Make an impact for the business and the planet
At ERM, your career is an opportunity to make a real difference. We empower driven professionals to shape a more sustainable future, helping the world’s leading organizations tackle their most pressing environmental and social challenges. Here, purpose and impact go hand in hand: you’ll apply your expertise to meaningful work, collaborate with passionate colleagues across the globe, and grow as a leader who drives lasting change for business, society, and the planet.
Our Purpose
At ERM, we exist to shape a sustainable future with the world’s leading organizations. For over 50 years, we’ve partnered with clients to operationalize sustainability, becoming the world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy and recognized leader in EHS and sustainability services. Our deep sector expertise has built trusted partnerships that deliver impact for clients, society, and our business.
Shared Success
ERM fosters a high-performance culture, where Partners share directly in long-term success through competitive compensation, performance-based bonuses, benefits, and equity ownership.
Career-Defining Impact
Becoming an ERM Partner is a milestone that combines technical excellence with leadership, offering the chance to transform challenges into opportunities that create lasting global impact.
Leadership with Purpose
Partners embody our purpose and beliefs, guiding client success and driving meaningful change. Consulting Partners - 93% of our Partnership - collaborate across industries, services, and geographies to maximize sustainability, EHS, and commercial outcomes.
Personal and professional growth
Partnership at ERM represents a pivotal step in personal development. It opens new avenues for ongoing professional, technical, and leadership growth. Partner development begins with a comprehensive onboarding program and a continuous development journey, featuring formal learning opportunities, mentorship, and coaching. We support Partners in cultivating a growth-oriented mindset aligned with the seven capabilities of ERM Partners.
Technical Partners develop and apply specialized technical expertise to consulting services in specific disciplines, creating client impact and evolving services to meet client needs. They drive innovation within technical teams, integrating advanced solutions into projects. Representing 2.5% of the Partner population, Technical Partners, focus more on delivery than sales, although they also identify commercial opportunities.
Strong accountability and empowerment for results
Partners are accountable for leading meaningful, interesting and career-defining work, inspiring our people to create client value and achieve exceptional commercial results. Individual expertise is coupled with a passion for sustainability, and leadership skills that foster meaningful change and create lasting value. Partners carve out their own career journey, taking the initiative to create new business opportunities and deliver projects directly impacting the most material topics of our time.
Our partnership culture is robust, unique and empowers everyone with a voice. Partners enjoy autonomy, influence results and align with collaboratively designed global strategies.
Business Enablement Partners lead the development of best-in-class functional and professional services to support the ERM business. They align with specific disciplines, delivering knowledge-based services, advice, and solutions to internal stakeholders. Business Enablement Partners account for 4.5% of the Partnership, promoting cross-functional collaboration and supporting business objectives and growth.
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