Consulting Senior Associate, CS&CC

ERM; New Delhi; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

ERM is the world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy with over 50 years of experience helping organisations address environmental, social, and governance challenges. Our Consulting Delivery Hub (CDH) in India enables scalable, high-quality delivery across regions.

As a Consulting Senior Associate in CS&CC, you will conduct technical research, perform quantitative analysis, and deliver client-ready reports and models.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree in climate change/environmental management or a related subject with modules/work experience.
• 1-3 years’ experience in environmental consulting or similar.
• Keen interest in sustainability topics with flexibility across subjects.

Responsibilities

• Conduct technical research, data analysis, and benchmarking to support sustainability and ESG projects.
• Support client engagements by delivering high-quality reports, presentations, models, and deliverables on schedule.
• Collect, validate, and interpret quantitative and qualitative data to derive actionable insights.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary and global project teams to ensure consistent execution.
• Assist in stakeholder engagement activities, including workshops and client meetings, and document findings.
• Contribute to proposals, opportunity research, and business development activities.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Research

Teamwork

Communication

MS Office

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Python

AWS

Azure

WebUI

Job description

Consulting Senior Associate, CS&CCPlease Note: This website uses cookies to provide an enhanced candidate experience. By continuing to use this website you consent to the use of cookies# Careers## Consulting Senior Associate, CS&CCApply: New Delhi, India: Bangalore, India: Full time: Posted Today: End Date: November 30, 2026 (17 days left to apply): R00032708**ERM** is the world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy, with over 50 years of experience helping organizations navigate complex environmental, social, and governance challenges. We bring together a global community of experts to deliver meaningful impact for our clients and the planet. Our **Consulting Delivery Hub** (CDH) in India is a critical part of ERM’s global consulting model enabling scalable, high-quality delivery across regions and service lines. CDH teams work in close partnership with regional consultants to support global client projects, providing specialist expertise, driving consistency, and enhancing delivery efficiency across our most important programmes. As part of the Consulting Delivery Hub, you will collaborate with colleagues worldwide, contribute to complex sustainability projects, and play a key role in shaping the future of global consulting delivery. **Why this role matters?** As a **Consulting Senior Associate**, you will support ERM’s global consulting delivery through the innovative, high impact projects on a range of issues related to energy, decarbonization and climate change, working within the Corporate Sustainability and Climate Change (CS&CC) team. **What your impact is?*** Carry out research and quantitative analysis in areas including (but not all of) industrial decarbonization, low carbon fuels and chemicals, low carbon transportation, electricity networks and systems modelling, GHG planning and strategy, ESG and climate risk assessments:* Support in delivering projects across the CS&CC team* Build a network within the global CS&CC team **What will you bring?*** Relevant degree in climate change/environmental management or in a similar subject (e.g. science, engineering, economics), or related degree with relevant modules/work experience* 1-3 years’ experience in environmental consulting or similar* Keen interest in applicable sustainability topics with a flexible open-minded approach to working across a variety of sustainability subjects. Skills and knowledge required in topics from the following:* **Low Corbon Industry**: Carbon Capture Utilisation & Storage, Green steel/cement, energy from waste, Greenhouse Gas Removals (GGR), Industrial Clusters,* **Low Carbon Fuels and Chemicals**: Sustainable Chemicals, low carbon fuels, LCA/GHG/Net Zero, Sustainability Standards/Certification, Policy* **Networks & Energy Systems**: Future energy scenario modelling, Smart meter data, Electricity Generation & Dispatch, Software Development (Python/dbase/webUI), Cloud Deployment (AWS/Azure)* **Heat Networks*** **Transport**: Road and non-road Transport, EV charging & Batteries, Fleet Decarb* **GHG Planning & Strategy**: Scopes 1-3, avoided emissions, product emissions, GHG Target Setting incl SBTi, CBAM, Decarb/'transition' plans and roadmaps* **Strategy**: ESG reporting & disclosures* **Resilience**: Climate risk assessment, Resilience assessments, Transition risk assessments* Ability to work in groups and teams collaboratively – noting that the project teams will likely be dispersed globally* Ability to multitask – managing different deadlines and delivery types simultaneously* Confident spoken and presentation communication skills with demonstrable experience in producing client ready deliverables including written work* Active commercial outlook – supporting the sales team in business development* Proficiency in MS Office (mainly Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook; Copilot etc).* Good Excel capabilities with the ability to build complex tools and a willingness and ability to upskill as needed **Preferred qualifications, skills and competencies*** Experience of managing small and mid-sized projects if available* Comfort in working within a commercial consulting environment, working to client expectations* Ability to carry out analytical assessments and scenario modelling* Comfortable with using and manipulating large quantitative datasets, including conversions and calculations* Good technical writing skills and ability to synthesize reports to a high standard (ideally, we would like you to share a piece of written work as part of the interview process so we can assess this)* Confidence in working with AI tools as a thought partner in project execution, and appreciation of inherent limitations* Relevant certifications or advanced qualifications **Key responsibilities*** Conduct technical research, data analysis, and benchmarking studies to support sustainability, decarbonization, climate change, environmental, and ESG consulting projects.* Support the delivery of client engagements by preparing high-quality reports, presentations, models, and other project deliverables within agreed timelines.* Collect, validate, and interpret quantitative and qualitative data to develop actionable insights and recommendations for clients.* Collaborate with multidisciplinary and global project teams to ensure consistent, high-quality project execution and knowledge sharing.* Assist in stakeholder engagement activities, including workshops, interviews, and client meetings, and document key findings and outcomes.* Contribute to proposal development, opportunity research, and other business development activities to support growth initiatives.* Support the development and maintenance of tools, templates, methodologies, and knowledge management resources.* Stay informed on emerging industry trends, regulations, standards, and best practices relevant to sustainability and consulting services.