Manager, Industry Decarbonization, Aluminium

The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the international organization for public-private cooperation.

The Forum engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

**Why we are recruiting**

The Forum’s Platform for Energy, Materials and Infrastructure Platform (ENMATI) supports business, governments, and society in building resilience to today’s challenges while undertaking the transformations necessary to deliver on the energy, materials and infrastructure needed for the future.

The Forum’s Center for Climate and Nature (CNC) acts as a system leader for the environment and natural resource security, food security, development finance and sustainable development activities at the Forum. It also hosts the Forum’s Climate Action Platform and the Circular Economy for net-zero industry transitions programme, which aims to scale circular economy solutions for the decarbonization of heavy industry.

The Mission Possible Partnership (MPP) is an alliance of climate leaders focused on supercharging efforts to decarbonize some of the world’s highest emitting industries in the next 10 years. These efforts build on the foundation laid by the original Mission Possible Platform, launched in 2019 by the Energy Transitions Commission and the World Economic Forum, to expand and accelerate the work of seven industry working groups in aluminium, aviation, cement and concrete, chemicals, shipping, steel and trucking.

The Forum is seeking to hire an Industry Decarbonization Sector Manager for Aluminium and Steel sectors to continue building and drive industry and multistakeholder coalitions in the context of the Mission Possible Partnership, the First Mover Coalition, as well as other sector or regional initiatives.

**Reporting Lines & Interactions**

The Sector Manager will report to the Head of Energy, Materials, Infrastructure Program - Industrial Transformation, one of four programs inside the ENMATI platform **.**

Externally, the work will involve interactions with a broad range of stakeholders and partner companies in the Aluminium & Steel industries, but also with relevant industry bodies and associations as well as public and private stakeholders.

**Main responsibilities**
- Project management- Ensure successful delivery of Aluminium & Steel initiatives and workplans.
- Deliver and curate relevant workstreams to support development of the projects.
- Develop and guide governance leadership of initiative.
- Prepare progress reports to ENMATI and Mission Possible Partnership leadership.
- Identify lessons learned and contribute to ongoing improvement of project and workstreams.
- Partner Engagement and Stakeholder Management- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders - companies, Mission Possible Partnership partners, FMC partners and ecosystem stakeholders including value chain partners, financial institutions, governments and civil society organisations.
- Build and manage trusted relationships with internal stakeholders to support the partner engagement cycle and partner management activities.
- Integrate new partner companies in the Mission Possible Partnership framework, working with relevant Business Engagement colleagues, industry teams and Heads of Industries.
- Impact Reporting and Results Measurement- Develop, drive the delivery and monitor the impact reporting and results measurement workstream for the for Aluminium & Steel sectors in the context of the Mission Possible Partnership.
- Impact: extent to which the planned milestones and overall objectives of the alliances and coalitions are achieved in the context of the Mission Possible Partnership.
- Value delivered: participation in teams delivering Forum activities including project and institutional events.
- Contributions to thought leadership, the refinement of the platform and the industry value proposition, and the initiatives outside own portfolio.
- Quality, responsiveness, resourcefulness, and overall support of engaged initiatives
- Level of collaboration, internal and external.

**Preferred requirements and experience**:

- Broad intellectual background and interests with a Master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant topic: business administration, economics, engineering or the physical sciences; and a proven interest in global affairs
- Knowledge of the mining and metals industry acquired through 7-10 years of professional experience in areas such as business strategy, technical development, venture management, operations;
- Experience across more than one sector welcome i.e. business, consultancy, government, academia, or international organisations
- Experience with project portfolio management methodologies and tools, and familiarity with project management practices
- Experience fostering collaboration across various stakeholder groups acquired from growing partnerships and alliances; solid understanding of val