Job Description

About dss+
dss+ is a leading operations management consulting firm offering sustainability services to corporate, public, and international organizations across a range of specialist subject areas. dss+ offers advisory and implementation transformational services in Operational Risk, Operational Excellence, Sustainability enabled by Learning & Development and Digital Technologies.


dss+ has employees across the globe offering services primarily in the Metals & Mining, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Manufacturing, Consumer Products and Financial Services industries.


Our global sustainability practice has strong intellectual property (IP), methodologies, and capabilities in sustainability across key offering areas \xe2\x80\x93 ESG & Sustainable Finance, Sustainability Strategies, Energy Transition & Decarbonisation, Circular Economy & Resource Management, and Capability & Culture Transformation. We focus on sustainability implementation and transformational change.


Alongside our dss+ industrial operations heritage and expertise in operational risk management, operations excellence, learning & development, data analytics & digital technology, our capabilities provide an integrated, transformational solution to enable clients to realize their business goals.


At dss+ we embrace and celebrate diversity. We have established an inclusive culture, where everyone contributes, has the chance to develop and display their talents in solving challenging client problems. We have a team-based culture and thus we look for people that operate well in this environment, are intellectually curious and are adaptive, in ensuring their contribution fits within the evolving themes and dynamics of our projects.


As ASEAN Senior Manager, you will develop the go to market strategy and execution for our Sustainability and ESG services and offerings. You will understand business challenges faced by client executives in leading organizations in order to design solutions that effectively support clients\xe2\x80\x99 sustainability transformation journey - from developing Sustainability and ESG strategies, to decarbonisation roadmaps through to supporting the implementation of solutions and capability development.


You will have a strategic and client facing engagement and delivery role across the consulting value chain leading and or supporting business development efforts, project execution and account development.

You will be regional thought leader in Sustainability, responsible to help shape and drive our strategy in collaboration with our regional APAC Industry Teams cluster leads. In addition, you will collaborate with the existing Global Sustainability and ESG advisory teams. You will contribute to build a local sustainability team in line with the revenue growth and drive client impact across our priority industries in the ASEAN and wider APAC region.

We are looking for a leader who:

• Is excited by the prospect of making a real difference for our existing clients and prospects;
• Has passion for solving challenging issues and making a measurable impact;
• Is a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment;
• Is a team player, collaborative and capable in leading diverse teams;
• Thrives in complexity, a critical thinker and have intellectual curiosity, with flexibility to analyse and adapt to situations;
• Is a great listener, coach and trusted advisor with ability to understand client business context and support the sustainability transformation journey;
• Can work on the ground with the front-line workers and senior client Executives.

Responsibilities

• Report directly to APAC leadership and accountable to develop and lead the ASEAN sustainability consulting business;
• Develop go-to-market strategy to support national/regional business growth in collaboration with the Global industry teams;
• Focus on supporting the core regional APAC Industry Teams: Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Mining & Metals, Consumer Products, Power & Utilities and Private Equity;
• Collaborate closely with the global sustainability practice contributing to thought leadership, offerings and methodologies bringing global best practices into the APAC market and clients;
• Working with the APAC Industry Teams, leading sustainability business development activities providing expert support in the development of client proposals;
• Provide expert advisory support of sustainability in consulting business assessment and implementation engagements;
• Be a trusted advisor with senior client executives and maintain relationships in alignment with the account team to deepen and expand relationships;
• Participate and contribute to internal and external functional and/or industry networks with the aim of developing new business working with the global Marketing and the Industry Teams;
• You will have a client delivery chargeability target and a business development target.

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  Technical knowledge and experience in supporting clients on sustainability transformational journeys including setting strategies, developing operational roadmaps, integrating into business units and functions and supporting implementation activities;
• Strong understanding of, and conversant with clients across sustainability and ESG standards, tools, methodologies as applied in APAC regionally in the context of regulation, competitive landscape, value chains and industry challenges and trends;
• Proven track record in management consulting building and / or leading a practice;
• Knowledge and experience in one or more of our key industries:
  • Oil & Gas
  • Chemicals
  • Mining & Metals
  • Consumer Products
  • Power & Utilities
  • Private Equity
• Familiarity with climate change risks and opportunities; experience with climate risk assessments, scenario analysis, and/or transition finance;
• Solid technical and business / commercial acumen;
• Effective leadership skills to lead dss+ internal teams and client executives;
• Experience serving as a trusted advisor to senior client executive levels with demonstrated history of account revenue growth.

Qualifications / Expertise

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s in Science, Engineering or Business, MBA or MS preferred;
• Ideal candidate will have a mix of industry and consulting background;
• 12+ years of professional experience in management consulting;
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and team-working attitude to be able to work in with fast-paced, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teams;
• Fluency in both written and spoken English. Other languages such as Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Mandarin or Cantonese will be a plus.

NOTE: Candidates who have very recently applied to other dss+ Sustainability roles in this region have already been considered for this vacancy.