Based in Brazil (in the reach of Piracicaba) + national travel

Language skills: Portuguese native 🇧🇷 and advanced English 🇬🇧

🌴 About InPlanet

We are an impact-driven, remote-first, ClimateTech (CDR) startup headquartered in Germany and Brazil to reverse climate change and make tropical agriculture more regenerative, low-carbon, and sustainable. We are working with Enhanced Rock Weathering in tropical agriculture, focusing on Brazil. We do this to create a liveable planet for future generations and, specifically, to regenerate soils and ecosystems, grow nutritious food, and increase food security and sovereignty in the tropics.

People-first, Performance Culture: We believe that focus on people and performance can co-exist with the right cultural vision. Our philosophy is to blend these two essential components. The Rocket symbolizes our commitment to peak performance, excellence, and reaching new heights. The Heart represents our dedication to our people, fostering empathy, compassion, and genuine care for every team member's well-being.

We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are proud to have an internationally growing team and we are designing our people practices to serve psychological safety, belonging, and authenticity.

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🌟 About the role

Operations x Project Management x Leadership x Agriculture

An excellent opportunity for someone with a true passion for and experience in managing complex projects. Within this role, you can significantly impact project satisfaction across internal and external stakeholders, timely delivery of  projects with excellence, and continuous improvement of our Operational KPIs. You would directly contribute to tackling climate change through sustainable agriculture.

As InPlanets Head of ERW (Enhanced Rock Weathering) projects you will be managing the overall strategy concerning the implementation and execution of our projects, with a strong focus from the moment the rock powder leaves the mine until it is spread properly onto the soil. This includes overseeing a robust and high-quality supply of rock powder, facilitating transport, spreading logistics, and supporting the timely and well-managed monitoring activities at the farm level.

Working Relationships

To make this all happen, you will manage an important part of our established and ambitious operations team, more specifically our supply & quality (MRV Rocks & Minerals), our Project Manager and Junior Project Leads as well as our GIS modeler who facilitates project operations remotely via mapping (& Geographic Information System). Most members of your team would have a genuine passion, expertise, and tertiary education (from BSc to PhD) in agronomy or a related field. You would report to our COO and you would work closely with our legal expert.

🎯 Key responsibilities

Initial Priorities

Your main challenge initially will be around transport and spreading logistics for farmers. You will be responsible for finding solutions to realize the transport of large amounts of rock powder in a fast and cost-efficient way. In addition, you will guarantee that transport, sampling, and spreading are prompt and that all project participants are well-aligned. You will have to negotiate with third parties and improve InPlanet’s offer and overall attractiveness towards mines and farmers by building a network of operational partners for transport, spreading and sampling. Having created a clear strategy around our project logistics you will be responsible for increasing the team capacity as we scale.

Daily Operations

You will be responsible for keeping the daily operations running smoothly. This means that at times you will navigate through stormy waters, respond to escalations, and resolve operational issues with professional conduct, problem-solving, and a positive attitude. You will report directly to the COO and significantly contribute to our overall operations strategy in Brazil. You will stay on top of our project related KPIs and enable data-driven improvements of our ERW operations, always with the goal of driving overall excellence of our projects. You are required to steadily improve our project management tools and make sure processes, decision-making and project data are well-documented and complete so they can be shared with our science and carbon teams to enable reliable calculation of ERW carbon removal credits.

The Impact You Can Make

You must be ready to the extra mile to enable excellent project management of a new emerging technology in agriculture globally, enable profound climate impact, and revolutionize the way farmers treat their soils in tropical agriculture. This means that, even though it is a leadership position, you are ready to take on any challenge, from creating a top level strategy to working directly on the ground and getting your boots dirty. At InPlanet, we find it important that things get done with high quality and integrity. The ideal candidate is solution-oriented, works independently, and can navigate uncertainty and figure out what good looks like.

👩‍🚀 You can be a Rock-Star if you have

• Prior experience in a fast-growth environment, preferably in a leadership position
• Exceptional project management and effective and inspiring people management skills
• Prior experience in agriculture and/or logistics and/or mining
• Experience in setting up a strategy and working with company goals
• Experience in operational reporting via key performance indicators
• Strong knowledge about operations and management in general
• If you can bring a network to facilitate our project logistics that is a big plus
• Prior experience with carbon credits and carbon markets is a plus
• Prior knowledge about remineralizers in tropical agriculture is a big plus
• Prior expertise in setting up and accompanying agronomic trials on the field level is a plus
• Go-getter, hands-on, and confident communicator
• Strong communication skills in Portuguese and advanced English
• High dedication, precision and love for detail
• Intrinsic motivation for developing others
• Passion for sustainable, regenerative agriculture and climate change mitigation (e.g. carbon farming)
• I can do this, we can do this mindset
• Disposition to travel within Brazil and spend some time periodically in Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

 

♥️ Living Our Values

At InPlanet, we have a big vision of solving climate change, and we are looking for individuals who are genuinely passionate about making a positive difference in the world of Carbon Removal Solutions. Trust guides our actions, drive fuels our efforts, and impact is our goal.

• Trust: You believe in being kind and transparent in the workplace, fostering an environment where trust thrives and collaboration flourishes.
• Drive: You possess an innate drive to take action with a hands-on, can-do attitude, propelled by urgency.
• Impact: You dream big and are committed to making a meaningful difference in the world, aligning with our overarching mission to address climate change.

🥰 Benefits

• Competitive - Salary expectations and our comp philosophy are openly discussed in the first interview with the goal of managing expectations fairly.
• Share options to make you feel like an owner.
• Home Office Budget
• Hybrid (onsite + remote): depending on business needs and travels
• Personal development budget
• Language Programme Monthly Allowance
• 40 days annual leave
• The opportunity to be autonomous, make a huge difference and belong to a vision.
• Occasional off-sites in Brazil yay!
• MacBook to fuel your productivity

💰InPlanet Compensation Philosophy

At InPlanet, our philosophy revolves around ensuring fair and unbiased compensation and equitable equity pay, coupled with competitive benefits, across all regions where we operate.

The reason behind our salary range being wide or undefined at the first stages of the interview is because of our international presence and globally distributed workforce, we utilize geo ranges to account for varying pay differentials, forming a crucial part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive across diverse markets as we expand our reach.

These ranges are determined by role, level, and location, recognizing the nuanced demands of each market. The actual base pay for the selected candidate is influenced by factors such as location, skills, experience, training, business requirements, and market dynamics, with the range subject to potential adjustments in alignment with our commitment to fairness and transparency.

🪨Application process

Roughly 6 hours across 3-6 weeks from CV-screening.

1. Interview with Talent & People Partner or Head of People (values & motivation)
2. Interview with the Hiring Manager (required core skills and competencies)

(optional third interview)

1. Challenge with 3+ team members (specific task, preparation needed)
2. Verbal reference check & psychometric profiling
3. Offer

📄 How to Apply

• We kindly ask you to submit your CV in English if possible or Portuguese
• Statement of motivation is a big plus

Being an equal opportunities employer is very important to us, and we are committed to ensuring that no applicant receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions which cannot be shown to be justifiable. We design our processes to be fair and equitable, and we believe in continuous learning.

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