Managing Consultant, Product Sustainability

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +6 more locations.

📋 Description

• Provide reliable, decision-oriented guidance that links product sustainability with compliance, innovation, operations, branding, and overall business strategy.

• Take responsibility for client outcomes as well as the quality and commercial success of the projects assigned to you.

• Foster lasting client relationships and transform emerging needs into consulting opportunities.

• Manage medium to large-scale, intricate, multidisciplinary projects that focus on product sustainability, circular economy, sustainable packaging, and product stewardship.

• Convert sustainability commitments and regulatory mandates into actionable strategies for products, packaging, materials, compliance, and implementation.

• Offer expertise in sustainable product design, material selection, life-cycle analysis, circularity, packaging optimization, extended producer responsibility, environmental certifications, and evolving product sustainability regulations.

• Oversee project scope, budgets, schedules, teams, deliverables, and quality while nurturing client relationships and commercial success.

• Distill complex technical, regulatory, and operational data into actionable recommendations, executive-ready reports, presentations, and workshops.

• Establish trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders across sustainability, product development, engineering, supply chain, procurement, operations, regulatory, and legal sectors.

• Identify new opportunities, create proposals, assist in client presentations, expand existing accounts, and contribute to the growth of ERM’s Product Sustainability services.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and collaborate across ERM’s technical communities, industry sectors, and geographical regions.

• Mentor junior and mid-level consultants while contributing to a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing team.

• Enhance ERM methodologies, intellectual capital, and market offerings related to product sustainability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, sustainability, engineering, chemistry, materials science, biology, business, supply chain, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Consulting experience is essential.

• 4–6 years of pertinent experience in sustainability consulting, product sustainability, product stewardship, product environmental compliance, sustainable packaging, circular economy, environmental management, product development, supply chain, or a similar area.

• Proven track record of successfully leading complex projects or significant workstreams, including scope, schedule, budget, team coordination, quality, and client deliverables.

• Ability to understand intricate technical and regulatory information and translate it into actionable, business-driven recommendations.

• Excellent client-facing, relationship-building, problem-solving, facilitation, report-writing, and presentation skills.

• Capability to manage multiple priorities independently and collaborate effectively with cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams.

• Commitment to high-quality delivery and experience in coaching or mentoring colleagues.

• This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

• An advanced degree or relevant professional certification is preferred.

• Experience in leading external consulting engagements and multidisciplinary project teams is preferred.

• Background in sustainable product or packaging strategy, circular design, EPR and packaging regulations, materials sustainability, life-cycle assessment or thinking, product environmental standards/certifications/ecolabels, environmental management systems, product stewardship, sustainability data and claims, or supply-chain sustainability is preferred.

• Experience in integrating environmental or sustainability requirements into product development processes, management systems, or operating models is preferred.

• Experience supporting business development, proposal writing, client presentations, account growth, or new service development is preferred.

• Experience with multinational organizations and senior cross-functional stakeholders is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, sick leave, and floating holidays).

• Parental leave.

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Disability insurance.

• AD&D insurance.

• 401(k) plan.

• Bonus pay may be available at ERM’s discretion for eligible employees.

• A diverse, collaborative, and high-performing team environment.