Business Sustainability – Wipro Limited

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 240,000 employees and business partners across 66 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities, to thrive in an ever-changing world.

Role : Senior/ Leadership in ESG, Business Sustainability

Background:

Leading companies around the world today are differentiated not just by their financial performance but also by their leadership on what is known as the ‘Triple Bottom Line’ of ‘People, Planet and Profits’. This triple bottom line – also known as corporate or business sustainability – pertains to the organization’s stewardship of its business strategy and operations in alignment with the overarching goals of improving economic performance, reducing its environmental footprint, and cultivating a diverse, healthy, safe, and empowering workplace. The best companies extend this approach also to their supply chains as well as to customer solutions. Underlying all this is a bedrock of values, good governance and transparent disclosures and reporting. Wipro has been a consistent leader in sustainability for the last decade and a half. Our initiatives in energy, water, waste management, biodiversity, people diversity, customer stewardship and supply chain responsibility have won us several recognitions including being a 12-time member of Dow Jones Leadership Index (DJSI), leadership in Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Ethisphere’s World’s Most Ethical Companies, among others.

The role of calls for a good understanding of environment, social and governance issues in a business context. We are looking for a person who has a good understanding of the drivers of business value creation – present and emerging. The person is expected to be aware of recent developments on ESG communications, sustainability risks and anchor new programs with a wide set of stakeholders – employees, suppliers, and customers. Our commitment to contribute to planetary net zero emissions scenarios by decarbonizing our own value chain by 2040 requires such capabilities. The ideal candidate would be a person with around 6 to 8 years of solid experience in business sustainability.

Key responsibilities include working closely and coordinating with various functions of the organization – HR, Operations, Legal and Compliance, Procurement, Risk Office, among others in developing and overseeing environmental, social and corporate governance policies.  An interest in aspects of business sustainability and its connections with developmental issues is vital to make a meaningful contribution to the role. The role requires contributing to the development of an ESG strategy for the company by benchmarking with internationally recognised best practices and frameworks like DJSI, CDP, GRI, TCFD, Ecovadis, FTSE4Good, MSCI ESG, WEF Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics among others, execute overall program/change management with functions, anchor non-financial disclosure related work (external and customer) and coordinating improvement areas across functions throughout the year. Outstanding writing skills and an innate ability to curate and write for formal disclosure frameworks like the Annual Integrated Report, GRI report, the DJSI etc. and providing an integrated picture to leadership is critical to the role. The role provides flexibility to explore other areas of environmental and community engagement projects within the group

Desired Qualities-

• Passionate about sustainability – especially on the role of business in society
• Believes in the power of collaborations – ability to work with different corporate functions and departments who may be at different levels of understanding
• Proactive and persistent – but open minded.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks that are both programmatic and administrative in nature
• Agility and ability to handle ambiguity
• Excellent networking and communication skills (written and verbal)
• A fast and keen learner who is willing to experiment, research and find unique ways of engagement
• Well versed with productivity applications (O365 Word, Excel, PowerPoint), website content management, collaboration tools

Relevant Experience:  8 to 12 years of relevant experience in Business Sustainability, ESG

Note: This is a full-time role and will be with Wipro Ltd.