Account Manager - Reporter Services

Job background

CDP is seeking a highly motivated individual to support our corporate engagement work in Europe. As Account Manager - Reporter Services, you will accelerate our mission and motivate global multinationals with expertise, enthusiasm and endurance on the strategic journey to limiting climate change, improving water stewardship and forest-related practices from direct corporate business practices.

The role includes

• Managing a portfolio of European companies members of the CDP Reporter Services program ( program members ), and managing the relationship of these members with CDP;
• Supporting program members in improving the quality of their CDP disclosure : providing high-level and strategic score feedback, conducting detailed gap analyses of members’ disclosure and formulating action-driven recommendations;
• Supporting program members in advancing their sustainability strategies and staying ahead of the curve : facilitating the understanding of best environmental practices, data driven insights, benchmarking and learning from peers;
• Engaging program members on thought leadership practices, notably supply chain engagement, science-based targets, transition planning and renewable energy, often in collaboration with other CDP teams;
• Ensuring membership renewals and upgrades, developing leads and converting them into new program members;
• Contributing to the wider development and strategy of the CDP Reporter Services program, potentially : developing data and analytics products, producing insightful events and webinars, enhancing sales and marketing tools, feeding into CDP questionnaires’ development, ensuring relevant information flow with CDP Policy team, strengthening team’s processes and training;
• Public speaking representing CDP and Reporter Services as a subject matter expert;
• Assisting with ad-hoc tasks within the team and in collaboration with other CDP teams.

The successful candidate should have

• Experience in account management and / or client-facing roles highly desirable;
• Demonstrable interest in corporate sustainability themes;
• Experience in working on climate change and sustainability topics, with a special focus on GHG emissions and / or water and / or forest and / or nature, or with a focus on specific sectors within a corporate environment a plus;
• Excellent communication and analytical skills - can interact convincingly with people at different levels of seniority and different cultural backgrounds, whilst conveying complex information in a simple and effective way
• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills, in particular Excel and Powerpoint additional exposure to visual or analytical software is welcome;
• Willingness to travel across continental Europe on occasion;
• Fluent in spoken and written English; French or any other major European language a plus.

What we offer

• Working for a leading people-centric environmental NGO with dedicated, passionate and caring coworkers;
• Competitive NGO salary, bonus and Company Pension Program;
• Access to in-house massage and unlimited counselling via our EAP service;
• 30 days annual holidays;
• Flexible working hours with the possibility for two flexi-days per month;
• Paid sabbaticals;
• Company-subsidised Urban Sports Club membership (M-package);
• Monthly contribution to public transport ticket (BVG Monatskarte);
• Modern office at Sony Centre / Potsdamer Platz

Further information

The successful candidate will work five days per week and must be able to work legally in Germany. This full-time role is based 2 days per week at our office in Berlin, Germany.

Initial contract term is two years with a view to a future permanent contract.

Interested? Interested candidates should submit their CV and salary expectations in English.

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About us

CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s environmental disclosure system for companies, cities, states and regions.

Founded in 2 000 and working with more than 680 financial institutions with over $130 trillion in assets, CDP pioneered using capital markets and corporate procurement to motivate companies to disclose their environmental impacts, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests.

Over 14,000 organizations around the world disclosed data through CDP in 2021, including more than 13,000 companies worth over 64% of global market capitalization, and over 1,100 cities, states and regions.

Fully TCFD aligned, CDP holds the largest environmental database in the world, and CDP scores are widely used to drive investment and procurement decisions towards a zero carbon, sustainable and resilient economy.

CDP is a founding member of the Science Based Targets initiative, We Mean Business Coalition, The Investor Agenda and the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative.