Head of Growth Operations

About CDP:  

CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system. As the founder of environmental reporting, we believe in transparency and the power of data to drive change. 

Partnering with leaders in enterprise, capital, policy and science, we surface the information needed to enable Earth-positive decisions. We helped more than 24,800 companies and almost 1,000 cities, states and regions disclose their environmental impacts in 2024. Financial institutions with more than a quarter of the world’s institutional assets use CDP data to help inform investment and lending decisions. 

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About the Team:

The CGO team brings together strategy, partnerships, fundraising, and impact measurement to support CDP's global objectives. Working across philanthropic, institutional, and corporate engagement, the team cultivates strategic opportunities, sharpens CDP's value proposition, and ensures alignment between resources and outcomes. With an evolving scope, the team is designed to be collaborative, future focused, and agile in a fast-changing landscape.

Growth Operations provides strategic alignment and coordination across the various Growth functions, supports bilateral working relationships across other CDP teams in a collaborative and cross-functional manner, and guides innovative and nascent Growth Team projects and initiatives to maturity.

About this role:

As part of the restructured Growth Team, the Head of Growth Operations plays a critical role in driving strategic initiatives, fostering innovation, ensuring operational excellence, and supporting cross-functional coordination and collaboration to advance CDP's growth objectives.

This position serves as an advisor and strategic thought partner to the CGO, supporting informed decision-making through analysis, insight, and operational recommendations

Acting across CDP functions and geographies, the HGO plays a key role both in BAU operations, strategy, and key change initiatives, surfacing and addressing issues and helping to design solutions that enable CDP to work more effectively and efficiently.

The Head of Growth Operations will coordinate team priorities, interface with other CDP teams to support and represent Growth teams and initiatives, support high-impact innovation projects, and enhance strategic decision-making. This role will work closely with other teams within Growth, with particular attention to oversight of strategic partnerships and innovation initiatives.

This broad, high-impact role requires agility and breadth as a strategist, analysist, and facilitator. The incumbent is adept at working on a wide range of issues and needs; a quick learner and comfortable with complexity; is financially literate; can analyse and understand a wide range of drivers; and communicates clearly across functional and geographic lines

What you will do:

Strategy & Project Management:

• Strategic support: Act as an operational and strategic supporting partner to the CGO, ensuring key priorities are translated into clear, actionable plans
• Foster innovation: Drive innovation projects and initiatives on the Growth team through advisory support, management, and mentorship as appropriate and determined by the CGO
• Coaching & advisory: Support Growth Team leads in advancing decision-ready proposals and initiatives to the CGO that align with CDP mission priorities and advance organizational strategic goals
• Project oversight: Lead the strategic planning and operational delivery of specified initiatives and projects within the Growth team when appropriate as determined by the CGO

Internal Liaison and Coordination:

• Triage & Prioritize: Reviewing key priorities with Chief Growth Officer and supporting delegation of tasks and dissemination of information within the function
• Updating: Summarizing and sharing key updates, risks, and decision points to Chief Growth Officer
• Coordination: Lead cross-functional planning and coordination to support high-priority initiatives, connecting dots across Growth teams and surfacing interdependencies and opportunities for improved ways of working
• Change management: Support internal change management efforts, ensuring smooth integration of team functions and evolving priorities are consistently adopted

Representing Growth Team Internally and Externally:

• Interfacing: Support the bilateral integration of Growth Team priorities, projects, and initiatives ac