Net-Zero Senior Consultant (Project Management)

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

Within Corporate Sustainability’s Environmental Management team, the Net Zero Senior Consultant actively contributes to the success of SAP’s environmental sustainability strategy and the Net Zero 2030 program. In this role, you mainly investigate the optimization of SAP’s product footprint, and potentials for reducing it. This requires a strong focus on the goal-oriented execution of project activities and relationship building with key stakeholders to facilitate the improvement of SAP’s sustainability performance and active reduction of emissions.

What you'll do:

• Contribute to SAP’s environmental sustainability programs and initiatives to ensure SAP meets its commitments outlined in the SAP Global Environmental Policy such as achieving Net-Zero by 2030.
• Bring in expert knowledge on environmental sustainability, efficient software development and architecture, provide thought leadership and act as a trusted advisor for our community.
• Support SAP’s sustainability business, compose and manage requirements, and track KPIs to ensure business value creation as well as quality of implementation.
• Collaborate with colleagues from the Corporate Sustainability Team, and other relevant lines of business within SAP such as (Product Development, Cloud Infrastructure and Controlling).
• Manage projects to identify areas for optimization of SAP’s core products and create tangible environmental impact.

What you bring:

• University degree in business informatics, natural sciences, sustainability management or comparable.
• 4-5+ years of working experience with proven track record in software development, or consulting focusing on software optimization and reduction energy footprints.
• Project management skills and experiences in complex stakeholder environments.
• Structured, proactive, flexible, and collaborative working style and eager to learn.
• Ability to deliver high quality under deadline pressure, while leading multiple tasks in complex environments.
• Strong leadership skills, intercultural sensitivity, and strength to influence without authority.
• Excellent and fluent English skills.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Supporting SAP’s purpose to help the world run better and improving people’s lives, the global Sustainability Team is on a mission to transform SAP to a role model of a sustainable company and create positive economic, environmental, and social impact within planetary boundaries. The team collaborates with all internal lines of business and works on embedding sustainability further into SAP’s corporate strategy, product and service portfolio, policies, processes, practices, and everything we do. This means improving the sustainability performance of our own operations, driving customer impact creation, and stimulating new sustainability initiatives across the organization. We warmly invite you to become part of our team and shape SAP’s sustainability journey together with us.

The Sustainability Team offers you to…

• work with a self-managing team who is supportive, passionate about their work and eager to initiate and embrace positive change.
• become part of a highly dynamic, important, and demanding professional field.
• expand your professional network by collaborating with diverse, international stakeholders.
• gain and share valuable insights across a broad variety of sustainability topics ranging from climate action, circular economy, holistic steering, and reporting to ethical business practices.
• increase your project management skills and expand your professional network.

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​Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 421623  | Work Area: Information Technology  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.