Title - Technical Manager, Plastics Disclosure, Strategic Evolution

Location - London

Salary -£39,525- £49,407

About CDP:  

CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system. As the founder of environmental reporting, we believe in transparency and the power of data to drive change.

Partnering with leaders in enterprise, capital, policy and science, we surface the information needed to enable Earth-positive decisions. We helped more than 24,800 companies and almost 1,000 cities, states and regions disclose their environmental impacts in 2024. Financial institutions with more than a quarter of the world’s institutional assets use CDP data to help inform investment and lending decisions.

Our team is truly global, united by our shared desire to build a world where people, planet and profit are balanced. Visit cdp.net or follow us @CDP to find out more.

About the Team:

Disclosure Content is responsible for the strategic development, maintenance, and delivery of CDP’s disclosure framework (question bank, reporting guidance, and scoring). The disclosure framework provides environmental information to investors, customers, and other data users, and drives companies’ actions to transition to a sustainable economy.

The Strategic Evolution team is responsible for developing CDP’s disclosure framework in response to strategic projects, standard and framework alignment, and other evolving needs of the organization. We work closely with other teams and functions across CDP to implement environmental reporting best practices and pioneer new areas of environmental disclosure.

About this role:

This role will provide technical, scientific, and analytical expertise to develop and ensure the high quality of CDP’s disclosure framework, to drive corporate environmental disclosure and action. This will focus on the plastics and circular economy content in CDP’s question bank, reporting guidance, scoring methodologies and resulting data.

What you will do:

- Lead and contribute to the development of the plastics and circular economy question bank, reporting guidance, and scoring methodologies. Including:

• Creating a roadmap for the developments over the next 5 years

• Providing thought leadership and direction to steer content development.

• Prioritizing and creating proposals for strategic developments.

• Prioritizing metrics from relevant sustainability standards/frameworks and translating into developments for the evolution of CDP’s question bank and reporting guidance.

• Analyzing response data and conducting desk-based research.

- Provide subject matter expertise to plastics and circular economy projects and initiatives across CDP’s broader activities.

- Deliver presentations and facilitate workshops both internally and externally.

- Coordinate and collaborate with internal teams and external partners, for example,

• Coordinating and gathering input from CDP’s Plastics Partners group.

• Coordinating internal review processes to ensure the evolution of CDP’s plastics and circular economy question bank and scoring methodologies reflect CDP’s strategy and ambitions for a sustainable economy.

• Liaising with internal teams on reporting platform developments to improve user experience and data quality.

- Lead team processes to deliver questionnaire and scoring updates into the reporting platform.

- Find opportunities to optimize the planning and implementation of processes related to the evolution and delivery of CDP’s disclosure framework.

- Represent CDP externally as an expert on plastics and circular economy disclosure.

-Actively contribute to an effective and engaged team, clear on its purpose and contribution, by:

• Ensuring you know what is expected of you, through regular 1:1’s, having clear objectives in place, and participating in open and honest performance and development conversations

• Ensuring a respectful and inclusive workplace, where team members communicate openly, share knowledge so it can be used, and respect difference.

• Living the CDP Values and demonstrating the behaviours appropriate to your position.

Internal stakeholders include: Scoring, Thought Leadership, Data, and Customer Success Teams.

External stakeholders include: Disclosing Organizations, NGO Partners, Standards and Frameworks setters, and Data users.

We’re looking for:

• A relevant academic qualification (e.g., MSc in environmental science or management)

• Professional experience in a role related to environmental issues, preferably relating to plastics and the circular economy.

• Technical expertise in corporate environmental disclosure, focusing on plastics and the circular economy.

• Problem solving skills: the ability to think critically and make decisions on the work and challenges faced by the team.

• Significant project management experience

• A demonstrable understanding of the global sustainability agenda, in particular of corporate plastics-related risks, opportunities, impacts, and dependencies.

• Ability to design, implement, and refine operational processes to drive efficiency.

• A high standard of written English and the ability to present complex information in a simple and concise way.

• Excellent research and analytical skills, and strong attention to detail.

• The ability to organize and interpret qualitative and quantitative data.

• A high level of motivation, with a confident and collaborative working style.

• The ability to work effectively and efficiently with team members of different technical and cultural backgrounds.

Before you apply :

We’ll only use the information you provide to process your application. For more details on how we use your information, see our applicant’s privacy notice. By uploading your CV and covering letter, you are permitting CDP to use the information you have provided for recruitment purposes.  

How to apply: 
Please upload your CV and covering letter in the application form.

The salary banding for this role is £39,525- £49,407

This is a hybrid role, candidates will need to live within a commutable distance of the London office and be comfortable with 2 days in the office per week.

This is an 18-month contract with the possibility for extension