Next Gen Investment Specialist

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $110k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Canopy Planet Solutions

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51 - 200 employees

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Food & Beverage • Logistics • Consulting

Canopy Planet Solutions is a mission-driven non-profit organization focused on protecting forests, biodiversity, and the climate by transforming supply chains and promoting sustainable alternatives to forest-derived materials. The organization partners with brands, producers, NGOs, Indigenous leaders, and decision-makers to run initiatives like CanopyStyle, Pack4Good, and Next Gen, which aim to phase out the use of ancient and endangered forests in textiles, paper, and packaging and to scale next-generation alternatives. Canopy Planet Solutions also engages in research, advocacy, and fundraising, and provides tools and resources for brands to reduce forest risk and implement sustainable sourcing.

📋 Description

• Develop and coordinate Canopy’s strategy for deploying investment to scale Next Gen materials, including identifying capital needs by region • Expand Canopy’s Next Gen investor network and advance key investor partnerships • Build and maintain a qualified pipeline of Next Gen producers and projects across priority regions • Track opportunity progress, dependencies, decisions, and next steps • Assess feedstock security, technology and operational readiness, management capability, market demand, permitting, capital needs, and key risks • Test claims against primary sources and produce concise, evidence-based assessments • Identify project needs such as customer validation, conditional demand, feedstock agreements, technical support, financing, or policy changes • Review financial and techno-economic assumptions and clarify capital requirements and financing gaps • Help prepare projects for engagement with funders • Prepare briefings, evidence packs, and meeting materials for producers, brands, investors, and partners • Participate in selected external discussions and document decisions, commitments, and follow-up • Support regional strategies through market sizing, feedstock assessment, mill and converter mapping, and analysis of policy, trade, and infrastructure • Collaborate with the Senior Director of Next Gen Transformation and colleagues across producer engagement, brand partnerships, investment, regional strategies, and research

🎯 Requirements

• Approximately 3 to 5 years of relevant experience in investment or market analysis, project finance, corporate development, management consulting, supply-chain analysis, or a related field • Experience in the industrial, infrastructure, or commodities sectors is helpful • Strong analytical judgement and ability to test claims, locate reliable evidence, identify missing information, and distinguish genuine progress from announcements • Comfort working with financial and techno-economic models, including questioning assumptions and explaining implications clearly • Systems perspective across supply, demand, finance, policy, infrastructure, and relationships • Clear written and verbal communication skills • Strong organization and follow-through across multiple projects, regions, and contributors • Professional judgement and discretion with commercially sensitive or unannounced information • Confidence with spreadsheets, research databases, and other analytical tools, with ability to learn new systems quickly • Knowledge of pulp, fibre, packaging, textiles, circular materials, or relevant regional markets is an asset • CV, cover letter, and separate 300–400-word response to the application prompt required; applications missing the cover letter or prompt response will not be considered