Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCS) / Cement Project Manager

Location: London (preferred), Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Munich (possible)

Conditions: Remote working with some travel, primarily in Europe

Reports to: Global Director of Value Chain Incubators

Hours per week: Full-time

The Mission Possible Partnership (MPP)

The Mission Possible Partnership was formed to supercharge efforts to decarbonize some of the world’s highest emitting industries in order to place them on a trajectory to net zero by 2050 aligned with a 1.5 degree scenario.

Our mission is to unlock a first wave of deep decarbonisation projects before 2025 and inspire a second wave of projects before 2030 across seven high-emitting sectors – aluminium, chemicals, concrete, steel, aviation, shipping, and trucking. We support the most ambitious industry leaders – the “doers” – by mobilizing their customers, their suppliers, their capital providers, and key policy makers to create the required operational and economic value chain conditions to unlock investment.

Position Summary

In 2023 and beyond, the Mission Possible Partnership is focused on scaling up key value chains in the hard to abate sectors by helping commercial scale infrastructure projects to Final Investment Decision (FID). To do this, it is establishing a series of value chain incubators to bring about the required operational and economic conditions to unlock investment. The Cement/CCUS (PM) will have a dual role of expert in the sequestration and utilization of carbon and expert in the cement sector.

Key Responsibilities

Project management:

• Ability to oversee techno-economic analysis of projects with a focus on infrastructure deployment
• Strategic thinking, consulting skillset and the ability to structure a solution framework to a complex problem
• Project management skills involving work planning, deliverable definition and troubleshooting, stakeholder engagement and client management
• Managing and developing junior team members, identifying key development points to coach them to the next level

Content knowledge:

• Understanding of the role of CCUS within the broader harder to abate sector transition (e.g. cement, steel, plastics production and end of life, blue hydrogen and derivatives)
• Deep understanding of the cement transition
• Awareness of the technology types, deployment considerations and value chain around CCUS development
• Awareness of policy, regulatory, permitting, and storage landscape within CCUS particularly within the US and EU regions
• Economic, strategic, environmental and political factors associated with CCUS roll out in different regions around the globe
• Ideally experience with or in major industry players who would have CCUS as a core part of their transition as well as technology providers

Coalition partner acquisition:

• Ability to craft a clear and simple articulation of the MPP value proposition in the CCUS value chain
• Ability to leverage own and MPP’s network to engage potential coalition members, lead introductory meetings and secure engagement
• Oversight and delivery of onboarding process for coalition participants
• Operation of coalition secretariat, involving definition of workplan, alignment with coalition members, sourcing feedback and input from coalition members, liaising with external stakeholders and integrating MPP central functions into the coalition activities (e.g. policy workstream)

Value proposition innovation:

• Ability to listen carefully to market signals and synthesise these into insights on coalition offering
• Ability to collaborate with MPP leadership to define and pivot coalition offering based on the evolving needs to the CCUS value chains
• Graduate degree in a relevant field
• 6+ years of professional services or industry experience
• Proven track record of relationship management
• Prior knowledge of climate and energy transition issues / prior knowledge of industry and transport decarbonisation a plus
• Comfortable working remotely
• Fluent English required; other language skills a plus

Diversity & Inclusion

We believe that diversity and inclusion are at the heart of system change and the mission we have set ourselves. So we commit ourselves to:

• Embedding diverse and inclusive ways of working from day to day. This includes recruitment, performance management, and people processes and policies.
• Providing a supportive environment. We want people to be themselves and be at their best, regardless of their background, personality, gender, sexual orientation, race, mental health, religion, or other characteristics.
• Enabling a long-term, sustainable approach to work and life more generally. We want to support our people at all stages of their lives – as parents or caregivers, through changing life circumstances – and to accommodate personal priorities where they matter most.