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From our offices in London, Amsterdam, New York and Singapore, Acre connects sustainability executives with high impact organisations globally. Since 2003, we’ve provided sustainability & low carbon expertise to the boardroom and have delivered against some of the world's most complex requirements.
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Acre is the global leader in sustainability recruitment, placing experienced climate change, renewables, ESG and impact professionals across the globe. With unrivalled networks developed since 2003, we connect exceptional talent to organisations driving positive environmental and social impact.
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Acre’s contract and interim recruitment services provide flexible and rapid access to sustainability, cleantech, renewable energy & impact talent. We connect organisations with skilled professionals for high impact, short-term projects and specialist business needs.
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Acre’s advisory services empower organisations to build high-performing sustainability teams. We provide insights, benchmarking, and strategic advice to enhance talent capabilities and drive impactful environmental, social, and governance outcomes.
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Acre is the global leader in sustainability recruitment and executive search, connecting businesses with the very best ESG, low carbon solutions and mission-critical infrastructure talent worldwide.
With offices across Europe, Asia and the Americas, we’ve built the most powerful network of sustainability professionals, from executive leaders to technical experts and interim specialists.
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Current Opportunities
Senior Manager, Carbon
Acre is partnered with a leading North American forest-products and timberland business to appoint a Senior Manager, Carbon Sales & Marketing.
This is a high-impact commercial role within a growing Climate Solutions platform. The successful candidate will help commercialize a high-integrity forest-carbon portfolio, build long-term buyer and partner relationships, and convert market demand into completed carbon-credit transactions.
The role offers the opportunity to help build a scalable commercial engine for a major landowner with a substantial forest footprint, established forestry expertise and ambitious growth plans in natural climate solutions.
The role
The Senior Manager, Carbon Sales & Marketing will lead execution of the carbon portfolio sales plan, taking responsibility for buyer engagement, pipeline management, transaction coordination and sales forecasting.
This is not a purely strategic or technical carbon role. It requires a commercially rigorous, relationship-led professional who can engage credibly with sophisticated corporate buyers, intermediaries, procurement partners and other stakeholders across the voluntary carbon market.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Execute sales-generation activity in line with the carbon commercialization strategy and revenue objectives.
- Identify, qualify and develop relationships with prospective corporate buyers, intermediaries, advisors and strategic partners.
- Progress opportunities from initial engagement through buyer diligence, commercial negotiation, internal approval and transaction completion.
- Own sales-pipeline management, including lead qualification, account planning, deal prioritization, forecasting and regular reporting on conversion and revenue performance.
- Coordinate transaction execution, including term sheets, RFP responses, buyer diligence, contracting inputs, milestones and cross-functional approvals.
- Maintain oversight of credit availability, portfolio demand, pricing scenarios and revenue expectations.
- Represent the forest-carbon portfolio at selected customer meetings, industry events and market forums.
- Bring market intelligence into the business, identifying buyer needs, pricing signals, competitive developments and opportunities to improve the commercial process.
- Work closely with internal colleagues across carbon project development, forestry, legal, finance, marketing and strategic land solutions.
About you
You will be a commercially minded carbon, environmental commodities, renewable energy or climate-solutions professional with a demonstrable record of managing complex sales processes and building senior external relationships.
Direct experience selling voluntary carbon credits, particularly forest carbon, nature-based solutions or other high-integrity carbon products, will be highly relevant. However, the organization is also open to candidates from adjacent environmental commodity markets, including EACs, RECs, renewable-energy procurement and other environmental commodities, provided they can demonstrate strong enterprise sales discipline and a credible understanding of carbon-market dynamics.
You will bring:
- 8+ years of relevant commercial, sales, business-development or account-management experience.
- A record of executing commercial plans, developing buyer pipelines and delivering revenue-focused outcomes.
- Experience owning complex, multi-stakeholder sales processes from prospecting through contracting and close.
- Strong commercial judgement across pipeline health, sales forecasting, pricing scenarios, portfolio availability and revenue expectations.
