(Senior) Sustainability Solutions Manager (m / f / x)

Location

Berlin | Germany

Job description

Plan A has set itself the ambitious goal to support businesses around the globe to decarbonise and deliver on their climate objectives, using science and technology. We offer a software for decarbonisation and ESG reporting capabilities, that enables businesses of the likes of BMW, Mollie, Sorare, GANNI, Chloé and N26, to successfully manage their net zero journey. Building and growing Plan A has been only possible thanks to our ever-expanding team across Europe.

We're looking for a Senior Sustainability Solutions Manager to join our Sustainability Solutions department. Your role will support our team in two critical areas, and include enhancing the internal workflow between the Sustainability Solutions Team and Plan A’s Sales and Customer Success teams, as well as apply your subject matter expertise in emissions management to support developing solutions that help clients to decarbonise their organisations, products and services. In addition, you will be joining our Sales and Customer Success teams in technical client calls if needed.

We are looking for someone to:

• Enhance the internal subject matter communication between the Sustainability Solutions (SuSo) department and Plan A’s Sales and Customer Success teams. In particular to establish processes that identify the feasibility, timeline and effort required to provide clients with custom services.
• Understand the technical expertise and priorities of the SuSo team, and Plan A’s current product and service roadmap to create alignment between client needs and the delivery of respective product and service offers, in particular related to decarbonization.
• Have an active participation in the identification of emission reduction actions to improve Plan A’s platform, and also to provide tailor made recommendations for off - platform consultancy decarbonization projects. 
• Conduct the necessary research and to create tools, reports, and other mechanisms to estimate emission reduction potential of identified emission reduction actions at industry and company specific levels.
• Join our Sales and Customer Success teams in technical client calls, on an as-needed basis
• Ensure market feedback from our customers is looped back to the SuSo Team
• Stay up-to-date with trends in emissions management, decarbonization, and ESG policy

Requirements

• 3 - 5 years of experience in a similar role or in a consulting role
• Solid understanding of carbon accounting and emissions management, as well as ESG reporting principles with a strong willingness to further develop domain expertise
• Ability to communicate subject matter expertise to non-technical audiences - mostly in the context of the feasibility, time and effort required to support clients with needs not currently covered by our software or client services
• Ability to work in a fast-paced changing environment
• Team player mentality with an empathetic approach towards coworkers and customers who values cooperation over competition 
• Fluency in English at a proficient business level is a must for this position. 

What makes you stand out (optional)

• Fluency in German, French or additional languages is a plus

Benefits

What to expect from Plan A

• We establish and maintain internal mechanisms ensuring salary fairness and equity across gender and seniority levels
• Employee Stock Options (VSOP) for all permanent employees.
• Discounts and benefits via the Plan A Corporate Benefits Platform
• We support you with “MyPlan A” , your personalised career journey, in hitting your professional development goals and your vision for life
• We value continues learning and offer you an annual educational budget and access to various online learning platforms
• Monthly team activities, company on- and offsite.
• Flexibility to work remotely, in-office, or a bit of both
• 28 vacation days per year, 30 days working-from-anywhere, plus annual educational leave and sabbatical leave
• Contribution to a bigger purpose! Push the needle on climate action by contributing to the success of our carbon management and ESG software!
• We value collaboration over competition. You will become part of a cooperative and cross-functional environment, where we value sharing knowledge and best practices
• Enjoy the perks of remote work but always feel free to join us in our offices in Berlin, Paris or London.
• We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that values diversity and encourages you to be you. So we encourage applications from people of different genders, ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities and physical or neurodiversity

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