Senior Project Delivery Manager

Senior Project Delivery Manager

About us:

BeZero Carbon is a climate credit ratings agency that helps organisations make smarter Net Zero decisions. We support clients through BeZero Carbon Markets, a data and analytics platform for the Voluntary Carbon Market.

Founded in April 2020, we are rapidly growing, with investor backing and an already enviable client list. Our 120-strong team combines expertise across climatic and earth sciences, remote sensing technologies, sell-side financial research, data and analytics, engineering, and public policy. We are based in London, but have people working across five continents.

We are on an exciting path to becoming one of the leading companies accelerating the Net Zero transition, helping organisations throughout the climate value chain and creating prosperity through climate action.

Job Description:

BeZero is looking for a Senior Project Delivery Manager to ensure that we execute on the many change projects that we have as part of our scale up plans. While many of the projects involve technology change this is a truly cross-functional role, which will be pivotal in ensuring communication flows between our content, research, product, engineering, data and other teams (e.g. operations, marketing)as we scale the BeZero Carbon Markets platform, as well as other areas of the business. The role will be a key point of contact for senior leadership on the different functional teams.

We are looking for someone who will ensure project delivery but who is not overly bound by a particular methodology or process - we want to get the job done and will leverage whatever tools help achieve our outcomes. Rolling up your sleeves and helping where needed is the name of the game!

Our ideal candidate will be able to run and deliver projects to tight timeframes, manage senior stakeholders, establish sensible processes in response to business requirements, and conduct business / process analysis and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data. You will likely have developed this skill having worked for about 8-10 years at a top management consultancy or some other relevant professional role.

Responsibilities:

• Stakeholder management of the Founders, Leadership and others engaged across the business and from third parties

• Independently run a portfolio of projects, across multiple projects and workstreams, that span across the business

• Programme and project management to ensure clear deliverables and timescales

• Business and process analysis to capture, clarify and define requirements

• Continuous improvement of core processes to deliver operational efficiencies

• Facilitate collaboration, communication and alignment between our engineering, product, research, content and data teams

• Manage plans, track progress and report status

• Track and report relevant KPIs

• Ensure data and information flows across the business are translated into meaningful business decisions

• Liaise with commercial and external teams to ensure connected approach to servicing clients

Our ideal candidate will have:

• 8-10 years experience in a relevant professional setting, ideally management consultancy or similar, working on multiple different projects

• The ability to work effectively under pressure within a fast-growing company

• Broad experience across projects delivering technology, process, organisational change

• Data literacy - able to competently interpret and handle quantitative and qualitative data sets

• Strong written and verbal communication

• Preferred: interest in climate and environmental topics more broadly

What we will offer:

• Opportunity to work in a cross-cutting role, interacting with lots of different parts of the business

• Ability to learn and develop alongside a range of sector specialists from the scientific, economic and business community

• Central London office space (Old Street) with flexibility to work from home + some flexibility over working location during the summer

• Growth opportunities that come from working at a fast-paced VC-backed technology business

• Competitive salary and opportunity for equity in a start-up through share options

• Regular social events

• 25 days leave (with additional time off between Christmas and New Year, and for your birthday)

• Private medical insurance, dental, critical illness cover, income protection, life assurance, medical cash plan, cycle to work scheme, and a health and wellness cash allowance

Our interview process:

• Initial screening interview

• Second interview + skills test

• Final interview with senior management

• Reference checks + offer