Managing Consultant - London, United Kingdom - Environmental Resources Management (ERM)

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Managing Consultant - Climate Change and Net Zero (Mid-Senior Level)

Managing Consultant – Net Zero - Heavy Industry

The Role

Due to significant growth in demand for our corporate GHG accounting, reporting and emissions reduction services, there is an opportunity for an enthusiastic, experienced individual to join our climate change consultancy team,, focussing on the heavy industry sector.

The successful candidate will join our multidisciplinary team, supporting ERM's client organisations on a range of challenges related to energy and climate change, including, but not limited to:

• Accounting of greenhouse gas emissions (scopes 1, 2 and 3 emissions), including developing greenhouse gas inventories for heavy industry and hard to abate sectors aligned with industry best practice
• Identifying technological and strategic GHG reduction opportunities in company operations and the value chain and integrating these into strategic roadmaps for climate action
• Reporting climate performance in annual sustainability reports and CDP disclosures.
• Embedding climate change within risk management frameworks and strategy planning and implementation
• Physical climate change and low carbon transition risk assessments, including alignment to the TCFD recommendations
• Helping engage and build governance capacity from the board, through executive management teams down to the 'shop floor'.

Our role as consultant is to help our clients to achieve their sustainable development objectives, and to manage their related business risks and opportunities effectively.

The team interacts continually with ERM's other practice areas, and in particular the successful candidate will work closely with the rest of the climate change team, with the opportunity to assist clients in areas such as: sustainability strategy; environmental and social impact assessment; transactional due diligence; EHS performance management and assurance; and risk management, to deliver value-added services to ERM's international client base.

Role and key responsibilities

As a Net Zero Managing Consultant at ERM, you will play a pivotal role in assisting organisations in their journey towards achieving net-zero emissions. You will provide strategic guidance, technical expertise and innovative solutions to help clients reduce their emissions and contribute to a more sustainable future. Projects typically extend across Net Zero strategy, GHG inventories and decarbonisation strategies, and for the right individual this offers the chance to act as a go-to advisor to ERM's key clients. What you can expect from the role:

• We will offer the opportunity to act as a project manager, acting as the focal point for our work with clients, particularly across corporate sectors. Working in collaboration with a Partner in Charge, you would act as the day-to-day contact and coordinator of our work, leading teams and delivering proposals and project deliverables to clients.
• Leading the analysis of carbon emissions from multiple perspectives such as understanding carbon emissions impact, target setting (SBTI), using/applying various digital platforms, developing emissions reduction roadmap, preparing Net Zero strategies, and helping the client implementing these within their organisation.
• Supporting and ensuring that the outputs enable our clients to meet assessment and disclosure needs;
• Overseeing the preparation of reports, workshop materials, presentations, and technical summaries, including managing project delivery of more junior members of staff; and
• Leading and supporting partners and teams to develop proposals, including for clients across a wide range of sectors.

CORE SKILLS

Technical knowledge

• Relevant technical degree or 5+ years' experience in environmental consulting / climate change / related industry position.
• Specific sector experience in heavy industry would be an advantage, as would experience of high-impact/high complexity industries to bring a broader knowledge to the team.
• Strong experience and detailed technical knowledge of GHG accounting and reporting principles, mechanisms, methodologies and schemes, e.g. GHG Protocol, SECR, SBTi, EEIO etc.
• Able to proactively identify and suggest suitable methodologies to address client problems, and articulate why they are the preferred method both internally and to clients.
• Good awareness / appreciation of:
  • Climate legislation and the drivers for our clients taking action.
  • Management systems.
  • MACC analysis / economic analysis of GHG/energy reductions.
  • Links between energy and climate change.

Technical skills

• Proficiency in using MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Strong Excel capabilities – advanced functionality and the ability to build complex tools, with the willingness and ability to further upskill.
• Experience of data manipulation and visualisation tools in addition to Excel would be an advantage.
• Experience of managing large projects and programmes.
• Efficient and effective project planning (i.e. managing work and deliverables; resourcing and budgeting; delegating and managing a team).
• Ability to manage/deliver multiple projects/tasks in parallel with different requirements and timelines.
• Business development/proposal writing experience.
• Highly numerate and comfortable with large datasets including conversions and calculations.
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills.
• Excellent technical writing skills and ability to synthesise reports to a very high standard.

Characteristics and soft skills

• Excellent time management skills.
• Evidence of client exposure; good client communication skills, i.e. confident being in meetings without more senior consultants.
• Mentoring / people management skills – demonstrates strong people management skills to achieve results.
• Collaborates internally to bring our services to existing clients.
• Bright and with clear passion/drive to be in this field.
• Adaptable, committed and dependable team player.
• Both logical and lateral thinking.
• Problem solving – the ability to think something through and discuss possible solutions rather than just focusing on the problem.
• Well organised.
• Willing to learn and take on feedback.
• Confident and reliable when working independently.
• Approachable, responsive and inquisitive.
• Takes pride in their work and delivers outputs to a high standard.
• Proactive, self-motivated and generally enthusiastic.

ERM care about our people, their safety and career development as well as their well-beings. We offer all our employees a diverse and inclusive culture in which difference is embraced, valued and celebrated. We offer flexible working environment to accommodate our personal needs including hybrid / home working. Our people are respectful and open-minded and enjoy collaboration with colleagues across services lines and geographies.

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About Us

ERM is a leading global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk, social consulting services and sustainability related services. We work with the world's leading organizations, delivering innovative solutions and helping them to understand and manage their sustainability challenges. To do this, we have more than 5,500 people in over 40 countries and territories working out of more than 160 offices.

For nearly 50 years we have been working with clients around the world and in diverse industry sectors to help them to understand and manage their environmental, health, safety, risk and social impacts. The key sectors we serve include Oil & Gas, Mining, Power, and Manufacturing, Chemical and Pharmaceutical. All face critical sustainability challenges and our clients in these and many other areas rely on our ability to assist them operate more sustainably which has a positive impact on our planet.

"The business of sustainability" reflects what we do to support our clients as they strive to attain their business goals. Sustainability and business are now inextricably linked and as an expert in sustainability, we play a role in helping companies achieve their objectives with an understanding of how this impacts wider society and the environment. We intend to contribute even more to the global dialogue on sustainability and expect our work on sustainability challenges and opportunities to deliver growth in our business. Sustainability is our business.

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