Job Summary
We are seeking a motivated and experienced individual to join our corporate sustainability and climate change (CS&CC) team as a Principal Consultant, focusing on mandatory and voluntary sustainability strategy, implementation and disclosures.
Why This Role Matters
From climate change to nature and human rights, there is increasing urgency in company boardrooms to address the complex sustainability challenges facing the world. Executives are under pressure from investors, customers, and even employees to increase the pace, scale and transparency of their sustainability-related actions. This is where ERM drives value. Our CS&CC team works with leading organisations to address complex sustainability challenges and create long-term value by clarifying strategic direction, driving organisational change, and enhancing transparency and the robustness of public sustainability-related disclosures.
What Your Impact Is
Our Principal Consultants provide leadership in consulting projects, helping to ensure quality delivery of service. They manage complex large projects or a portfolio of smaller projects and are accountable for the project budget, performance and results, risk management and governance. They also support revenue generation through identification and conversion of new client opportunities in line with evolving services and client needs.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide deep expertise in mandatory and voluntary sustainability strategy and reporting, with expertise across materiality and strategy setting, transition planning and systems implementation, and disclosure preparation.
* Deliver practical understanding of climate risk and opportunity identification, assessment, and resilience strategy.
* Demonstrate deep experience guiding organisations through AASB S2, and ideally have worked with voluntary sustainability strategy setting and reporting frameworks such as ISSB S1, GRI, SASB.
* Work comfortably within a diverse range of multi‐discipline programmatic project structures, collaborating with internal SMEs to navigate the complexity of sustainability strategies and mandatory climate reporting.
* Build strong client relationships and quickly establish trust with internal and external stakeholders.
* Lead effectively through the project lifecycle, including scoping, budgeting, and delivery, incorporating all project accounting fundamentals.
* Think strategically to influence decision‐makers and outcomes.
* Use strong analytical skills, excellent writing and presentation skills, extensive stakeholder engagement, and mastery of impactful board‐level communication.
* Communicate and facilitate effective client engagements at the executive level.
* Show strong people‐management skills, supporting, coaching, and celebrating others to advance employee engagement and achieve results.
* Mentor junior staff in planning and execution of projects and in directing or conducting independent technical reviews of deliverable work products.
* Break down complex problems into discrete tasks and communicate them effectively to a diverse range of technical specialists.
* Manage a team of junior project managers and consultants.
* Identify, evaluate, cultivate, and manage partnerships and relationships with senior clients, external stakeholders, and key opinion leaders.
* Collaborate internally to extend services to existing clients.
* Enhance ERM's capability to sell and deliver Corporate Sustainability & Climate Change services.
* Show the ability to seek out and win new client opportunities, lead complex bids, and prepare winning proposals and pitch documents.
* Support new business development campaigns and thought‐leadership initiatives.
Requirements
* Education: A bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
* Technical: 10+ years of experience in sustainability or a directly related field (most recently at Project Director level) with the ability to provide case studies as evidence.
* Business development: Strong track record of preparing bids, developing business cases, and winning competitive projects.
* Team leadership: Proven people leadership and management skills, including experience of line management and/or contributing to the professional development of others.
* Enthusiasm, initiative, flexibility, and a desire to work in a growing team, and an ability to work in an entrepreneurial environment.
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