Dirección ERM is seeking a motivated Corporate Sustainability & Climate Change Consultant, who is interested in participating on a variety of projects, to join our consulting firm in Mexico City. This is an excellent career opportunity to work with an expert consulting team on challenging projects for large industrial and global clients. Access to ERM's national experts provides knowledge sharing of best practices across the industry and ongoing learning opportunities for our team.
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.
Description of role:
This role entails developing ERM’s services across a range of sectors and clients in NLAC working closely with ERM’s other energy and climate change, as well as sustainability technical community leaders in NLAC and more regionally.
The candidate will need to be a thought leader in promoting this technical community amongst various stakeholders in NLAC and more regionally (project developers and government agencies etc.) via participation in seminars, conferences and client events as well as connecting with other experts across ERM.
The candidate will work with ERM’s business development teams and leaders across Asia Pacific to maintain existing client relationships as well as grow new client portfolios in NLAC and more broadly resulting in the growth of ERM’s opportunity pipeline. This will require an individual with good communication skills, client/market understanding and proposal development skills.
Tasks and responsibilities:
- Support the development of ERM's services in Low Carbon Economy Transition (LCET) area, and particularly in Corporate Sustainability and Climate Change practice in Northern Latin America and Caribbean (NLAC), in line with ERM purpose and values through:
- Delivering tasks and specific deliverables or phases of work on projects in multiple countries across NLAC, under the supervision of a project manager.
- Actively contributing to effective project teams through responsiveness to client and project manager requests and proactive suggestions for project delivery.
- Develop consulting skills, obtain understanding of ERM practices, clients and products and services.
- Support development of proposals, marketing, and business development activities.
Requirements:
- Degree (master's is a plus) in a related field (business, finance, economics, sustainability, international development, climate change, public policy).
- Relevant internship or work experience in sustainability, climate change (physical and transition risks), energy or related fields.
- Climate change modelling (downscaling, statistical and/or dynamic models) is a plus.
- Understanding of and interest in global sustainable development and climate change agenda and trends.
- Strong analytical skills, ability to think strategically, analyze and synthesize diverse information and data.
- Ability to communicate ideas clearly and confidently, articulate issues and recommend solutions.
- Strong team player, ability to work collaboratively and effectively with project teams based around the region.
- Self-starter, pro-active, willing to take initiative.
- Strong organization and time management skills, take accountability for own tasks.
- Experience working in multi-cultural teams is a plus.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) in English.
Background:
Since establishing our first local presence in the LAC region in 1990’s, ERM has enjoyed steady growth and today we employee circa 400 employees in the region. We have offices in Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Guyana, and Brazil.
We are committed to the LAC market, and we have been building consulting teams with world-class skills in the areas of environmental, sustainability and social consulting for over 20 years. ERM has a solid client base in the oil and gas, manufacturing and chemical sectors and we have been collaborating very closely with our clients, supporting them through challenging times, as we remain committed to this fascinating sector. Increasingly our clients are investing in the local market and to support their growth needs, ERM is expanding our footprint in this region. We are now looking for a strong client and market leader who shares our passion and commitment to this sector to join us.
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.
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.
If you would like to read more about Diversity, Equity, Equality & Inclusion (DE&I) at ERM, you can visit
our website
, or read about our progress in the 2023 Sustainability Report
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