibilities

Market / Client Centricity:

Your role will be to focus on EY’s clients across various sectors, Manufacturing, Food, Materials, Logistics and Public Sector (Infrastructure, Government and Health) to drive opportunities, relationships and profitable revenue from Sustainability-led digital transformation service proposition. You will work to develop your own network and relationships at the client, understand their issues and, from that, develop service line solutions and drive incremental profitable revenue. You will work closely with Lead Partners, Sector Leads, other Business Development leads and the EY alliance partner network.

• Identify and gather information on new client and sector issues through meetings and share this effectively within Tech Consulting.
• Facilitate expansion of points of contact between EY and the client. Create, maintain and drive the execution of the relationship map and plan to develop many to many contacts.
• Personally lead development of those relationships where EY has no existing relationship, introducing and supporting connections for specialists to then win work
• Develop peer relationships with client senior management, and together with the Sustainability Lead Partner, build Board and ExCo level connection
• Co-ordinate client relationship events and ensure return on investment is measured through deepened relationships and increased opportunity for EY to work with the client.
• Lead the origination of client’s solutions to their digital-related challenges in sales and/or service functions.
• Lead the bidding, winning and delivering of customer and digital transformation engagements of significant size and scope.
• Focus on current issues to ensure that relevant time sensitive solutions and ideas are communicated to clients using internal network to identify EY’s angle and develop a proposition to take to the client
• Identify white space at the client/sector and individuals to target. Lead on developing and driving plans
• Boost sales conversion through deploying rigorous sales processes, pricing, contracting and negotiation, to win work across multiple channels
• Ensure all sales activities are consistent with EY account plan sales process, client service meetings, client service reviews etc.
• Act as a focal point for selling new propositions, working closely with the Sector Lead to drive specific agreed topics across the Sector
• Actively seek opportunities to add more value to the client, through cross-functional solutions
• Provide visibility of sales pipeline by ensuring opportunity management systems are kept up to date 

    
Engagement Delivery:

Work with the client to shape and develop their transformation roadmap and change portfolio on the chosen Sustainability platforms.

• Act as Delivery QA and escalation point for a multitude of concurrent delivery engagements.
• Ensure that customer and digital transformation projects or their work-streams within a large engagement are effectively scoped, managed and delivered on time, to budget and within EY’s agreed risk frameworks.
• Have a strong, working knowledge of Design initiatives and how to integrate these into a transformation project
• Be responsible for building and executing the project plan and managing any risks and issues appropriately 
• Help develop projects’ Business case and benefits tracking
• Work with Engineering team to prototype, test, integrate technology

    
People Leadership:

Line management of Senior Managers and Managers within the team, coaching, guiding and helping them grow to their full potential.

• Focus on own development.
• Continuous meaningful career development and performance review conversation with direct reports
• Lead, manage and maximise the performance of project teams when acting as the Engagement/Delivery Lead.

Skills and attributes for success

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Significant experience in Sustainability digital transformation leveraging leading technology platforms, ecosystems, and other emerging technologies
• Experience in managing digital transformation projects across carbon accounting, net zero, EHS compliance and transformation, ESG reporting, supply chain, human rights, circular economy, and biodiversity
• Experience with leading sustainability reporting frameworks (GRI, CDP, TCFD, SASB etc.) and mandatory reporting (SECR, EU Taxonomy, ESRS, etc.)
• Excellent project management skills including experience in large cross functional and/or cross geographical programmes 
• Experience of leading and delivering ‘connected consulting’ programmes – overseeing teams outside of Front Office and Digital to deliver a wider transformation programme
• Experience in managing client relationships
• Leading bid teams, including demonstrable examples of winning revenue for a business
• Articulate the value of Sustainability Technology and emerging technologies in business to a non-technical audience in a clear and compelling fashion.
• Run compelling workshops, to extract and challenge information from client SME’s and successfully guides participants through unknown territory.
• Solid knowledge of the design thinking ethos of human centre design and ability to adopt it to solve client issues.
• Strong understanding of the application of agile methodology in both product development and organizational structure.
• Creative problem solving ability, inquisitive mind-set, comfortable with working in ambiguous situations.
• Strong people management skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills.
• Excellent commercial awareness. 
• Ability to rapidly identify issues and propose solutions.
• Ability to work independently with limited oversight.
• Ability to deliver high quality assignments under time pressure.
• Ability to grow and develop people working for them.
   

Inclusion & Diversity
We hold a collective commitment to foster an environment where all differences are valued and respected, practices are equitable and everyone experiences a sense of belonging: Inclusion, diversity, and equity are part of who we are at EY. We believe that the highest-performing teams maximize the power of different perspectives and backgrounds. These teams are both diverse and inclusive and are willing to invite and learn from other perspectives. Our ability to include various viewpoints into our mindsets, behaviours and operations is fundamental to driving innovation, building strong relationships, and delivering the best solutions for our clients.

We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and building a culture where we support all our people to achieve their potential. You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

CIPD 2020 Diversity and Inclusion Winner, GreatPlaceToWork’s Top 20 UK’s Best Workplaces for Women 2020 (Super Large Category) And Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2019 & 2020.

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