CDE Standardization Lead

About the Role

ERM is seeking a visionary leader to champion a strategic standardisation programme that will redefine how we deliver projects across our global business. This high-impact opportunity allows you to influence the future of project delivery, operational excellence, digital enablement, and business transformation across one of the world's leading sustainability consulting firms.

As the CDE Standardisation Lead, you will lead a critical enterprise programme designed to create consistent, scalable, and practical ways of working across priority project types and enabling capabilities. You will transform strategic objectives into actionable standards, frameworks, tools, and governance models that improve how teams work, collaborate, and deliver value globally. Your leadership will drive consistency, adoption, quality, and continuous improvement while aligning standardisation efforts with digital transformation initiatives, AI opportunities, learning pathways, and future business growth.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the CDE standardisation strategy, roadmap, and implementation plans.
• Lead programme planning, prioritisation, risk management, dependency tracking, and delivery governance across multiple workstreams.
• Manage programme budgets, resource allocation, forecasting, and leadership reporting.
• Oversee programme management teams and ensure disciplined execution across all initiatives.
• Guide the development of workflows, SOPs, work instructions, templates, tools, checklists, and supporting documentation.
• Strengthen governance models, quality controls, approval processes, and continuous improvement mechanisms.
• Partner with executive sponsors, technical leaders, SMEs, finance, digital, and learning teams to drive adoption and organisational alignment.
• Support change management, communications, training readiness, and post-implementation adoption activities.
• Lead, coach, and develop direct reports and matrixed contributors while fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture.

Requirements

• Significant programme or transformation leadership experience within consulting, professional services, or complex enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to lead large-scale, multi-workstream initiatives involving global stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Strong expertise in programme governance, risk management, process improvement, stakeholder engagement, budgeting, and operational transformation.
• Experience developing standard operating procedures, business processes, governance frameworks, workflow documentation, and delivery standards.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive alignment at senior levels.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Project Management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise transformation or standardisation programmes within a consulting organisation.
• Knowledge of workflow mapping, RACI frameworks, quality management, governance structures, and global delivery models.
• Familiarity with digital transformation initiatives, automation, AI-enabled tools, and organisational change management.
• Experience coaching programme managers and leading matrixed teams across multiple regions and functions.
• Proficiency with tools such as PowerPoint, Excel, Miro, Workbench, or similar programme management platforms.

About the Company

As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, ERM partners with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

ERM’s diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by deep technical expertise in addressing environmental, health, safety, risk, and social issues. This "boots to boardroom" approach allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.