Account Manager, Supply Chain, CDP UK & Worldwide

CDP, one of the world’s leading climate change charities, is seeking a highly motivated individual to support CDP’s corporate engagement work.

In your role as Account Manager, Supply Chain, you will work closely with our member companies as they embed sustainability into their procurement processes. Through a range of advisory, capacity building and analytical activities you will support the creation of data driven strategies to underpin ambitious corporate targets to reduce emissions, improve water security and halt deforestation in global supply chains. The role covers UK and Worldwide (WW) members. Worldwide is defined as companies from regions not currently covered by other CDP offices or partners (e.g. Russia, Middle East)

About the Supply Chain Team

CDP’s Supply Chain team works with our member base to cascade action on climate change, deforestation and water security down the supply chain. Through this action, precipitated by annual disclosure and driven by engagement between customers and suppliers, CDP’s Supply Chain program continues to change the face of environmental stewardship across the world.

The role includes:

Program growth

• Recruiting new members for CDP’s Supply Chain program and general business development for the program in the UK;
• Establishing, maintaining and leveraging relationships with relevant sustainability and procurement managers as well as trade associations, industry working groups and other organizations working in the sustainable supply chain and procurement field;
• Presenting on webinars and at events to raise awareness and develop new leads for future members of the program.

Program impact

• Managing relationships with existing members including advising on current best practice and providing strategy support towards sustainable supply chain goals and ambitions;
• Supporting member companies’ engagement around annual supplier disclosure through communications support and providing capacity building content for suppliers and procurement teams;
• Delivering analysis of supplier data and facilitating member integration of data into procurement processes and decision making;
• Other work, as required, supporting global program initiatives and collaborating with other CSC teams to drive CDP impact and engagement objectives.

Required skills and experience:

Essential

• An entrepreneurial and enthusiastic spirit with the ability to self-manage;
• Good business communications experience, a strong command of business language and confidence in interacting with senior contacts;
• Strong networking, sales or negotiation skills;
• A clear understanding of the aims of CDP’s supply chain program and a strong conviction about CDP’s impact;
• Data analysis and / or thorough research skills;
• Excellent attention to detail;
• Good working knowledge of the Microsoft Office software suite with particular emphasis on Excel;
• Fluency in English.

Desirable

• Existing knowledge in understanding climate change, deforestation and water-related issues from a business and procurement perspective;
• Experience of public speaking, presenting or delivering online content;
• Experience of CDP and its mission.

This is a full-time role based in CDP’s London office although remote working from elsewhere is possible during current pandemic disruption. The Account Manager, Supply Chain, role will report in to the Senior Manager, Supply Chain.

Salary and benefits: £32,362 - £34,000 per annum, 30 days’ holiday excluding bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, annual discretionary bonus (depending on company performance), Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, training and development, flexible working opportunities and others.

Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK.

Before you apply

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How to apply

Please fill out this short form and email your CV and a covering letter setting out how you meet the required skills and experience or key responsibilities, which should be no more than one page, to [email protected] with 'Supply Chain Account Manager UK, First name, Surname' in the subject.

The deadline is 9am, Monday 8 March. Interviews will be held from 10 March.