Job opportunity: Carbon sourcing lead in Africa at Climate Impact Partners

Climate Impact Partners is seeking to hire a Regional Sourcing Lead in its Global Supply Chain team, to leverage relationships with climate project partners to secure supply of high-quality carbon credits for its corporate clients.

Location: Nairobi, Kenya and hybrid

Responsibilities

Sourcing & Commercial

• Seek and identify demand signals, through effective collaboration with Sales team and monitoring of market trends.
• Manage and build project pipeline to qualify leads through quality assurance process and meet current and future demand targets.
• Perform preliminary due diligence checks and coordinate with technical colleagues, effectively communicating project pipeline priority and highlighting known risks.
• Cultivate new project partnerships through proactive outreach strategies and networking.
• Liaise with Finance team to carry out new partner KYCs and monitor progress.
• Negotiate with project partners to secure desired tonnage availability and pricing, safeguarding Climate Impact Partners’ business interests.
• Ensure competitive pricing with support from Commercial team’s input and determine optimal pricing strategy.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain leadership and Commercial team where terms deviate from established commercial models or to address ad hoc operational concerns, particularly focusing on risk management.
• Prepare and issue commercial contracts, seeking internal legal and commercial advice as required.
• Utilise and maintain deal tracking and inventory systems for data visibility.
• Fulfil Sales team requests and manage tickets using CRM system.
• Proactively collaborate with cross functional teams to continually improve and standardise scalable workflows and processes ensuring these are in line with company guidelines.
• Attend conferences and workshops to represent Climate Impact Partners and seek out new partnership opportunities.

Portfolio Management

• Manage and update data entries into inventory system including accurate project data, cost and volume availability.
• Track project deliveries, flag any delivery risks and ensure action plans are in place to close and/or reduce any delays.
• Manage project partner relationships to ensure project delivery at the agreed times, communicating delivery risk and delays as appropriate.
• Manage exclusive partnerships on an ongoing basis, including ensuring timely payment, monitoring and reporting.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain leadership and Commercial teams to verify inventory availability, internal project performance and determine optimal pricing strategy.
• Directly liaise with project partners and Marketing team, to ensure provision of accurate project information for marketing materials to enhance project performance.

Qualifications

• Several years of relevant commercial experience in carbon markets, preferably in business development independently conducting commercial negotiations, securing preferred supply terms and seeing deals through to completion.
• Understanding of carbon regulatory frameworks and Art.6.2 sourcing
• Experience and network in forestry, conservation and/or natural resource management but also Health & Livelihood (e.g Biogas, e-mobility etc).
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships with clients and team members.
• Knowledge of legal and contract management aspects.
• Excellent written and oral command of English.
• National, or holder of a valid required work visa in the host country.

To apply, click on the link below:

https://careers.climateimpact.com/jobs/5184506-regional-business-development-lead-carbon-sourcing-africa

brian@theenergyreview.com