Manager I Center of Excellence - Environmental, Social and Governance - TH

At Deloitte, we offer a unique and exceptional career experience to inspire and empower talents like you to make an impact that matters for our clients, people and community. Deloitte offers you a highly inclusive, collaborative workplace and unrivalled opportunities to realize your full potential. We are always looking for people with the relentless energy to push themselves further, and to find new avenues and unique ways to reach our shared goals.

Deloitte South East Asia commits to engage with our clients on the emerging sustainability issues. As a part of our commitment, the firm is setting up an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bangkok, Thailand to provide insights and solutions to key ESG issues such as Net-zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Climate Risk and ESG regulations, and offer support to all markets in the SEA region.  

Work you will do

This role sits within the ESG Center of Excellence team in Bangkok and seeks to support all South East Asia’s ESG initiatives, with an emphasis on regional collaboration on eminence building, ESG product and pipeline development, project implementation and training for service offerings. As a senior member of the team, you will help drive the growth of our ESG business in the region and be responsible for the co-creation, sale, and delivery of ESG solutions.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the team to drive collaboration with key stakeholders across Deloitte South East Asia (this includes Consulting, Audit and Assurance, Risk Advisory, Financial Advisory, Tax and Legal leadership, local market leadership, subject matter experts, and relevant partners), and coordinate among stakeholders on the execution of relevant initiatives.

• Set the eminence agenda with input from the Climate and Sustainability (C&S) program leadership team and drive that eminence agenda forward.

• Manage the branding and marketing initiatives across the SEA region. This will include events, thought leadership, and external partnership, with the support from our internal client services team.

• Collaborate with our marketing and PR partners on publicity and promotion of the initiatives.

• Collaborate with the firm’s leadership and regional talent team on planning training initiatives to equip all Deloitte Greendot staff on C&S capacity.

• Drive the development of all SEA go-to-market strategies, including pitching enablement, methodology, quality & risk management, and delivery.

• Evaluate markets, assess market size, growth, segmentation and overall attractiveness, and assess strengths and weaknesses of market participants with an ability to provide strategic insights

• Collaborate closely with ‘scale ups’ (focusing on FinTechs & GreenTechs) to enhance product value propositions, identify real pain points and growth opportunities.

• Demonstrate experience in Financial Services, Fintech, and ESG. (Prior regional experience working in South East Asia is preferred).

• Demonstrate track record of successfully supporting businesses from concept to commercialisation.

Your role as a leader

At Deloitte, we believe in the importance of empowering our people to be leaders at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose and shared values, challenging themselves everyday to identify issues that are most important to our clients, our people and the communities, and to make an impact that matters. In addition to living our purpose, Managers/ Senior Managers /Directors across our Firm are expected to:

• Establish a strong leadership brand by inspiring others through passion, integrity, and appreciation.

• Create opportunities to drive impact by leveraging each person’s strengths to build high performing teams.

• Apply deep knowledge of trends and activity to drive continuous improvement and build lasting relationships across a diverse network.

• Translate and communicate broader strategy into a convincing team vision and goals, in order to align the team and sets priorities to achieve objectives.

• Actively contribute to building the talent pipeline by championing a talent experience that attracts, develops and retains top talent and high performing teams.

Enough about us, let's talk about you

If you are someone with:

• Minimum 12 years of working experience preferably a balanced mix of consulting and industry experience.

• University level degree with strong numerical, analytical and excellent story boarding skills.

• Deep understanding on the climate and sustainability landscape in the Asia-Pacific region, with practical experience preferred.

• Deep understanding of key ESG metrics and how to develop programs to achieve them.

• Significant applicable experience in ESG market/industry, and to be accepted by internal and external customers as a ESG Subject Matter Expert.

• Strong capacity and experience in internal communication.

• Ability to articulate an eminence agenda based on understanding the firm’s priorities.

• Ability to translate, clarify, generate, and capture ideas.

• Ability to elevate ideas for intended audience.

• Ability to make decisions with confidence based on analysis of available information to drive business success.

• Ability to lead projects and provide strategic direction across the account to deliver a superior client experience.

• Ability to project confidence, establish credibility with and influence clients at all levels.

• Ability to leverage financial information and business case to build support for a solution.

• Ability to adopt a global approach to networking, building eminence and assembling teams to best serve clients.

• Ability to sell potential and current clients on Deloitte’s services and negotiate profitable transactions for the Firm.

• Ability to advise the client to make decisions that positively impact return on investment; provides subject matter expertise on sector trends and leading practices.

• Ability to generate innovative ideas and turn them into profitable business opportunities for our clients and the Firm.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication skills and presentation skills (including exposure to public forums / larger audiences).

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and in Thai language at business proficiency level.

Next Steps

So what are you waiting for? Join the winning team now.

Due to volume of applications, we regret only shortlisted candidates will be notified.