Your responsibilities Role Overview: <div style="text-align:justify;">As a Senior Manager, you will work closely with major clients who aim to develop nature based solutions. This role combines business development, strategic upselling, and technical advisory to ensure successful project delivery and growth of our climate action.</div>  Key Responsibilites:  <ul><li style="text-align:justify;">Project Ownership: Oversee the overall management of assigned project teams, ensuring high-quality delivery and achievement of agreed outcomes.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Performance Monitoring: Track and evaluate project progress, ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets, while resolving emerging challenges and ensuring alignment with objectives.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Client Communication: Maintain consistent and transparent communication with clients and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Commercial Development: Initiate and coordinate commercial proposals, manage contract design, and contribute to the overall growth of our advisory mandates.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Technical Expertise: Offer technical input and guidance for large and complex mandates, ensuring scientific and methodological rigor.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Innovation &amp; Improvement: Support the continuous improvement of methodologies, tools, and internal processes related to Nature-Based Solutions (NBS).</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Representation: Represent FORLIANCE in client meetings, workshops, and relevant industry events.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Business Growth: Collaborate closely with Team Leads and Sales Managers to identify new business opportunities, drive upselling initiatives, and support the growth of the NBS Advisory portfolio.</li></ul> Your profile <ul><li style="text-align:justify;">You bring significant experience (7+ years) in the Nature-Based Solutions sector, particularly in forest carbon projects in the Global South, land use advisory (agriculture, forestry), Food &amp; Beverage, or related sectors.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">You have commercial acumen, with prior experience in preparing proposals, participating in pitch meetings, and supporting business development efforts.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">You possess excellent organizational and coordination abilities, and you communicate confidently and clearly with clients and team members alike.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">You have proven experience managing forest carbon projects throughout their full lifecycle - from design and validation to verification and issuance - ideally within Verra and Gold Standard frameworks.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">You are skilled in project management, with practical experience using relevant tools and software to ensure structure, clarity, and timely delivery.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">You are fluent command and writing in English (required), and Spanish proficiency would be a strong asset.</li></ul> What we offer <ul><li style="text-align:justify;">The opportunity to apply deep expertise to high-impact climate and nature projects with real, measurable outcomes.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">A purpose-driven role in a mission-oriented organization committed to long-term sustainability and integrity.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">High degree of autonomy and ownership within your area of expertise, with trust in senior judgment.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">The chance to shape and refine approaches, methodologies and solutions in a growing, entrepreneurial environment.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Close collaboration with a dedicated, international team driven by shared values and ambition.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">A culture that values substance over hierarchy, and thoughtful, well-grounded decision-making.</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Flexible working arrangements that support focus, balance and wellbeing.</li></ul> OUR MISSION: We let values GROW:<ul><li style="text-align:justify;">we grow well financed, managed and monitored forests and ecosystems</li><li style="text-align:justify;">we grow long-term alliances with project stakeholders and clients</li><li style="text-align:justify;">we grow financial mechanisms and payment for ecosystem services to scale and improve projects</li><li style="text-align:justify;">we grow transparency and traceability through robust carbon standards, digital solutions, and earth observation technologie</li><li style="text-align:justify;">we grow the competency of our team by trainings, education and onboarding world leading experts  </li></ul>We create positive impact on our CLIMATE: <ul><li style="text-align:justify;">we partner with implementation organizations, international investors and development banks to develop the most robust climate projects  </li><li style="text-align:justify;">we help industry clients to account and manage their greenhouse emissions  </li><li style="text-align:justify;">we monitor, report and verify impact and results of performance indicators  </li><li style="text-align:justify;">we create climate solutions that are based on scientific research  </li><li style="text-align:justify;">we initiate transformation to fight climate change and to achieve carbon targets</li></ul><div style="text-align:justify;">We take ACTION:</div><ul><li style="text-align:justify;">we mobilize finance for ecosystem services and develop new integrated value chains together with local stakeholders  </li><li style="text-align:justify;">we use nature to build robust and proven carbon sinks by applying internationally recognized carbon standards and methodologies  </li><li style="text-align:justify;">we turn carbon reduction plans into concrete action, and projects  </li><li style="text-align:justify;">we think new ways and combine proven nature-based solutions with innovative financial mechanisms and state-of-the-art technology  </li><li style="text-align:justify;">we unlock new climate action project types and promote developing of new methodologies for carbon sinks</li></ul>

We believe in the power of alliances. FORLIANCE, a Macquarie-owned company, joins forces with its international clients, global partners, and multidisciplinary team of specialists to create intact forests and ecosystems that positively impact our climate, biodiversity, and human well-being.
We initiate, finance, create and manage robust nature-based climate projects and integrate them into sustainability strategies with our clients to achieve their sustainability targets.

