Project Manager, CSRD Reporting & Disclosure Readiness

ERM is hiring a Project Manager, CSRD Reporting & Disclosure Readiness to support a large multinational organization’s CSRD readiness and reporting program remotely base in the Eastern time zone. This individual will serve as an extension of the client’s Corporate Sustainability team, providing hands‑on program management and reporting/disclosure support across multiple functional workstreams. The position requires strong knowledge of CSRD and ESRS, combined with experience in sustainability reporting, program management, data and controls, and assurance readiness. This is anticipated to be a part‑time (16 hours per week), limited‑term assignment, requiring consistent weekly availability with the ability to flex during peak reporting and assurance periods.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and manage the integrated CSRD readiness plan, including milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions and critical‑path activities.
• Coordinate CSRD readiness activities across ESRS2 and material sustainability topics, working with topic owners, functional owners and data owners to drive actions to completion.
• Establish and manage an effective working cadence across workstreams, including meetings, action tracking, status reporting, issue resolution and escalation.
• Coordinate development and review of narrative and quantitative CSRD disclosures, helping maintain consistency across sustainability programs, metrics, methodologies, narratives, claims and supporting evidence.
• Support follow‑up and remediation of gaps related to policies, programs, metrics, methodologies, data, controls, evidence and disclosure readiness.
• Coordinate data validation, data‑lineage documentation, internal‑control readiness and evidence requirements with appropriate internal stakeholders.
• Support assurance‑readiness activities, including coordination with assurance providers, evidence requests, open‑item tracking and remediation.
• Establish and maintain repeatable reporting processes, including reporting calendars, RACIs, review and approval pathways, decision logs, templates and controlled reporting language.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external consultants supporting reporting technology, IT and other CSRD activities to ensure dependencies are effectively managed.
• Coordinate with sustainability reporting resources to align overlapping disclosures, narratives, metrics, evidence requests and timelines and minimize duplicative requests to internal stakeholders.
• Translate CSRD and ESRS requirements into practical actions for functional teams and appropriately escal…

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in sustainability, environmental science, business, accounting, finance or a related discipline preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of CSRD and ESRS, with demonstrated experience translating regulatory requirements into actionable workplans and reporting requirements.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or managing complex sustainability reporting, CSRD, disclosure or regulatory‑readiness programs, preferably within a large multinational or matrixed organization.
• Strong project and program management skills, including experience coordinating multiple workstreams, stakeholders, milestones and dependencies.
• Experience developing or coordinating narrative and quantitative sustainability disclosures.
• Experience supporting sustainability data validation, methodologies, data lineage, internal controls, evidence documentation and/or assurance readiness.
• Experience coordinating with sustainability assurance providers and supporting development of assurance‑ready evidence and documentation.
• Experience establishing reporting governance and repeatable disclosure processes, including RACIs, reporting calendars, review workflows and approval pathways.
• Familiarity with sustainability reporting technology platforms; Workiva experience is strongly preferred.
• Excellent organizational, stakeholder‑management and written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently as an embedded member of a client team, create structure from ambiguity, proactively drive actions to completion and appropriately escal…
• Must be comfortable performing hands‑on program‑management and reporting work, including maintaining plans and trackers, coordinating stakeholders, reviewing disclosure content and supporting evidence and assurance activities.

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. With more than 50 years of experience, our ability to integrate sustainability solutions and our depth and breadth of technical knowledge are why organizations choose to partner with us as their trusted advisor. 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.