Corporate Relations Analyst

Location: Berlin, Germany
Application deadline: 17/05/2020
Earliest starting date: As soon as Possible

- Are you excited to use your technical and analytical skills and mindset for creating a thriving economy that works for both people and planet?

-Would you enjoy enabling a corporate-facing team in an international non-profit organization to pursue its mission through enhanced analytics and data visualization?

- Do you have a keen interest in improving working procedures through operational excellence?

- Then help us make the business case for our planet and people.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join CDP’s Corporate Relations team. This position is an exciting opportunity to apply technical, analytical and data visualization skills in the context of an environmental NGO that works with many of the world’s largest multinationals, such as L'Oréal, Volkswagen and Telefonica, to mitigate climate change, improve water security and tackle deforestation.

The role includes:

• Enabling the work of CDP Europe’s Corporate Relations Team through business intelligence and analytics, e.g; - By developing tracking mechanisms and dashboards to allow consistent and continuous status and target tracking; - By assessing internal corporate engagement indicators to measure customer engagement and improve customer feedback and management experience; - By generating insights derived from CDP’s corporate datasets and creating data visuals to communicate key messages to internal and external stakeholders;
• Process management for CDP Europe’s Corporate Relations Team, particularly regarding but not limited to engagement and communication activities;
  
• Sketching out and implementing efficient processes and structures to gather and deliver on data needs and requests from various teams within CDP Europe;
  
• Creating a “data sharing and analysis culture” within CDP Europe, i.e. enabling individual teams’ step by step to conduct their own analysis, establish structures and procedures for consistent and centralized data sharing between teams;
  
• Identifying and generating technical process efficiencies across the team, using e.g. Excel, Macros and potentially software programming;
  
• Analysing the environmental data reported by the more than 600 European corporations (e.g. emission figures and zero deforestation targets) and developing creative and eye-catching data visualizations for use in public reports, policy leaflets, investor products etc;
  
• Potentially managing a working student to conduct data analysis tasks for various teams;
• Assisting with ad-hoc tasks as required.

The successful candidate will have:

• BA/BSc degree (MA/MSc preferred) in fields like but not limited to business, data science, data analysis and visualization, computer science etc;
• 2-3 years of work experience in a comparable role;
• Strong analytical and data visualization skills;
  
• Excellent knowledge of MS Excel and VBA/Macros;
  
• Advanced knowledge in one or more of the following: Python, SQL, Visual Basic, R, Power BI, Tableau;
• Advanced knowledge of CRM systems, particularly MS Dynamics, is an advantage;
  
• Knowledge of data visualization tools (e.g. Adobe Illustrator) is an advantage;
  
• Creative problem-solving mentality coupled with attention to detail and a diligent working approach;
  
• Ability to be flexible, work in an unstructured environment, and/or conduct remedial tasks when necessary while keeping a “can-do” attitude;
  
• Enjoy transforming a heterogenous data landscape with patchy documentation and procedures into a homogenous system, and striving from the opportunity to shape this;
  
• Enjoy working with people and large corporations for a good purpose, ability to work with teams in a multi-national setting;
  
• Interest in corporate sustainability themes and related company challenges;
  
• Excellent English skills (verbal and written), other European languages are an advantage (particularly French/German).

What we offer:

• Exciting and challenging tasks in a dynamic, innovative and highly motivated team;
• Working with many dedicated and passionate people for a good cause;
• Competitive NGO salary and annual bonus (depending on company results);
• 30 days annual holidays;
• Flexible working hours;
• Company Pension with Allianz;
• Monthly contribution to public transport ticket (BVG Monatskarte);
• Modern office at WeWork (Sony Center) with free networking events, and hot and cold beverages.

The successful candidate will work five days per week and must be able to work legally in Germany. This full-time role is based at our office in Berlin, Germany, and will work closely with the Corporate Operations team and related roles in other teams, and report to the Associate Director Corporate Operations.

Interested? Interested candidates should submit their application documents (motivation letter addressed to David Lammers, CV, references/certificates, salary expectations and earliest starting date) in English, as a single PDF and via email to [email protected] with “Corporate Relations Analyst – First name Last name” in the subject line.

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