Managing Consultant

Why This Role Matters?

At ERM, sustainability is our business. As a global sustainability consultancy, we partner with organizations to solve complex sustainability challenges and unlock business value. As a Managing Consultant, you will have the opportunity to lead high-impact client engagements, shape emerging service offerings, strengthen client relationships, and collaborate with specialists across industries and geographies.

Your work will help clients connect packaging and product sustainability with compliance, innovation, cost, operations, supply-chain resilience, brand, and business strategy.

What Your Impact Is:

Success in this role means you will:

• Deliver trusted, decision-useful advice that connects packaging and product sustainability with compliance, innovation, operations, brand, supply chain, and business strategy.
• Own client outcomes and the quality and commercial performance of assigned projects.
• Develop trusted client relationships and convert emerging needs into well-defined consulting opportunities.
• Balance hands-on technical contribution with effective delegation, team leadership, project management, and client management.
• Develop fit-for-purpose strategies, assessments, roadmaps, management systems, and implementation tools.
• Facilitate effective discussions with technical specialists, operational teams, business leaders, and executives.
• Produce concise, decision-useful deliverables for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead medium to large, complex, and multidisciplinary projects across sustainable packaging, product sustainability, circular economy, and product stewardship.
• Help clients translate sustainability commitments and regulatory requirements into actionable packaging, product, materials, compliance, and implementation strategies.
• Advise on packaging optimization, reusable packaging systems, sustainable product design, materials selection, recyclability, recycling systems, life-cycle assessment and carbon-footprint approaches, circularity, extended producer responsibility, environmental certifications, and emerging packaging and product regulations.
• Evaluate technical, environmental, operational, and regulatory tradeoffs and convert findings into clear, business-focused recommendations.
• Manage project scope, budgets, schedules, teams, deliverables, and quality while maintaining strong client relationships and commercial performance.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across sustainability, packaging, product development, engineering, supply chain, procurement, operations, regulatory, legal, and corporate affairs.
• As a senior seller/doer, identify opportunities, develop proposals, support client presentations, expand existing accounts, and help grow ERM’s Packaging and Product Sustainability services.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and collaborate across ERM’s technical communities, industry sectors, and regions to deliver integrated solutions.
• Mentor junior and mid-level consultants and contribute to an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing team.
• Advance ERM methodologies, intellectual capital, and market offerings related to packaging and product sustainability.