Job Purpose and Background in summary 

Are you passionate about working to prevent dangerous climate change, halt deforestation and champion water security? CDP is seeking an experienced Senior Manager to join the Partnerships team at CDP. By joining CDP, you will be welcomed into a dynamic, internationally respected and globally represented NGO with opportunities for professional development. In this varied role, you will be based in CDP’s London office and will manage the UK&WW Partnerships team. You will play a key role in growing, developing, and delivering the Accredited Solutions Provider and commercial data sales program in the UK, Middle East and Africa. You will also have oversight of our global academic data sales program.

CDP’s Accredited Solutions Provider program connects our base of thousands of disclosing companies with the providers that can support their environmental measurement, management, and leadership efforts: read more about the program here: https://www.cdp.net/en/info/accredited-solutions-providers.

About CDP  

CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The world’s economy looks to CDP as the gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action. In 2021 we launched our new five-year strategy: Accelerating the Rate of Change - find out more here. Visit  https://cdp.net/en or follow us @CDP to find out more.   

Key responsibilities include:

Management

• Line managing direct reports and overall resource planning for the Partnerships team (comprised of 6 FTE staff);

• Serve as a member of the UK & Worldwide CSC Management team;

• Managing or supporting special projects (such as the Stories of Change report, generating £100,000 plus of sponsorship income);

• Have oversight & facilitate collaborative working between the Partnerships team and other UK & Worldwide stakeholder teams;

• Account management of up to a maximum of 8 accredited solutions providers - approximately £400,000;

• Account management of key commercial data partners, approximately £300,000;

Strategy & Budget

• Responsible for achieving annual Partnerships revenue target (almost £3m) and related KPIs – as well as collective responsibility for meeting all the UK CSC financial targets;

• Work with Regional Director of Corporations to develop annual operational plan and budget for the Partnerships team.

Innovation

• Serve as a senior member of the Global Partnerships team, working with global counterparts to explore synergies and coordinate on relevant decision making, processes and communications.

You will have the following skills and experience: 

• Degree educated or equivalent (Environment/Sustainability-related degree desirable)
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role, working in NGOs and/or commercial organisations (Desirable)
• Ability to work independently, with strong attention to detail;
• Knowledge of and interest in climate change and sustainability topics;
• Good communication skills, ability to interact convincingly with people at different levels of seniority and different cultural backgrounds;

• Strong organisational and planning skills – both at strategic and operational levels;
• Very good Microsoft Office skills;
• Ability to work within an annual process with shifting priorities;
• Flexibility and creative problem-solving skills;
• Fluent in spoken and written English;

• Ability to work with global colleagues, and develop strong internal and external stakeholder relationships; and
• Experience of working in a global organisation (Desirable)

This is a full-time fixed term 12-month role based at CDP’s London office reporting to the Regional Director, Corporates and Supply Chains, UK&WW. 

Salary and benefits: £45,538 - £50,000 per annum, 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, training and development, flexible working opportunities and other benefits.

Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK. We cannot sponsor this role.

Before you apply 

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How to apply: 

Please fill in this short form and upload your CV in the application form along with a covering letter as an additional document setting out how you meet the required skills and experience or key responsibilities, which should be no more than two pages.  The deadline is 29th May.