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Head of Business Unit (f/m/d) Nature Based Solutions

Permanent employee, Full-time · Germany, Germany (Baden-Württemberg), Germany (Bayern), Germany (Berlin), Germany (Bremen), Germany (Hessen), Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Your responsibilities
  • Management of a team of approx. 25 people (4 direct reports and approx. 21 indirect reports)
  • Responsibility for annual Business Unit budget
  • Delivery of Business Unit KPI and monitoring of deadlines
  • Developing Emerging Opportunities and integrating them into the FORLIANCE value proposition
  • Alignment with internal and external stakeholders in structuring the FORLIANCE NBS project pipeline and portfolio to meet markets’ current and future demands
  • Develop and execute FORLIANCE business strategies in order to attain the goals of the company.
  • Participate in business strategy to improve and deliver highest quality NBS deliveryand products
  • Gathering intelligence about market trends, relevant regulation and policies
  • Responsibility for short-, mid- and long-term Carbon Inventory management
Your profile
  • Extensive professional experience of several years in the areas of strategic planning, clustering processes and project management
  • Profound management experience (with at least 20 employees)
  • Several years of experience in strategic team building
  • Proven experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously in an international team
  • Experience in creating business and financial plans for natural carbon projects or similar projects (e.g. renewable energy)
  • Strategic thinking and innovative ability
  • Fluent in English. Fluency in Spanish or French, additional languages are an advantage
  • Willingness to travel
  • Professional experience in Latin America, Africa or South-East Asia is an advantage
What we offer
  • Collaboration in an international interdisciplinary and dynamic team
  • Exciting field of work at the interface between business and climate protection
  • A casual work environment with impact
  • A comprehensive introduction to our team and processes while providing the space to develop your own solutions – new ideas are expressly welcome
  • Remote work possible if preferred
  • Regular training and capacity building
OUR MISSION:
We let values GROW:

  • we grow well financed, managed and monitored forests and ecosystems
  • we grow long-term alliances with project stakeholders and clients
  • we grow financial mechanisms and payment for ecosystem services to scale and improve projects
  • we grow transparency and traceability through robust carbon standards, digital solutions, and earth observation technologie
  • we grow the competency of our team by trainings, education and onboarding world leading experts.  
We create positive impact on our CLIMATE:  

  • we partner with implementation organizations, international investors and development banks to develop the most robust climate projects  
  • we help industry clients to account and manage their greenhouse emissions  
  • we monitor, report and verify impact and results of performance indicators  
  • we create climate solutions that are based on scientific research  
  • we initiate transformation to fight climate change and to achieve carbon targets. 
We take ACTION:

  • we mobilize finance for ecosystem services and develop new integrated value chains together with local stakeholders  
  • we use nature to build robust and proven carbon sinks by applying internationally recognized carbon standards and methodologies  
  • we turn carbon reduction plans into concrete action, and projects  
  • we think new ways and combine proven nature-based solutions with innovative financial mechanisms and state-of-the-art technology  
  • we unlock new climate action project types and promote developing of new methodologies for carbon sinks.
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About us
FORLIANCE initiates, finances, creates and manages robust nature- based climate projects and integrates them into sustain-ability strategies with our clients to achieve their Net Zero Carbon targets. Together with our global partners, and our 50+ team members in ten countries, we strive to create intact forests and ecosystems that positively impact our climate, biodiversity and human well-being. We offer companies effective solutions for climate protection by developing individual climate protection strategies.
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