Partner - NSW Environmental Planning and Approvals (Renewables)

ERM has established a presence in Australia since 1994 with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Newcastle and Canberra. Our teams service key clients across sectors, providing full life cycle services at both corporate and facilities levels and bringing international best practices to local clients.

Our team includes professionals whose expertise is leveraged regionally and globally to bring international best practice methodologies to local clients through first-hand experience.

We are offering an exciting career-defining opportunity as a Partner focused on Project Planning and Approvals in Sydney, NSW, Australia.

We seek an outstanding professional who combines consulting, technical delivery and client skills to help ERM foster and expand a network of strong client relationships and deliver tangible value for our clients.

This role includes selling and delivering high-quality technical services, recruiting and developing future leaders, and advancing our reputation for the management and delivery of capital projects.

Primary focus on supporting our clients in environmental approvals and impact assessments for renewable energy, mining, infrastructure and/or industrial sector clients.

• Lead and manage an approvals and planning team to secure major project approvals for clients in renewable (wind farms, solar, hydrogen etc.), mining, infrastructure and industrial space.
• Lead environmental assessment projects and related approvals management in support of ERM clients' capital project delivery.
• Build, grow and manage a high-performance team, serving as a leader and mentor to consultants. Identify emerging talent and work with them to reach their full potential; ensure rising stars are nurtured, developed and given new areas of responsibility.
• Support the growth and development of ERM's Capital Project Delivery service area and collaborate with colleagues across the nation and globe.
• Drive innovation within the technical community to stay ahead of client needs and differentiate ERM in the market.
• Work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment to build ERM's business, and to lead client and technical teams.
• Meet business financial targets, overall project budget and schedule, client satisfaction/expectations, and internal and contract requirements.
• Partner with Account Directors to actively develop commercial strategies to pursue and win new business opportunities that result in significant revenue growth with target clients aligned with ERM's global strategy:
  • Provide business value selling at the top levels of client organisations, raising the profile of ERM's capabilities and identifying client needs for ERM services.
  • Develop new client relationships and expand existing ones by delivering strategic consulting, value and quality service.
  • Maintain awareness of industry business cycles and prioritise sales efforts toward high-potential opportunities.
  • Manage capture efforts using technical understanding to develop proposals, including written content, pricing, presentations and contracting.

If you have the following, we want to hear from you:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications;
• 15+ years of environmental planning and approvals, impact assessment, and experience working with WA and Commonwealth legislative requirements;
• High degree of technical competence in environmental planning and approvals, due diligence, land use planning, post-approval management and broad knowledge of impact assessment best practices within renewables, infrastructure and industrial sectors;
• Solid experience building sustaining relationships with major clients;
• Authorization to work in Australia;
• In-depth understanding of project approvals challenges, including existing relationships that can be leveraged into new business;
• Business acumen to understand business risk and opportunities;
• Demonstrable track record in delivering multimillion-dollar sales results annually, including winning large and strategic projects.

ERM is the world's leading sustainability consulting firm, positioned to contribute to the environment and society through our global expertise and the energy of our people. Sustainability is at the heart of our service offerings and how we operate. We aim to attract, inspire, develop and reward our people to work with top clients on major challenges, creating valuable careers. We maintain our ERM values: Accountability, Caring for our People, Client Focus, Collaboration, Empowerment, and Transparency.

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ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status or disability status.

Thank you for your interest in ERM.