Plastics Engagement Manager, Corporations & Supply Chains

Are you looking to join the global race to stabilise both the environment and the economy? Are you looking for a role that combines your professional experience with an ethical focus? CDP is where business leaders, financiers and policymakers turn for critical environmental information and innovative, systemic solutions. This is an exciting, impact-oriented role working on a globally significant issue – plastic pollution, usage and transition to a circular economy for plastics. You will be responsible for informing CDP’s approach to breaking the plastic wave and driving corporate engagement on this topic.

The successful candidate will work with various teams across CDP and external partners to ensure the highest impact is achieved; deliver key interventions such as market research, indicator development, capacity building, integration into CDP’s existing thematic strategies as well as internal and external engagement.

About CDP  

CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s environmental disclosure system for companies, cities, states and regions. Founded in 2000 and working with more than 590 investors with over $110 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. Visit cdp.net or follow us @CDP to find out more.

 About the Corporations & Supply Chains Team 

The CSC department consists of 130+ people, and the teams that make up this department are responsible for facilitating the company journey for thousands of companies globally from their first response to making bold environmental commitments and beyond. The CSC Customer Experience team drives forward operational excellence to ensure a smooth experience for companies reporting through the CDP platform and you will play a critical role in coordinating the introduction of this new topic.

Key responsibilities include:  

• CDP is seeking a highly motivated individual to help us develop and implement a plan to use disclosure and transparency to drive positive action by the private sector, to prevent total plastic leakage. 
• This role is tied to the delivery of CDP 2025 strategy to expand our disclosure universe and corporate reporting to new environmental themes across the broader areas of Waste and Oceans.
• You will be responsible for identifying the best way CDP can play a pivotal and strategic role in tackling this urgent agenda. The work will focus on developing and operationalizing the introduction of plastics as a new topic to CDP’s corporate stakeholders, including:
• Understanding the demand for and ability to disclose plastic-related data amongst CDP’s key stakeholders.
• Mapping and understanding the scope and impact of all the relevant initiatives, projects and research in this space to identify CDP’s unique contribution
• Identifying how CDP’s existing thematic strategies, disclosure frameworks, and capacity building programs can be adapted to address the issue; and
• Supporting CSC to deliver CDP’s annual reporting cycle
• Work with relevant teams to understand and inform product development opportunities
• Working in collaboration with CSC Technical Liaison on content development in this area, as well as the Disclosure Content teams and their Plastics expert to ensuring corporate stakeholder needs and requirements are considered and integrated.
• Leading on capacity building and knowledge sharing among CDP’s external facing teams, around plastics (and how it relates to strategic drivers of waste and oceans).
• Represent CSC externally on plastics issues as necessary, particularly with relevant sectors
• Support account managers as the in-house expert in engaging corporates on plastics, and their relationship to waste, oceans and circular economy
• Work with relevant colleagues to embed plastic in existing messaging and to develop separate communications

You will have the following skills and experience: 

Essential criteria:  

• Demonstrable expertise in plastic pollution/packaging/usage issues and its place in the transition to a circular economy, and / or how it relates to waste and oceans, with a particular focus on corporate activities
• Experience of working to drive environmental change within the private sector – ideally in companies or financial institutions related to plastics or waste issues.
• Strong experience of leading the development of operational outcomes program strategies.
• Excellent written verbal communication skills, including presentations to diverse audiences with different levels of understanding.
• Proven experience of project management and ability to multi-task and meet deadlines.
• A high level of self-motivation and drive.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with teams of individuals and colleagues
• Fluency in English

  Desirable criteria 

• An understanding of the role of cities in tackling the plastic crisis and the intersection between public and private action.
• Experience with reporting against KPIs and outcomes for philanthropic funders 

 Salary and benefits: £37,600 with annual discretionary bonus (depending on organization performance), 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, life assurance, flexible working opportunities, and other benefits. There is a 3-month probationary period for this role.

This is a full time, fixed term role for 12 months with the aim of long-term renewal. The role will be based at CDP’s London office with options for remote/hybrid working and will report to CSC Stakeholder Coordination Manager

Applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK. CDP cannot sponsor this role. 

The deadline is Sunday 26h June, 2022

If you do not hear from us within 14 days of the deadline, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please note that we only provide feedback to shortlisted candidates.