Principal Consultant (CL4) – Digital Services, EHS&S Management Information Systems
Shape the future of digital sustainability at enterprise scale.
At ERM, Digital Services sits at the intersection of technology, sustainability, and business transformation. As a Principal Consultant (CL4), this role is designed for a senior leader who thrives on solving complex challenges, influencing executive stakeholders, and scaling digital solutions that deliver measurable environmental, health, safety, and operational impact across global organizations.
This is not a role for incremental change. It is for a practitioner‑leader ready to drive growth, influence strategy, and leave a visible mark on ERM’s Digital Services business and the clients it serves.
Why This Role Matters
Organizations across industries are under increasing pressure to digitize EHS&S processes, comply with evolving regulations, and produce trusted data for decision‑making and reporting. ERM’s Digital Services team helps clients meet these challenges through EHS&S Management Information Systems (MIS) and integrated digital solutions.
As a Principal Consultant, this role is central to that mission—setting technical direction, leading critical programs, expanding client relationships, and enabling profitable growth. The impact extends beyond individual projects, shaping how ERM delivers digital value globally.
What Your Impact Is
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders on EHS&S digital strategy and transformation
- Lead complex, high‑profile EHS&S MIS programs from strategy through implementation and optimization
- Drive double‑digit profitable growth by blending technical excellence with business development leadership
- Strengthen ERM’s Digital Services offerings through innovation, thought leadership, and delivery excellence
- Build and inspire high‑performing teams while mentoring the next generation of digital leaders
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a senior practitioner on Digital Services engagements, with a focus on EHS&S Management Information Systems, developing strategies that align technology with client processes and regulatory needs
- Provide technical thought leadership and program oversight for complex, multi‑workstream initiatives, ensuring delivery against scope, budget, schedule, and quality expectations
- Serve as a core member of the Digital Services technical leadership team, supporting EHS&S MIS software selection, system implementation, integrations, training, rollout, support, and continuous improvement
- Operate as a seller–doer, leading or contributing to technical proposals, identifying new opportunities, and expanding relationships with existing and new clients
- Support pre-sales team on RFP preparation with the client engagement, scope of work, timeline plan and high-level project plan.
- Evaluate EHS&S software systems available on the market, including assisting clients with system requirements and system selection. Provide advice on different EHS&S software systems in response to specific data, organizational and operational requirements.
- Leverage delivery excellence to generate repeat business and expand ERM’s market presence in Digital Services
- Lead, mentor, and inspire consultants and project teams, supporting performance, engagement, and professional growth
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of Sphera Solutions methodology, principles, theories, concepts and techniques.
- Engage in all life cycle stages of project execution; provide support and enhancement to Sphera platforms and solutions as required to meet the overall business objectives of clients.
- Analyze user requirements, prepare requirements document, as-is & to-be processes and identify gaps.
- Collaborate with clients to develop/refine implementation strategy and on-going testing needs.
- Prepare test plans, conduct testing validation, and support user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Assist with Sphera system configuration, integration, training, rollout, support, maintenance, and improvements.
- Lead consultant teams that configure/deploy Sphera EHS&S solutions; specific activities include publishing system design documents, configuring components within the solution, analyzing/migrating data, and specifying custom reports/dashboards and automated interfaces.
- Provide knowledge transfer enablement through formal documentation and end-user training. Engage in system support and training documentation teams, prepare and present training to internal consultants and client system users.
What You’ll Bring
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field
- 10-12+ years of relevant consulting or industry experience, including leadership of complex digital or EHS&S initiatives
- Demonstrated experience delivering EHS&S Management Information Systems in client‑facing roles
- Proven ability to engage senior client stakeholders as a trusted advisor
- Strong experience supporting or leading business development and technical proposals
- Experience in implementation and use of Sphera solutions.
- Experience with a minimum of three full life-cycle implementations including all phases
- Strong Oil & Gas, Mining, and Chemical business and market knowledge
- Commercial acumen and drive – track record of customer relations, business development and proposal management
- Project delivery skills – track record of technical delivery success to scope and budget
- Experience leading multidisciplinary, geographically distributed teams
Preferred
- Master’s degree in a relevant technical or business discipline
- Hands‑on experience with leading EHS&S platforms (e.g., Enablon, Sphera, Intelex, VelocityEHS, Benchmark ESG, or similar)
- Experience integrating EHS&S systems with enterprise platforms such as ERP, HR, operations, or analytics tools
- Track record of expanding strategic client accounts and driving sustained revenue growth
Why ERM
ERM is the world’s largest pure‑play sustainability consultancy. Joining Digital Services at ERM means working alongside senior leaders, global experts, and innovative technologists to help organizations operate more safely, sustainably, and intelligently. This role offers the opportunity to lead at scale, influence outcomes that matter, and grow a lasting consulting legacy.
