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Canopy Planet Solutions

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51 - 200 employees

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

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

• Manage and activate a cohort of global brands, working with their procurement, technical, and executive teams to build commitments to procure paper packaging containing Next Gen pulp. • Facilitate agreement among cohort brands on common paper and packaging types, target suppliers, and volume commitments — navigating competing corporate specifications, timelines, and internal approval processes • Support brands in structuring and signing advanced market commitments (AMCs) or offtake agreements for products not yet in commercial production, including navigating legal frameworks around supply chain coordination • Troubleshoot barriers to brand activation — including marketing delays, R&D concerns, and green premium pricing — by framing risk, building confidence in technology, and ensuring supply chain economics work for brands • Build and maintain relationships with cohort brand contacts over time, serving as a trusted and credible interface between Canopy and corporate procurement and sustainability teams • Collaborate with the P4G brand, producer, and Next Gen teams to ensure brands have what they need on technology confidence, supply chain structure, and pricing — preventing unnecessary green premiums from being layered through the value chain • Work with the producer and Next Gen teams to identify and map priority producers in target regions; understand their customer base, feedstock relationships, and readiness to engage with a brand cohort customer model • Identify the placement of two or more supplier-centric cohorts structured around specific Next Gen producers in priority regions • Support cross-team coordination to ensure supply chains are pre-aligned and ready to present to cohort brands when windows for activation arise

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated knowledge of industrial supply chains — particularly pulp and paper, packaging, or adjacent forest fibre commodities (e.g., palm oil, MMCF) or other commodity products for packaging • Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder processes or coalitions involving large corporate actors, including navigating competing interests, procurement timelines, and corporate decision-making structures • Strong project management skills; able to track multiple workstreams, manage competing demands, and maintain momentum across a complex portfolio • Negotiation and facilitation skills; comfortable managing conversations between parties with differing interests to reach workable agreements • Strategic thinking combined with the discipline to stay focused on organizational priorities — able to identify relevant opportunities without being diverted by tangential opportunities • Entrepreneurial and adaptive problem-solver; comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving contexts without a defined road map • Excellent collaborator; proven ability to work across internal teams and break down silos to advance shared objectives • Patient with process, impatient for outcomes — able to work at the pace of large corporate institutions while maintaining urgency around results • Experience in or meaningful connections to East Asian markets is an asset; willingness to travel to priority regions • Strong communication skills, including the ability to develop compelling partnership narratives and translate strategy into action • Comfort operating in a dynamic environment with multiple moving parts and evolving opportunities • Passion for environmental conservation, social impact, and mission-driven work strongly preferred • Embrace a “Yes, AND...” mindset to foster innovation and collaboration

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities