Managing Consultant Climate Risk Assessment and Adaptation

ERM France is looking for a Managing Consultant (from 6 to 9 years of experience approximately) to cover its development on the Adaptation topics (physical and transition climate risk & opportunities).

ERM presentation :

Sustainability is our business.

As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, ERM partners 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.

ERM’s diverse team of 8,000+ world-class experts in over 150 offices in 40 countries and territories combine strategic transformation and technical delivery to help clients operationalize sustainability at pace and scale. ERM calls this capability its “boots to boardroom” approach - a comprehensive service model that helps organizations to accelerate the integration of sustainability into their strategy and operations.

Our clients are at the center of everything we do – whether building business resilience, supporting their transition to a low-carbon future, or enabling progress on environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities.

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.

Together with the world’s leading organizations, we are shaping a more sustainable future.

Missions :

1. Apply quantitative methodologies to climate risk and opportunity assessments, including financial statement analysis, discounted cash flow modelling, cost-benefit analysis, consider in-house ERM tools and also customed analysis.
2. Engage directly with corporate clients, including senior leadership, to provide education on climate-related topics, and present your own analytical work and defend quantitative results.
3. Build templated quantitative methodologies for climate financial risk estimation that can be leveraged on climate projects, with a focus on transition risk.
4. Incorporate a wide range of data sources into your analyses including corporate financial data, geospatial climate data, academic research and industry-specific reports.
5. Support the delivery of client deliverables by working with team members across the business.
6. Upskill the team on French adaptation standards such as ACT.
7. Support in leading more junior staff to drive project execution, upskill staff on the job, and lead by example.
8. Be willing to learn how to integrate financial models into no-code / low-code third party digital platforms.
9. A key aspect of this will be to communicate the findings in a digestible way including developing client curiosity regarding how they start their journey to transitioning to a low carbon economy. Will be required to facilitate workshops and develop relationships with our clients.
10. Support business development and sales-related activities, including helping senior leaders to draft client proposals and develop new offers.
11. Contribute to ERM’s innovation and knowledge-sharing through ad-hoc involvement in thought leadership, internal newsletters, learning sessions, amongst other initiatives.

Profile :

1. You have completed higher education in major engineering schools, business schools, political sciences, or in a university.
2. You have a significant experience of at least 5 years on Climate risk or Adaptation, with some experience in the consulting business.
3. You have a strong appetite for climate and sustainability topics in general and wish to develop further your technical and commercial capacity on this topic.
4. You enjoy teamwork.
5. You are interested in digital solutions dedicated to ESG topics, and have experience with some market players.
6. You can technically support consultants on Corporate Sustainability projects, and be client-facing for project delivery and initial business development.