Project Manager, CSRD Reporting & Disclosure Readiness (Field Based)

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Maintain and manage the integrated CSRD readiness plan, including milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions and critical-path activities.
• CSRD readiness activities across ESRS 2 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 escalate significant policy, risk, resource or disclosure issues.

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 escalate material issues.
• 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.