Associate Director Sustainability

The Associate Director for Sustainability is a senior leadership role accountable for developing and driving our climate and environmental strategy advisory efforts for clients including guiding our clients in embedding climate-related risks environmental impacts and opportunities into their enterprise risk management strategic planning and decision-making. The role translates evolving climate science environmental management regulation and market expectations into practical actions that improve resilience enable transition planning and support operational performance.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Sustainability and ESG consulting:
  • Advise senior client stakeholders on sustainability strategy translating ambition into actionable roadmaps (e.g. net-zero/low-carbon transition plans sustainability operating models and value-creation cases)
  • Lead client-facing decarbonisation programmes across Scope 1 2 and 3 guiding emissions baselining abatement planning implementation sequencing and governance for delivery
  • Design practical processes controls and data requirements aligned to leading frameworks and evolving regulation e.g. ISO14001 ISSB/IFRS S1/S2 GRI SASB TCFD/TNFD and CSRD where applicable
  • Work with clients sustainability risk finance and strategy leaders to develop climate-risk and resilience approaches including scenario analysis and transition/physical risk considerations
  • Integrate outputs into strategy capital allocation and enterprise risk management
  • Advise procurement and operations leaders on sustainable supply chain transformation embedding sustainability requirements supplier engagement traceability and performance improvement across the value chain
  • Partner with client leadership to embed sustainability into governance and decision-making (policies incentives KPI design and performance management) to drive accountability and benefits realisation
  • Facilitate executive and cross-functional client workshops to align on materiality priorities trade-offs and implementation sequencing
  • Manages senior stakeholders to build buy-in and accelerate adoption
  • Build sustainability pipeline through client conversations insights and repeatable assets
  • Collaborate across Deloitte capabilities to bring the right specialists to client opportunities and deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Client delivery and project engagement:
  • Shape project approach define problem statements hypotheses workplans governance and deliverable standards; align to client outcomes
  • Lead delivery execution across disciplines (strategy operating model process technology data change) ensuring integration and quality control
  • Ensure scope clarity and delivery feasibility
  • Manage engagement economics across scope effort budget margin and change control anticipate issues and resolve proactively
  • Develop differentiating assets (point of views accelerators case studies) that support win rates and delivery consistency
  • Oversee risk independence/compliance obligations and delivery governance escalate early and maintain audit trail of decisions
  • Lead executive-ready storytelling synthesise insights craft recommendations and present to senior stakeholders.
• Business Development
  • Business development and commercial management
  • Build and manage a sales pipeline aligned to priority industries/offers
  • Develop account plans with measurable growth objectives
  • Lead or co-lead proposals (solution design resourcing model pricing risk review) and executive pitch preparation
  • Contribute to contracting and commercial negotiations in line with firm policies.
• People leadership and talent development
  • Lead coach and develop direct reports setting clear expectations and providing actionable feedback
  • Own team performance management inputs (goal setting mid-year/year-end feedback promotion inputs) consistent with firm processes
  • Create an inclusive safe and high-performing team culture
  • Role-model wellbeing ethics and professional standards
  • Support recruitment including interviewing candidate assessment onboarding and early performance support.
• Practice management:
  • Contribute to offer development and continuous improvement of methodologies templates and accelerators
  • Publish or contribute to thought leadership (articles conference sessions client events) to build market presence
  • Collaborate across Deloitte businesses to deliver integrated solutions (e.g. Consulting Risk Advisory Tax/Legal Financial Advisory)
  • Maintain compliance with independence quality and confidentiality requirements; champion ethical decision-making.

Your role as a leader

At Deloitte we believe in the importance of leadership at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients our people and for society and make an impact that addition to living our purpose Managers across our organization:

• Develop high-performing people and teams through challenging and meaningful opportunities
• Deliver exceptional client service; maximize results and drive high performance from people while fostering collaboration across businesses and borders
• Influence clients teams and individuals positively leading by example and establishing confident relationships with increasingly senior people
• Understand key objectives for clients and Deloitte; align people to objectives and set priorities and direction.

Key success measures (illustrative KPIs)

• Client outcomes achieved (benefits realised milestones met risk reduced) and strong client satisfaction feedback
• Engagement performance: on-time delivery quality review results and healthy financial metrics (margin write-offs scope control)
• Business development contribution: qualified pipeline created proposals led/co-led revenue influenced/closed
• People outcomes: team retention progression/promotion readiness coaching effectiveness and inclusive team culture indicators
• Firm-building: reusable assets created thought leadership published and cross-business collaboration outcomes.

Key stakeholders and working pattern

• External: client executives and senior leaders programme sponsors steering committees vendors/partners
• Internal: Directors/Partners account leadership solution specialists delivery centres risk/quality teams and Talent/HR
• Working pattern: project-based with periods of peak demand; travel may be required depending on client location and engagement needs.

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications

• Completed Bachelors degree
• Postgraduate qualification (MBA/Masters) highly advantageous e.g. Environmental Sciences
• Relevant credentials (where applicable) may include GHG Protocol training GRI Professional Certification SASB/ISSB/IFRS sustainability disclosure training or climate risk/scenario analysis credentials.

Required Experience

• Minimum 12 years relevant experience in management consulting and/or a strategy transformation or operational leadership role in industry
• At least 5 years at a senior management level directing team activities and sales or account pursuits
• Successful track record working with C-suite executive level leadership
• Proven experience leading complex transformations (strategy operating model process improvement technology-enabled change) from design through to implementation
• Demonstrated experience selling and delivering consulting work e.g. leading proposals creating account expansion opportunities managing client satisfaction
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams and developing mid-level leaders
• Sustainability-specific experience is advantageous (e.g. net-zero transition planning emissions accounting ESG data/reporting transformation climate risk and resilience sustainable supply chains environmental management systems)

Additional Information :

How youll grow

At Deloitte our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders we believe theres always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help build world-class skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs at Deloitte University our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career. Explore Deloitte University The Leadership Center.  Deloitte we know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits. Learn more about what working at Deloitte can mean for you.  purpose

Deloitte is led by a purpose: to make an impact that matters. Every day Deloitte people are making a real impact in the places they live and work. We pride ourselves on doing not only what is good for clients but also what is good for our people and the communities in which we live and workalways striving to be an organization that is held up as a role model of quality integrity and positive change. Learn more about Deloittes impact on the world.   The list of tasks / duties and responsibilities contained in this document is not necessarily exhaustive.  Deloitte may ask the employee to carry out additional duties or responsibilities which may fall reasonably within the ambit of the role profile depending on operational requirements.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time