Senior Manager Climate Solutions (m/f/d)

Your responsibilities Role Overview: <div>As a Senior Manager, you will work closely with major clients who aim to develop nature based solutions. This role combines business development, strategic upselling, and technical advisory to ensure successful project delivery and growth of our climate action.</div>&nbsp; Key Responsibilites:&nbsp; <ul><li>Project Ownership: Oversee the overall management of assigned project teams, ensuring high-quality delivery and achievement of agreed outcomes.</li><li>Performance Monitoring: Track and evaluate project progress, ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets, while resolving emerging challenges and ensuring alignment with objectives.</li><li>Client Communication: Maintain consistent and transparent communication with clients and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.</li><li>Commercial Development: Initiate and coordinate commercial proposals, manage contract design, and contribute to the overall growth of our advisory mandates.</li><li>Technical Expertise: Offer technical input and guidance for large and complex mandates, ensuring scientific and methodological rigor.</li><li>Innovation &amp; Improvement: Support the continuous improvement of methodologies, tools, and internal processes related to Nature-Based Solutions (NBS).</li><li>Representation: Represent FORLIANCE in client meetings, workshops, and relevant industry events.</li><li>Business Growth: Collaborate closely with Team Leads and Sales Managers to identify new business opportunities, drive upselling initiatives, and support the growth of the NBS Advisory portfolio.</li></ul> Your profile <ul><li>You bring significant experience (7+ years) in the Nature-Based Solutions sector, particularly in forest carbon projects in the Global South, land use advisory (agriculture, forestry), Food &amp; Beverage, or related sectors.</li><li>You have commercial acumen, with prior experience in preparing proposals, participating in pitch meetings, and supporting business development efforts.</li><li>You possess excellent organizational and coordination abilities, and you communicate confidently and clearly with clients and team members alike.</li><li>You have proven experience managing forest carbon projects throughout their full lifecycle - from design and validation to verification and issuance - ideally within Verra and Gold Standard frameworks.</li><li>You are skilled in project management, with practical experience using relevant tools and software to ensure structure, clarity, and timely delivery.</li><li>You are fluent command and writing in English (required), and Spanish proficiency would be a strong asset.</li></ul> What we offer <ul><li>The opportunity to apply deep expertise to high-impact climate and nature projects with real, measurable outcomes.</li><li>A purpose-driven role in a mission-oriented organization committed to long-term sustainability and integrity.</li><li>High degree of autonomy and ownership within your area of expertise, with trust in senior judgment.</li><li>The chance to shape and refine approaches, methodologies and solutions in a growing, entrepreneurial environment.</li><li>Close collaboration with a dedicated, international team driven by shared values and ambition.</li><li>A culture that values substance over hierarchy, and thoughtful, well-grounded decision-making.</li><li>Flexible working arrangements that support focus, balance and wellbeing.</li></ul> OUR MISSION: We let values GROW:<ul><li>we grow well financed, managed and monitored forests and ecosystems</li><li>we grow long-term alliances with project stakeholders and clients</li><li>we grow financial mechanisms and payment for ecosystem services to scale and improve projects</li><li>we grow transparency and traceability through robust carbon standards, digital solutions, and earth observation technologie</li><li>we grow the competency of our team by trainings, education and onboarding world leading experts &nbsp;</li></ul>We create positive impact on our CLIMATE:&nbsp;<ul><li>we partner with implementation organizations, international investors and development banks to develop the most robust climate projects &nbsp;</li><li>we help industry clients to account and manage their greenhouse emissions &nbsp;</li><li>we monitor, report and verify impact and results of performance indicators &nbsp;</li><li>we create climate solutions that are based on scientific research &nbsp;</li><li>we initiate transformation to fight climate change and to achieve carbon targets</li></ul><div>We take ACTION:</div><ul><li>we mobilize finance for ecosystem services and develop new integrated value chains together with local stakeholders &nbsp;</li><li>we use nature to build robust and proven carbon sinks by applying internationally recognized carbon standards and methodologies &nbsp;</li><li>we turn carbon reduction plans into concrete action, and projects &nbsp;</li><li>we think new ways and combine proven nature-based solutions with innovative financial mechanisms and state-of-the-art technology &nbsp;</li><li>we unlock new climate action project types and promote developing of new methodologies for carbon sinks</li></ul>

Senior Manager Climate Solutions (m/f/d)

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