Managing Director, Asia Pacific (APAC)

Job purpose/summary

As a member of CDP’s Executive Leadership Team, the Managing Director for Asia Pacific (APAC) will have a key leadership role in championing the organisation’s mission, values and strategy, while also contributing to global strategic oversight and decision-making. The Managing Director, Asia Pacific is responsible for the development and execution of CDP’s mission and commercial strategy within the region, aligned to CDP’s global mission. In doing so, the post holder will lead the Asia Pacific management team and provide strategic oversight for CDP’s operations across locations.

The Managing Director for Asia Pacific will work with stakeholders across the organisation and play a crucial role by leading the regional team, overseeing the implementation of the strategy in region and supporting the regional directors manage key client and government relationships.

Key responsibilities

Strategy

• Defines the overarching strategy for the APAC region to drive growth aligned to CDP's global mission, overseeing its development and holding accountability for its effective delivery.
• Evaluates effectiveness of strategy implementation and revises planning where necessary to achieve growth, working closely with the ELT to ensure a consistent approach and strategic alignment to the overall objectives of CDP Worldwide and CDP's global mission Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to define best practices for the region, by identifying new or changing organisation needs and ensuring stakeholders are effectively and efficiently served Leadership & Management .
• Maintains a strong, supported and motivated team of country/regional Directors / employees in APAC who hold CDP’s core values.
• Defines the overall organisation of the region, ensuring it is structured for efficient and effective decision-making and communication in-line with the strategy.
• Develops strong internal relationship.

Leadership & Management

• Maintains a strong, supported and motivated team of country/regional Directors / employees in APAC who hold CDP’s core values.
• Defines the overall organisation of the region, ensuring it is structured for efficient and effective decision-making and communication in-line with the strategy.
• Develops strong internal relationships across all regions and departments to ensure effective collaboration across CDP.
• Supports direct reports to ensure they have the vision, resources and strategic input to achieve their remit, agreeing objectives and development goals with them for their teams and ensuring these are also agreed for all staff in the region.

Financial & Commercial Management

• Delivers progress towards growth targets by increasing income across all channels in the region through implementation of agreed operational and commercial plans.
• Ensures the country and regional Directors have commercial plans as part of the global commercial plan and implement accordingly.
• Ensures budgets are developed and approved and financial reporting is high quality and on time.

Key relationships

Key relationships for the Managing Director for APAC will be with:

• CEO, acting as an ambassador for the region and ensuring the strategy is aligned with CDP’s global mission and strategy.
• Chief Impact Officer, to maintain alignment to CDP’s overall intended impact and mission and enable effective matrix working for APAC-based communications and ecosystem partnerships leads.
• Chief Finance Officer, to enable effective financial planning and reporting for CDP APAC and alignment with CDP’s global financial strategy.
• Chief Stakeholder Officer, to ensure effective matrix working for APAC-based stakeholder leads, and alignment on CDP’s global stakeholder strategy and customer proposition.
• Chief Information Officer, to ensure APAC perspectives are appropriately considered in CDP’s global technology, disclosure and data strategy.
• Director for Finance, People & Administration (APAC), to provide oversight and maintain operational excellence for corporate services and financial reporting across the region.
• Directors for China, Japan, India, and the Hong Kong Hub, to ensure resources are optimally allocated and strategies are being implemented that drive excellence and high-performance across CDP’s Asia Pacific locations.

Key behaviours expected in this role:

• Making decisions and delivering results: Is accountable for developing and delivering the right strategies for the Asia Pacific region based on the appropriate level of insight, communicating these strategies clearly and simply, and creating the right environment so that resources are able to deliver them effectively.
• Mission & purpose-focussed: Advances CDP’s common goals by inspiring a shared vision for CDP and its stakeholders, enabling and empowering others in the organisation to make better decisions by communicating their vision and communicating clearly and transparently about the internal and external context.
• Intellect & insight: Finds ever-improving paths to success by empowering teams to embrace continuous learning and knowledge exchange
• Promoting a tech vision: Drives awareness and engagement with emerging technologies and CDP’s technology vision.
• Communicating and influencing: Acts as a spokesperson for CDP; influencing, negotiating and communicating openly, honestly and constructively; ensuring productive collaboration with executive level colleagues and others to drive joint initiatives.
• Stakeholder inclusion: Safeguarding trust, where accountable decisions are strengthened by diverse participation and perspectives.
• Enabling people & change: Identifies and drives real change and builds a resilient culture within the team that embraces necessary change. Leads with authenticity, promoting an inclusive environment where diverse individuals have a voice and feel like they belong.
• Commercial rigour: Demonstrates strong commercial acumen, strategic finance awareness and understanding of CDP’s global commercial strategy.

Salary and benefits: Competitive NGO salary dependent on experience, flexible working opportunities, annual discretionary bonus (depending on the organisation’s performance), training and development, and others.

Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in Hong Kong.

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How to apply

Please email your CV and a covering letter setting out how you meet the required skills, behaviours and key responsibilities, which should be no more than two pages, to [email protected] with ‘Managing Director, Asia Pacific' – First Name and Surname’ in the subject. The deadline is 17:30 (Hong Kong time) on Friday 30 July 2021.