Managing Consultant, Private Markets Sustainability & Decarbonization (Senior Level)

ERM is seeking a Managing Consultant, Private Markets Sustainability & Decarbonization to join our team. At ERM we are committed to supporting our private markets investor clients as they look to decarbonize their portfolio companies and drive growth via sustainability value creation levers. Our private markets value creation team is currently going through a period of significant growth in the market while also servicing an existing large base private equity and infrastructure investor clients. Consultants in the Private Markets value creation team work on a wide range of interesting strategic and operational projects at portfolio company level for private markets investor clients. This person will partner across ERM’s industry teams and lines of business to develop innovative sustainability & decarbonization solutions that meet the needs of both portfolio companies and General Partner goals, investment outcomes and programs.

The incoming consultant will be expected to deliver projects and build relationships with current and new clients in the private market’s investor space. As a consultant, you will manage projects, motivate staff at all levels and contribute to the achievement of ERM’s delivery of sustainability & decarbonization strategy development and implementation projects.

ERM has enduring values, which are fundamental to our business conduct. We are passionate about our people, their safety, well-being and development. ERMers take accountability, are client-focused, and collaborate with colleagues across geographies. If you share our values, believe in sustainability and are motivated by opportunities to shape, build and run a sustainability service team that makes a real impact to our private market’s investor client’s businesses, ERM is the right place for you.

As a project manager in your industry, you have developed an in-depth knowledge of private equity and infrastructure investors and portfolio operations teams. You have experience supporting and leading strategic engagements at the C-suite level and partnering, guiding & educating senior management teams on interpreting and creating action plans around the development of strategy development & quantified implementation roadmaps and setting credible financial targets from sustainability & decarbonization projects. You will have a deep understanding of commercial and operational value creation levers, corporate strategy, market sizing, operational efficiency measures, low carbon solutions, solutions, industrial decarbonization, and sustainable value chain initiatives.

You have prior experience managing and successfully delivering corporate strategy programs for mid-market companies and understand how those operational projects fit within private equity and infrastructure clients’ sustainability & decarbonization programs, targets, and broader investment processes as well as energy transition & impact fund investor needs. You enjoy building, coaching, and mentoring collaborative teams as part of a large global business. This role will work across ERM and the firm’s sustainability & climate functions which brings together senior consultants and executives across all climate and sustainability disciplines to deliver leading operating capabilities and insights to our clients’ portfolio companies. This individual be a core member within a team of sustainability, investment banking, sustainability-focused go-to-market professionals, energy transition investing, and corporate strategy experts.  

The ideal candidate will have a track record in private equity value creation program implementation, broader post-investment corporate strategy, market sizing, and pricing engagements for private markets investors and project delivery for private equity and infrastructure investment, and operating teams, and portfolio company management.   

The successful applicants will be expected to:

• Have 4+ years (7 years preferred) of experience working in private markets space either as a consultant or in industry.
• Support delivery of our client’s sustainability & decarbonization projects within ERM’s portfolio company portfolio operations services working alongside our clients’ sustainability, commercial, and operating teams, and portfolio company management teams to help them develop sustainability, decarbonization & energy transition fund plans & programs, measure and improve against the full suite of sustainability metrics & targets, and aggregate performance improvements as part of exit preparation.
• Work with our clients’ ESG, investment, and operating teams and portfolio company senior management to design and execute post-investment sustainability & decarbonization v