Regional Sourcing Lead, Africa

About Us
Climate Impact Partners delivers solutions for climate action. We are carbon market specialists and a go-to partner for every stage of the net zero journey.

With over 25 years of industry experience and fuelled by a relentless drive for rapid action and results, we have made it our mission to urgently ensure a thriving future for all life on earth.

We do this by providing an end-to-end service that delivers high-quality, thoroughly vetted climate projects which reduce carbon emissions, improve health and livelihoods, and enhance biodiversity.

Together with our clients and project partners we have been responsible for the reduction or removal of more than 144 million tCO2e.

Check out our
Impact Report
to learn more about us and some of the work you could help us drive forward.

What Sets Us Apart

• Boundless, urgent ambition. We are accountable, relentless, resilient.
• Courage to innovate. We are courageous, creative, curious.
• Integrity without compromise. We are trustworthy, credible, committed.
• Empowered to serve. We are respectful, inclusive, collaborative.

THE ROLE
As a Regional Sourcing Lead with Climate Impact Partners, you will play a crucial role in driving climate action by strategically securing short to long-term accessible tonnes from high-quality projects. These projects will deliver on-the-ground impact and provide us with 'sourced' carbon credits (i.e., existing projects that are already producing or close to producing) verified emission reductions for voluntary and, potentially, compliance markets).

Climate action commitments across the business world are rapidly increasing, with a strong focus on achieving carbon neutrality. At Climate Impact Partners, we offer a leading carbon neutrality framework that has earned the trust of prominent organizations like Microsoft, KPMG, Sky and Logitech. To further advance our efforts, we are looking for a skilled professional with experience in relationship management, commercial negotiations, closing deals and deal delivery management, with exposure to carbon markets.

Responsibilities
Sourcing & Commercial

• Seek and identify demand signals, through effective collaboration with Sales team and monitoring of market trends.
• Manage and build project pipeline to qualify leads through quality assurance process and meet current and future demand targets.
• Perform preliminary due diligence checks and coordinate with technical colleagues, effectively communicating project pipeline priority and highlighting known risks.
• Cultivate new project partnerships through proactive outreach strategies and networking.
• Liaise with Finance team to carry out new partner KYCs and monitor progress.
• Negotiate with project partners to secure desired tonnage availability and pricing, safeguarding Climate Impact Partners' business interests.
• Ensure competitive pricing with support from Commercial team's input and determine optimal pricing strategy.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain leadership and Commercial team where terms deviate from established commercial models or to address ad hoc operational concerns, particularly focusing on risk management.
• Prepare and issue commercial contracts, seeking internal legal and commercial advice as required.
• Utilise and maintain deal tracking and inventory systems for data visibility.
• Fulfil Sales team requests and manage tickets using CRM system.
• Proactively collaborate with cross functional teams to continually improve and standardise scalable workflows and processes ensuring these are in line with company guidelines.
• Attend conferences and workshops to represent Climate Impact Partners and seek out new partnership opportunities.

Portfolio Management

• Manage and update data entries into inventory system including accurate project data, cost and volume availability.
• Track project deliveries, flag any delivery risks and ensure action plans are in place to close and/or reduce any delays.
• Manage project partner relationships to ensure project delivery at the agreed times, communicating delivery risk and delays as appropriate.
• Manage exclusive partnerships on an ongoing basis, including ensuring timely payment, monitoring and reporting.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain leadership and Commercial teams to verify inventory availability, internal project performance and determine optimal pricing strategy.
• Directly liaise with project partners and Marketing team, to ensure provision of accurate project information for marketing materials to enhance project performance.

Essential
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Several years of relevant commercial experience in carbon markets, preferably in business development independently conducting commercial negotiations, securing preferred supply terms and seeing deals through to completion.
• Experience and network in agriculture, forestry, conservation and/or natural resource management.
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships with clients and team members.
• Knowledge of legal and contract management aspects.
• Excellent written and oral command of English.
• National, or holder of a valid required work visa in the host country.

Nice to have

• Proven track record of effective relationship and partnership management.
• Excellent time management and prioritisation skills.
• Project management capabilities to track project partners through onboarding phases.
• Strong team-player who thrives in a high-pressure environment.
• Proven experience within a fast-paced and dynamic business environment experiencing rapid growth and change.
• Solution-oriented with a structured approach to problem-solving.

PERKS

• Hybrid working
• 25 days paid holiday
• Private Health Insurance
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• Bonus Scheme (subject to company and individual performance)
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• LinkedIn Learning License & Professional Training Budgets
• Summer Fridays (start your weekend early if you've finished everything on your to-do list)
• Working from Abroad (up to 4 weeks a year)
• Global Volunteering Day

Climate Impact Partners is an equal opportunities employer. Our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce, that embraces our differences, and so all aspects of employment including the decision to hire and promote, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business need. We do not discriminate on the basis of characteristics protected under federal, state, or local law. To support this, all applications are anonymised until the interview stage which means that regardless of who has applied, your characteristics are totally anonymous.

Contact Sarah Barke Senior Manager, Recruitment & Talent Strategy

About Climate Impact Partners
Climate Impact Partners delivers solutions for action on climate. Together with the world's leading companies and quality project partners we will reduce 1 billion tonnes of CO2 to transform the global economy, improve health and livelihoods, and restore a thriving planet.

Climate Impact Partners builds on the expertise, integrity, and innovation of two companies that have led the voluntary carbon market, Natural Capital Partners and Climate Care. Fueled by a relentless drive for rapid action and results, our global team continues to pioneer the market's development, and set the standards for quality that will maximize its impact.

What We Do
We believe that carbon markets have a critical role to play in delivering action by putting a price on carbon and funding carbon reduction projects to meet our global climate goals.

We develop and deliver the highest quality carbon financed projects from which we create carbon credit and energy attribute certificate portfolios for our clients. This enables organizations to offset the emissions they can't reduce, put a price on carbon to incentivize change, and meet their ambitious climate goals.

Who We Work With
We work with leading corporates, NGOs, and governments to deliver solutions for climate impact, ensuring they meet their carbon neutral, net zero, and renewable energy goals.