Partner, Corporate Sustainability & Climate Change (Partner Level)
Full Time
Irvine, CA
Posted
Job description
ERM is a global consulting firm, in the business of sustainability since 1971. We partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunities for future generations.
ERM, as the world’s leading sustainability consultancy, is uniquely qualified to advise companies on risk assessments, strategy, disclosure, investor demands, and the transition to a lower carbon economy. Our global Corporate Sustainability & Climate Change (CS&CC) practice is a clear market leader, providing highly innovative advisory services from Board engagement to operationalizing sustainability and across our client’s business. Our team provides strategic advice to clients, including conducting materiality assessments, setting ambitious goals, embedding ESG into business strategy and disclosing through reporting and responding to investor inquiries. With a target of reaching $50 million in sales by 2023 in North America, ERM’s CS&CC practice is one of the fastest growing in a business with annual double-digit growth.
As part of the continued growth and innovation of our CS&CC team, ERM has an opportunity for an experienced leader to join our global consulting firm as a CS&CC Partner (Water Stewardship) and become a true owner and shareholder in a business with sustainability at its heart. We will consider strong candidates in geographies throughout the United States, with specific interest in major metropolitan areas.
The Role
As a CS&CC Partner, you will design, develop, implement, and manage organizational sustainability programs for our technology, media, and telecommunication (TMT) sector clients. In this role, you will partner with the world’s largest, most exciting and innovative TMT clients to assess sustainability and water-related risk and resilience. You will have access to leaders at these companies that will value your expertise and ERM’s outstanding global team of experts.
A highly organized leader who is a strong communicator and influencer will flourish in this role. A candidate with strong sustainability and water stewardship experience will assume a pivotal role in shaping a growing CS&CC practice. In this position, you will provide intelligent and sustainable water stewardship strategies and programs that foster strategic operational processes, reduce risks, and deliver efficiencies. We seek individuals to help us drive the continued growth of ERM’s business through selling and delivering world-class services, recruiting and developing our next generation of leaders, and further advancing our reputation for sustainable solutions.
Our Partnership Model Offers Unparalleled Opportunities For Leaders With Ambition, Vision And Proven Expertise
This is a Partner-level opportunity for a Principal/Director/VP-level professional looking to further their career with an equity stake in a global company that leads the field in sustainability consulting. A career as an ERM Partner is unique. Our partnership model offers unparalleled opportunities for leaders with ambition, vision, and proven expertise, providing:
- The opportunity to contribute significantly to key decisions, including the overall strategic direction of our organization.
- Meaningful equity ownership with significant financial and other rewards.
- The ability to provide “thought leadership” on a wide range of technical and business issues affecting our core markets.
- An extension of ERM’s market position and reach with your established relationships and client base to further drive our growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Primary focus on client relationship development, sales, and delivery of the full spectrum of ERM’s consulting services to deliver strategic value to our clients across the TMT sector. In particular, play a key role in growing ERM’s CS&CC service offering across its broad portfolio of services:
- Set Strategic Direction: by understanding their changing business context for sustainability, engaging their leaders (including the Board, C-suite and operational management) in defining the case for change, and setting new direction with strong and integrated sustainability strategy.
- Disclose Effectively: using proven methodologies for assessing materiality and driving robust reporting (e.g., GRI, SASB, IIRC) and a strategic framework to respond to investor surveys (e.g., CDP, DJSI, MSCI, Sustainalytics, ISS). We also offer specialist scenario analysis support to help meet growing investor demand for disclosure around climate change, using frameworks such as TCFD.
- Implement Change: leveraging ERM’s business process transformation capability, digital solutions, and deep subject matter expertise. We combine proven processes and systems with advanced technology and experienced professionals to help clients integrate ESG into the fabric of their organizations to drive continuous improvement and unlock business value.
- Actively develop commercial strategies to pursue and win new business opportunities that result in revenue growth with target clients aligned with ERM’s global strategy of focusing on the world’s leading organizations as part of a high functioning, dynamic team.
- Ability and willingness to listen to clients to truly understand their needs, and then co-develop novel solutions to address these needs.
- Build, grow, and manage a high-performance team, serving as a leader and mentor to consultants. Identify emerging talent and work with them to reach their full potential; ensure rising stars are nurtured, developed, and given new areas of responsibility.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Relevant academic background in water, sustainability, engineering, environmental management, environmental policy, or related degree.
- 15+ years of progressive related professional and team supervisory experience in a consulting or industry environment, working substantially with private sector clients.
- Detailed knowledge of corporate water management and stewardship.
- Passionate about sustainability and possess substantial experience in developing and delivering world-class programs and solutions.
- In-depth understanding of TMT companies, including existing relationships that can be leveraged into new business.
- Demonstrable record of accomplishment in delivering multimillion-dollar sales results annually, including successfully winning large and strategic projects.
The typical hiring range for this role is [$150,000 to $200,000]. This is the typical hiring range we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. This job is also eligible for bonus pay.
We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and any other benefits to eligible employees.
You can apply for this role through
https://www.erm.com/careers/apply/
or through the internal careers portal if you are a current employee.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
Who We Are:
As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.
At ERM we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients. Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.
Please submit your resume and brief cover letter.
ERM does not accept recruiting agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, ERM employees or any other company location. ERM is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Thank you for your interest in ERM!
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