CDP India - Senior Project Officer - Supply Chain

Senior Project officer, Supply Chain, CDP India

Job Purpose and Background

Do you want to make a difference to the effects of climate change in India? Are you looking for the next step in your career and to support CDP's corporate engagement work? . In your role as Senior Project Officer, Supply Chain, you will work closely with our member companies as they embed sustainability into their procurement processes. Through a range of advisory, capacity building and analytical activities you will support the creation of data driven strategies to underpin ambitious corporate targets to reduce emissions, improve water security and halt deforestation in global supply chains. The role covers Indian members.

About the Supply Chain Team

CDP's Supply Chain team works with our member base to cascade action on climate change, deforestation and water security down the supply chain. Through this action, precipitated by annual disclosure and driven by engagement between customers and suppliers, CDP's Supply Chain program continues to change the face of environmental stewardship across the world.

Key responsibilities include:

Program growth:

- Recruiting new members for CDP's Supply Chain program and general business development for the program in India;

- Establishing, maintaining and leveraging relationships with relevant sustainability and procurement managers as well as trade associations, industry working groups and other organizations working in the sustainable supply chain and procurement field;

- Presenting on webinars and at events to raise awareness and develop new leads for future members of the program

Program impact:

- Managing relationships with existing members including advising on current best practice and providing strategy support towards sustainable supply chain goals and ambitions;

- Supporting member companies' engagement around annual supplier disclosure through communications support and providing capacity building content for suppliers and procurement teams;

- Delivering analysis of supplier data and facilitating member integration of data into procurement processes and decision making;

Required skills and experience

- An entrepreneurial and enthusiastic spirit with the ability to self-manage;

- Good business communications experience, a strong command of business language and confidence in interacting with senior contacts;

- Strong networking, sales or negotiation skills;

- A clear understanding of the aims of CDP's supply chain program and a strong conviction about CDP's impact;

- Minimum 4 years-6 years of working experience required in Environment and Sustainability sector.

- Data analysis and / or thorough research skills.

- Excellent attention to detail;

- Good working knowledge of the Microsoft Office software suite with particular emphasis on Excel;

- Existing knowledge in understanding climate change, deforestation and water-related issues from a business and procurement perspective;

- Experience of public speaking, presenting or delivering online content;

This is a full-time WFO role based at CDP's New Delhi office for a fixed term of 1 year (with possibility of renewal basis performance)

Salary and benefits

- INR 7 lacs-9 lacs per annum

- Annual discretionary bonus (depending on company performance)

- 22 holidays (annually) plus bank holidays

- Parental and compassionate leave

- Study leave

- Medical insurance covering employee/spouse and two children

- Provident fund

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How to apply:

Please upload your CV in the application form along with a covering letter as an additional document setting out how you meet the required skills and experience or key responsibilities, which should be no more than two pages.

The deadline is 10th May 2022 Midnight.