What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like YOU - people with an ambitious spirit who want to make a difference in this world. Cognizant's delivery model infused with a distinct culture of high customer happiness. We consistently deliver positive relationships, cost reductions, and business results. Be one of our change-makers and join the success story: we are looking for a

(Senior) Consultant – Data Advisory ESG (d/f/m)

Location across Germany

The Opportunity

With the power to apply artificial intelligence and data science to business decisions via enterprise data management solutions, we help leading companies design, prototype, refine, validate, and scale data and analytics solutions and delivery models to enterprise scale within weeks or months.

Cognizant Consulting (CC) works with the world´s leading organisations to provide collaborative... solutions to their technology-driven transformation challenges with innovative ideas that are embraced by their customers. With over 5,500 professionals around the world, the CC team is a fast-growing, high performing organisation that is continually expanding its client base and increasingly recommended by analysts.

As a (Senior) Consultant in one of Cognizant’s most strategically important and fastest-growing practices, you will bring leadership, passion, energy, strong communication skills and intellect, working collaboratively in agile environments with subject matter experts, technologists, creative teams and business stakeholders to support our clients on their digital transformation journey to become data and insights driven.

Your Key Result Areas
• You will deliver ESG consulting engagements related to client’s sustainability strategy, data reporting and other data projects as needed.
• You will work as part of a team (and potentially lead work streams in large projects) to deliver ESG Data projects, including current state assessments, high level solution design and roadmap development.
• You will provide support in project related to data analysis and reporting across a range of ESG metrics
• You will work on proposals and engage with customer pre-sales activities
• You will prepare presentation materials and pitch on sustainability and ESG-related topics internally and externally
• You will support Data Advisory Community Leaders in the development of AIA Advisory offerings and assets
• You will participate in the ESG Community to contribute to knowledge sharing practice
• You will Participate in continuous learning and development activities to maintain ‘leading edge’ skills relevant to our clients

Your Qualification
• You have minimum 6 years’ experience in business and/or data analysis, with minimum of 3 years expertise in ESG Data & Analytics
• You have a degree related sustainability field, business or finance preferred
• In-depth experience of data-related disciplines (e.g., ESG, data governance, MDM, data modelling, data integration etc.) and in leading / facilitating business workshops
• You have an excellent communication, requirements analysis, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills
• You have a good understanding of Sustainability topic and (but not necessarily hands-on) of the capabilities of leading enterprise BI / visualisation tool (e.g., PowerBI, Tableau, Qlik, MicroStrategy etc.)
• You have a good understanding of data science, AI, ML concepts
• Experience around Digital Transformation, Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), Data Platforms (both Lakes and Warehouses), IoT, etc.
• Experience of working in and ideally leading agile development environments (e.g., in Product Manager or Scrum Master role)
• Foundational level understanding of data privacy and/or regulatory frameworks
• Consulting expertise gained with a management consultancy or systems integrator is an advantage
• Good language skills in German and English

What you can expect
• A technology-driven-company – We have an excellent technological backbone
• Trend-setting projects – We are proud to work with the most important companies in the world
• Unique development perspectives – People are our priority, where you will be individually supported and challenged (internal and external training available)
• Open door & 'can do' team spirit – Authentic and open team, where every personality finds a place
• Independence and self-determination – An environment where you can manage your own projects and clients
• Sustainability Consulting Program – Participation in sustainable innovation projects where you can realise your ideas

Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our many backgrounds offer different perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, inspires thought leadership, and helps us build better solutions for our clients. We are looking for someone who drives in this setting and is inspired to craft significant solutions through true collaboration
Munich Germany

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