Partner with Sterling. Build your practice on a global name.

• Sterling Regional Associate — represent Sterling in your market

  For firms and individuals with a client base. You find and develop opportunities, coordinate proposals and keep the local relationship; Sterling issues or approves every proposal and delivers the work. Earn a commission on contracts Sterling signs through you, or work on a net Sterling price and set your own margin. Non-exclusive to start; exclusivity can be earned.

• Sterling Delivery Associate — deliver on Sterling engagements

  For experienced implementers, internal auditors and trainers. Work on Sterling projects in your country or remotely: implementation, documentation, internal audits, gap assessments, awareness and auditor training — to Sterling's method, with Sterling's templates, Effivity and the Sterling Academy behind you. Paid per assignment under a delivery associate agreement.

Many associates do both — represent Sterling locally and deliver what they are qualified to deliver.

• A name that opens doors

  20+ years, 8,100+ client engagements in 60+ countries, offices in 21 countries.

• You are never alone on a proposal

  Sterling scopes and prices every engagement; you present it with confidence.

• The broadest portfolio you can carry

  ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, 27001, 27701, 22000, 13485, 17025, 22301, 37001, 42001, 50001 and more; SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR and national data-protection laws; ESG; internal audit; training.

• Technology that makes you faster

  Effivity for GRC and ISO automation; Sterling Academy e-learning for your clients' people; Sterling's documentation kits.

• Learn from practitioners

  standards and product briefings, joint client calls, a Sterling counterpart for every opportunity.

• Grow into more

  associates who deliver consistently are first in line when Sterling opens an office or appoints an exclusive representative in their market.

• Consulting, training and advisory firms with an active client base
• Independent management-system consultants
• Internal auditors and lead auditors (for client internal audits and readiness — not third-party certification audits)
• Trainers in ISO, GRC and information security
• IT, cybersecurity and privacy practitioners
• Industry specialists (manufacturing, food, healthcare, automotive, aerospace, IT/BPO, financial services, construction, energy, laboratories)

What we weigh: real implementation or audit experience with named standards, the standing to sit with a managing director, English for working with Sterling and the local language for clients.

1. 01
   Apply
2. 02
   Review and a call with a Sterling director
3. 03
   Agreement for your role and territory
4. 04
   Onboarding: portfolio, proposal process, templates, your Sterling counterpart
5. 05
   Opportunities and assignments; you are paid as agreed

An associate is an independent business: Sterling's local commercial and/or delivery contact. An associate is not a Sterling office, branch or agent and cannot bind Sterling. An associate is not a certification body: Sterling and its associates prepare clients for independent third-party certification and never issue certificates.

Synergy Innovation Group for Technologies and Human Resources LLC

Maldives

Mediquip Maldives Pvt. Ltd.
H. Melaim (2nd floor)
Boduthakurufaanu Magu
Malé, Maldives

Clients in these countries may contact Sterling directly; we will involve the Regional Associate for your country.

Sterling reviews every application and replies to those we can take forward.