Global Sustainability Data & Digitalization Manager

Growth For Impact; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Accessibility accommodations

AI-assisted recruitment tools

Job summary

Growth For Impact in Bengaluru seeks a senior leader to define and implement a global sustainability data strategy. You will establish governance, ensure data interoperability, and translate sustainability needs into scalable digital solutions across IT, Digital, EA and Data teams.

You will maximize data lake usage, drive automation, and leverage AI to generate insights for business decisions, supporting regulatory reporting and future-ready sustainability capabilities.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years of experience with 5 years in sustainability.
• Experience in sustainability, ESG reporting, digital transformation, data analytics, or related areas is a must.
• Utilize emerging technologies such as AI and advanced analytics to improve sustainability performance.
• Extensive experience in data, digitalization, analytics or transformation roles within a global organization.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement enterprise-level data or digital solutions.
• Experience working with complex data ecosystems and multiple stakeholders.
• Exposure to sustainability, ESG, supply chain or product data contexts strongly preferred.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to connect business strategy, data and technology.
• Ability to influence and align senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong problem-solving and prioritization skills in complex environments.
• Business-driven mindset with a clear focus on efficiency, scalability and impact.
• Curiosity and practical understanding of AI and advanced analytics applications.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement the global sustainability data strategy aligned with business, regulatory and digital roadmaps.
• Establish clear data governance, ownership, quality and traceability models across the sustainability value chain.
• Ensure consistency and interoperability of sustainability data across systems, regions and functions.
• Translate sustainability requirements into scalable data and digital solutions.
• Act as the primary sustainability interface to IT, Digital, Enterprise Architecture and Data teams.
• Maximize the use of existing digital core platforms, enterprise data lakes and reporting tools.
• Support the selection, integration and rollout of new sustainability-relevant tools and platforms where required.
• Ensure solutions are future-proof, modular and aligned with IT architecture standards.
• Drive automation of sustainability data collection, consolidation and reporting to minimize manual processes.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI, analytics and digital technologies to extract insights from existing data.
• Enable predictive, risk-based and opportunity-focused sustainability intelligence to support business decisions.
• Promote data reuse and self-service analytics where appropriate.
• Enable efficient, audit-ready and scalable data flows for sustainability and regulatory reporting.
• Reduce duplication of data requests across functions and reporting frameworks.
• Anticipate evolving reporting and customer requirements and ensure proactive readiness.
• Improve data reliability, transparency and confidence at management and leadership levels.
• Coordinate sustainability data activities across Supply Chain, Business Units, Finance, Risk and other data owners.
• Drive adoption of harmonized data processes and digital ways of working.
• Support capability building by translating technical data concepts into clear business value.
• Act as a change agent, embedding digital and data thinking into sustainability execution.

Skills

Data governance

Sustainability

AI analytics

Stakeholder management

Data architecture

Regulatory reporting

Digital transformation

Strategic thinking

Tools

Data lakes

Enterprise architecture

Reporting tools

Job description

ROLE

• Define and implement the global sustainability data strategy aligned with business, regulatory and digital roadmaps
• Establish clear data governance, ownership, quality and traceability models across the sustainability value chain
• Ensure consistency and interoperability of sustainability data across systems, regions and functions
• Translate sustainability requirements into scalable data and digital solutions
• Act as the primary sustainability interface to IT, Digital, Enterprise Architecture and Data teams
• Maximize the use of existing digital core platforms, enterprise data lakes and reporting tools
• Support the selection, integration and rollout of new sustainability-relevant tools and platforms where required
• Ensure solutions are future-proof, modular and aligned with IT architecture standards
• Drive automation of sustainability data collection, consolidation and reporting to minimize manual processes
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI, analytics and digital technologies to extract insights from existing data
• Enable predictive, risk-based and opportunity-focused sustainability intelligence to support business decisions
• Promote data reuse and self-service analytics where appropriate
• Enable efficient, audit-ready and scalable data flows for sustainability and regulatory reporting
• Reduce duplication of data requests across functions and reporting frameworks
• Anticipate evolving reporting and customer requirements and ensure proactive readiness
• Improve data reliability, transparency and confidence at management and leadership levels
• Coordinate sustainability data activities across Supply Chain, Business Units, Finance, Risk and other data owners
• Drive adoption of harmonized data processes and digital ways of working
• Support capability building by translating technical data concepts into clear business value
• Act as a change agent, embedding digital and data thinking into sustainability execution

REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum 12 years of experience with 5 years of relevant sustainability field experience
• Experience in sustainability, ESG reporting, digital transformation, data analytics, or related areas is a must
• Utilize emerging technologies such as AI, and advanced analytics to improve sustainability performance and transparency
• Extensive experience in data, digitalization, analytics or transformation roles within a global organization
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement enterprise-level data or digital solutions
• Experience working with complex data ecosystems and multiple stakeholders
• Exposure to sustainability, ESG, supply chain or product data contexts strongly preferred
• Strong systems thinking and ability to connect business strategy, data and technology
• Ability to influence and align senior stakeholders without direct authority
• Strong problem-solving and prioritization skills in complex environments
• Business-driven mindset with a clear focus on efficiency, scalability and impact
• Curiosity and practical understanding of AI and advanced analytics applications

BENEFITS

• Accessibility and reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with a disability
• Use of AI and automated tools in recruitment to support the hiring process