Lead Climate Scientist – Sales and Advisory

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £70k - £80k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤑 Sales

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Supercritical

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🏪 Marketplace

Marketplace • Environment • Climate Tech

Supercritical is a carbon removal marketplace that assists corporate buyers in navigating the carbon removal market. The platform enables companies to build portfolios of vetted credits and securely transact spot purchases and offtake agreements. Supercritical provides live pricing and availability data on carbon removals, along with a comprehensive vetting protocol covering 118 criteria. The marketplace supports various removal methods such as biochar, enhanced weathering, and direct air capture, ensuring buyers can make informed and confident investments in carbon reduction projects.

📋 Description

• Lead defined-scope client engagements end to end, including scoping, proposal contributions, delivery to timeline and budget, and presenting findings to senior client stakeholders • Work with the Director of Climate Science and Policy on the largest advisory engagements and own substantial workstreams • Build expertise in policy and standards governing corporate buyers, including SBTi Corporate Net Zero Standard v2, UK and EU compliance markets, and greenhouse gas removal standards • Produce assessment reports, strategy documents, portfolio and price models, and board-ready summaries • Support sales and marketing initiatives promoting climate thought leadership and educating potential CDR buyers • Cultivate relationships with CDR buyers, support CDR portfolio development and share market insights • Maintain expertise on CDR project suppliers and current scientific developments in climate science • Direct external associates and junior colleagues on engagements • Progressively take leadership of larger and more complex advisory engagements • Help build Supercritical's advisory practice from its first engagements

🎯 Requirements

• MSc Degree or higher in chemical engineering, environmental science or relevant natural sciences such as chemistry; OR BEng/BSc with relevant work experience (e.g., 5+ years) • Expertise in carbon dioxide removal (CDR), including in-depth aptitude across multiple engineered CDR pathways such as biochar, BECCS, mineralisation, ERW and DACCS • Demonstrable experience delivering client-facing consulting, advisory or commissioned research projects • Experience owning a deliverable to a deadline for an external client • Previous experience working in the climate and sustainability field • Previous experience in a client-facing role or engaging with industrial stakeholders • Excellent written communication • Excellent communication skills and passion for clear scientific communication • Comfort with scoping advisory engagements, estimating effort and protecting scope during delivery • Resilience and adaptability to ambiguity • Curiosity and broad understanding of carbon, climate and sustainability issues • High attention to detail • Willingness to learn and openness to training • Excellent analytical skills • Good proficiency with Excel/spreadsheets • Working knowledge of policy and standards relevant to corporate buyers, such as SBTi, GHG Protocol, EU or UK ETS, BSI Flex, Puro.earth or Isometric • PhD in a relevant discipline (nice to have) • Experience at a consultancy, engineering firm or research programme selling work to external clients (nice to have) • Experience managing subcontractors, associates or junior team members (nice to have) • Published research or contributions to standards, methodologies or government evidence (nice to have) • Applicants outside the UK must be within 3 hours of GMT/BST, willing to travel to London quarterly, and use an Employer of Record arrangement • UK sponsorship is unavailable

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited Annual Leave • The first Friday of every month is a company-wide day off • Pension contribution: employer matches 5% employee contribution with 3% • Flexible hybrid work: remote first, with option to use London co-working space in Work.life Old Street • £1,000 annual wellbeing allowance • Up to £500 for home office equipment • Monthly company gatherings in London • Annual company multi-day offsites • Training, mentoring and support from the experienced Director of Climate Science and Policy • Training on the commercial CDR vetting framework