Product Sustainability, Managing Consultant

ERM; New Delhi; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

ERM is expanding its Consulting Delivery Hub in India and seeks a Managing Consultant to lead product sustainability efforts, ensuring globally compliant product safety information and regulatory adherence across regions. You will mentor teams and drive quality in safety data and documentation.

You will collaborate with Product Stewardship, EHS, R&D, supply chain and legal to translate regulations into practical actions, while advancing data governance and continuous improvement in safety

Qualifications

• 7–12 years of relevant experience in Product Sustainability, Product Safety, or regulatory compliance.
• Experience leading SDS/product safety documentation and peer reviews.
• Strong knowledge of UN GHS and EU CLP regulations and hazard communication.
• Hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA and SAP EHS.
• Ability to translate regulatory changes into practical actions for teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead SDS authoring, review and maintenance across products and regions with regulatory compliance.
• Perform and review advanced hazard classifications using UN GHS and EU CLP.
• Act as SME for SAP S/4HANA and SAP EHS data governance and quality controls.
• Interpret regulatory changes and translate them into SDS and labeling implications.
• Lead complex product safety and regulatory queries with global stakeholders.
• Provide technical guidance and peer review to strengthen team capabilities.
• Partner with Product Stewardship, EHS, R&D, supply chain and legal to support compliant products.
• Drive data quality, audit readiness and SAP EHS enhancements and testing.
• Support regulatory submissions, notifications and compliant documentation as needed.

Skills

SDS authoring

Regulatory compliance

UN GHS/EU CLP

Stakeholder management

Analytical reasoning

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemistry/Related field

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SAP EHS

Job description

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 Managing Consultant - Product Sustainability, you will support ERM’s global Product Sustainability delivery by providing senior-level expertise in product safety, hazard communication, and regulatory compliance. Working closely with global Product Stewardship, EHS, R&D, Supply Chain, Legal, and business stakeholders, you will ensure accurate product safety information, regulatory compliance, and high-quality delivery across regions. This role is critical in maintaining data integrity, supporting compliant product commercialization, and driving consistency, efficiency, and continuous improvement across ERM’s global product sustainability services.

What your impact is?

Lead complex Safety Data Sheet (SDS) authoring, reviews, and hazard classification activities, ensuring globally compliant product safety documentation.
Interpret and apply global product safety and chemical regulations, supporting compliance across multiple regions and markets.
Drive data quality, governance, and audit readiness within product safety systems, ensuring accurate and reliable regulatory information.
Serve as a subject matter expert by providing technical guidance and mentoring team members on product stewardship and compliance requirements.
Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to resolve complex product safety challenges and implement continuous process improvements.

What will you bring?

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemistry, Chemical Sciences, Toxicology, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science or a related scientific discipline;
• 7‑12 years of relevant experience in Product Sustainability, Product Safety, Product Stewardship, Hazard Communication, EHS or chemical regulatory compliance, including experience handling complex global product-safety work;
• Strong hands‑on knowledge of SAP S/4HANA and SAP EHS, including CG* transactions and product-safety data management;
• Strong knowledge of UN GHS and EU CLP regulations, with demonstrated experience applying classification and hazard-communication requirements to substances and mixtures;
• Experience creating and governing SDS/product safety documentation and performing senior‑level quality or peer reviews;
• Strong analytical judgement, stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex regulatory topics to non-specialists and work effectively across global teams.

Preferred qualifications, skills & competencies

• Knowledge of dangerous goods regulations, including IATA, ADR, RID, ADN, IMDG and US 49 CFR.
• Broader knowledge of chemical/product regulations such as REACH, TSCA, RoHS, OSHA HazCom or regional equivalents.
• Experience with regulatory notifications/submissions, multilingual SDS/label governance, SAP EHS implementation/enhancement projects, compliance reporting or system testing.
• Experience coaching or mentoring junior colleagues in product safety, regulatory or SAP EHS processes.

Key responsibilities

• Lead complex SDS authoring, review and maintenance activities across products and regions, ensuring scientific accuracy, regulatory compliance and consistent hazard communication.
• Perform and review advanced substance and mixture hazard classifications using UN GHS and EU CLP principles, resolving complex or ambiguous classification cases and documenting the technical rationale.
• Act as a subject-matter expert for SAP S/4HANA and SAP EHS product safety processes, including relevant CG* transactions, data governance, troubleshooting and quality controls.
• Interpret regulatory changes and translate them into practical impacts for SDS, classifications, labels, SAP EHS data, procedures and stakeholder actions.
• Lead complex product safety and regulatory queries, coordinating inputs from global stakeholders and ensuring clear, defensible and timely responses.
• Provide technical guidance and peer review to specialists, promoting consistent standards, strong documentation practices and capability development across the team.
• Partner with Product Stewardship, EHS, R&D/technical, supply chain, legal and business stakeholders to support compliant products, launches and business continuity.
• Drive data-quality, audit-readiness and continuous-improvement initiatives, including SAP EHS enhancements, UAT/regression testing, reporting, templates and workflow improvements.
• Support or lead regulatory submissions, notifications and compliance documentation where required, maintaining complete and traceable records.

At ERM, sustainability is our business. We are the world's largest advisory firm focused solely on sustainability, offering unparalleled expertise across business and finance. ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, through our unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities. Our diverse global team of experts works with the world’s leading organizations to help them set clear sustainability targets, measure progress and operationalize strategy through deep implementation and business transformation.

Every one of us firmly believes in the potential to create value for our clients through an integrated approach to sustainability (because we have personally seen it and professionally achieved it). Our team members are passionate about client service. We work closely with our clients to help them operationalize their sustainability goals and meet their environmental, health and safety objectives while advancing ERM’s purpose through delivering tangible progress in what the United Nations coined The Decade of Action. Organizing our people across globally integrated communities of technical and strategic talent positions ERM to be a \"boots to boardroom\" leader in bringing that value creation to our clients, partners, and the world. We recruit exceptional professionals with a personal and professional passion for sustainability and nurture them to even greater success as specialists. We prepare our consultants to bring integrated, innovative and sustainable solutions to our clients and provide opportunities for ongoing development across a variety of subject areas related to technical, business, and personal growth. At ERM, effort pays off and becomes career defining work that leaves a positive imprint on our planet.