Managing Consultant, Sustainable Products, Supply Chain

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About the role

  • Managing Consultant helping organizations turn sustainability and regulatory goals into sustainable product, packaging, circularity, and supply-chain strategies. Leading client projects and growing ERM’s sustainability consulting services.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver trusted, decision-useful advice connecting product sustainability with compliance, innovation, operations, brand, and business strategy
  • Own client outcomes and the quality and commercial performance of assigned projects
  • Grow durable client relationships and convert emerging needs into consulting opportunities
  • Lead medium to large, complex, multidisciplinary projects across product sustainability, circular economy, sustainable packaging, and product stewardship
  • Translate sustainability commitments and regulatory requirements into actionable product, packaging, materials, compliance, and implementation strategies
  • Advise on sustainable product design, materials selection, life-cycle thinking, circularity, packaging optimization, extended producer responsibility, environmental certifications, and emerging product sustainability regulations
  • Manage project scope, budgets, schedules, teams, deliverables, and quality while maintaining client relationships and commercial performance
  • Translate complex technical, regulatory, and operational information into recommendations, executive-ready reports, presentations, and workshops
  • Build relationships with senior client stakeholders across sustainability, product development, engineering, supply chain, procurement, operations, regulatory, and legal functions
  • Identify opportunities, develop proposals, support client presentations, expand existing accounts, and help grow ERM’s Product Sustainability services
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across ERM’s technical communities, industry sectors, and regions
  • Mentor junior and mid-level consultants and contribute to an inclusive, collaborative, high-performing team
  • Advance 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 discipline, or equivalent experience
  • Experience in consulting is a must
  • 4–6 years of relevant experience in sustainability consulting, product sustainability, product stewardship, product environmental compliance, sustainable packaging, circular economy, environmental management, product development, supply chain, or a related field
  • Demonstrated success leading complex projects or significant workstreams, including scope, schedule, budget, team coordination, quality, and client deliverables
  • Ability to interpret complex technical and regulatory information and convert it into practical, business-focused recommendations
  • Strong client-facing, relationship-building, problem-solving, facilitation, report-writing, and presentation skills
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities independently and collaborate effectively with cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams
  • Commitment to high-quality delivery and experience coaching or mentoring colleagues
  • This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship
  • Preferred: advanced degree or relevant professional certification in sustainability, environmental management, engineering, science, business, or project management
  • Preferred: experience leading external consulting engagements and multidisciplinary project teams
  • Preferred: experience in sustainable product or packaging strategy, circular design, EPR and packaging regulations, materials sustainability, life-cycle assessment or life-cycle thinking, product environmental standards, certifications or ecolabels, environmental management systems, product stewardship, sustainability data and claims, or supply-chain sustainability
  • Preferred: experience integrating environmental or sustainability requirements into product-development processes, management systems, or operating models
  • Preferred: experience supporting business development, proposal preparation, client presentations, account growth, or new service development
  • Preferred: experience working with multinational organizations and senior cross-functional stakeholders

Benefits

  • Paid time off (vacation, sick, and floating holidays)
  • Parental leave
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • AD&D insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Bonus pay may be available at ERM’s discretion

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$102,700 - $129,600 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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