Carbon Insurance Project Leader - Zurich

💡 Company in transition
Long-term contract
Localisation Zurich
Posted on 03-08-2023

AXA Climate

La Raison d'être d'AXA Climate est d'aider la planète Terre à devenir une véritable partie prenante de toutes les entreprises. Notre Mission est l'adaptation climatique et environnementale.

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This company has begun its transition to improve its social and environmental impact. Only jobs that contribute directly to this transition are published here, such as CSR manager or carbon footprint project manager.

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La Raison d’être d’AXA Climate est de rendre universelle l’entreprise régénérative.

Réduire nos impacts négatifs sur la planète ne suffit pas. Notre enjeu collectif : transformer nos entreprises extractives en entreprises régénératives. Pour cela, nous transformons nos business models, nos organisations, nos missions collectives. Ce mouvement de transformation nous anime.
Au service de cette mission, 4 différents métiers : 

  • La formation - via des contenus digitaux, scientifiques pour mettre en mouvement tous les collaborateurs, leur donner les compétences et les outils. 
  • Le conseil - pour impacter en local, via des actions d’adaptation concrètes.
  • L’assurance et le financement - pour sécuriser celles et ceux qui s’adaptent, et impactent. 

With a strong expertise in modeling climate risks, AXA Climate is investing on Nature protection (understanding and modelling the links between climate and nature, quantify biodiversity impacts and dependencies, boost the green transition, etc).

AXA Climate is looking for a project leader who will develop and close a pipeline of deals related insurance of risk related to the carbon voluntary carbon market and more specifically on natural-climate solutions.

The mission will include developing a strong network of clients, building and closing a deal pipeline but also managing efficiently most of our risk carbon related projects. This mission will develop in parallel to our quantitative team which will support on the data, actuarial and pricing sides when needed.

Main Responsibilities:

Working closely with the Agriculture/Forestry Insurance Domain and in partnership with the Nature-based Solutions Domain, the Carbon Insurance Project leader will:

  • Create a portfolio of clients for carbon insurance products
    • Develop the expertise and build an offer according to the market appetite
    • Contribute to building a network on the VCM
    • Find new leads and ability to transform the opportunity into client

  • Manage carbon risk related projects:
    • Evaluate and validate partnerships with model and risk providers
    • Map on-going activities and manage project time-lines
    • Participate to the construction of our risk management carbon strategy
    • Define Objectives and Key Results associated to projects and strategy

  • Design new insurance products to cover risks related to investments into Natural climate Solutions
    • Have a strong entrepreneurial attitude with willingness to make things happen
    • Collaborate with experts to test other sources of data: satellite, new providers, …
    • Identify key issues surrounding risk and propose solutions
    • Explain technical concepts and share modeling approaches with team

Profile

Education:
• Agriculture or Environmental Engineering background or
• Top Business / Engineering school with a focus on sustainability

Competencies:
• Entrepreneur, business oriented, good at negotiation
• Soft skills: Autonomy, Integrity, Team spirit
• Project management: ability to sell and to secure deal delivery from A to Z
• Strong understanding of the carbon voluntary market, including standards and main actors
• Good scientific skills: analytical, statistics, probabilities

Experience / Background:
• A minimum of 3 years of professional experiences with an international background
• A previous experience in the Voluntary Carbon Market is important, having an existing network would significantly help.
• An experience in consulting or as a sales would be appreciated
• A previous experience in the insurance sector is a plus but not required

Languages
• Fluency in English required
• Other language is appreciated