- The ability to build trusted, long-term relationships with corporates, procurement teams, intermediaries, advisors and other market participants.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex carbon-market and portfolio information clearly.
- Confidence working across legal, finance, technical and operational stakeholders to progress transactions.
- Advanced Excel capability; experience using Power BI or comparable analytics and reporting tools is preferred.
- Experience in voluntary carbon markets, environmental commodities, sustainability, renewable energy or a related commercial market.
- A thoughtful, credible and values-led approach to representing a major landowner in an increasingly scrutinised carbon market.
Location and travel
This role is remote within the United States.
The successful candidate should be comfortable traveling up to 50% for customer meetings, conferences, internal collaboration and other market-facing activity.
Apply
If you are interested in building demand for a high-integrity forest-carbon portfolio and want to play a central role in scaling a leading Climate Solutions platform, please apply directly or contact Lewis Murray at lewis.murray@acresearch.com for a confidential discussion.
Acre is committed to building inclusive and diverse talent pools. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.
2 days ago
Spotlight
Raising the Standard: A New Competency Framework for the Health & Safety Profession
When we last reviewed the Health and Safety Competency Framework in 2019, it was before COVID, before the rapid emergence of AI, and before many of the changes we are now seeing in how and where organisations operate. Businesses are growing quickly and moving into new markets whilst operating across increasingly complex global supply chains and responding to changing legislative, societal and reporting expectations.
At the same time, our understanding of what it means to keep people safe and well is broadening. The profession is increasingly expected to consider not only physical health and safety, but psychological health and safety and the wider factors that influence wellbeing at work. Along with this, organisations are asking more of every function: how are you enabling the business to perform? This question is as relevant for Health and Safety as any other function. Health and Safety has risked being perceived as primarily a compliance activity - something organisations have to do, rather than something that enables them to do great work.
>> Read the full report here
The opportunity for the profession is to change that. This doesn't mean technical expertise matters less. It remains fundamental. But technical knowledge alone isn't enough to create impact. Today's Health and Safety professional needs to understand the organisation they operate within: its ambitions, pressures, people, performance measures and priorities. They need to understand how work affects people physically and psychologically, and be able to apply their expertise pragmatically, influence decisions, enable others and help the organisation consciously manage risk as it grows and changes. Put simply, our role is not just to make work safe. It is to help organisations do great work safely.
And that requires us to keep evolving too. The purpose of revisiting the framework in 2026 was therefore not simply to update a set of competencies. It was to challenge ourselves again as a profession: what does it take to be truly effective and make an impact in Health and Safety today - and what will we need for the future? Our mission hasn't changed. We want people to go home safe and well. But as the world around us changes, we cannot become complacent about the capabilities required to achieve it.
This framework has always been shaped by the profession, for the profession. The first iteration was developed in 2015, followed by a significant review in 2019. In 2026, we returned to the profession to test what still stood up, what needed to evolve and what might be missing. We deliberately sought input from a broad range of Health and Safety professionals, drawing on the Acre network, previous contributors, professional networks, forums and social media to extend participation beyond those already close to the framework.
These participants made up an active working group which had a global footprint. The working group was invited to review the existing framework and contribute through a survey and/or structured interview. We asked four deliberately simple questions: What's missing? What do you disagree with or believe is over-emphasised? Which three competencies matter most for Health and Safety professionals in 2026, and why? What should the framework encourage more of over the coming years? The structured interviews allowed us to probe those answers more deeply, before drawing together the recurring themes and using them to challenge and reshape the framework.
Throughout the process, we maintained one important lens: this is a non-technical competency framework. When themes such as AI and emerging technology arose, for example, we considered the underlying capability a professional needs to navigate them - curiosity, continuous learning, judgement and the ability to critically evaluate what is useful and appropriate - rather than creating competencies around individual technologies that may quickly change. What was perhaps most striking was how much of the previous framework stood the test of time.
This wasn't a case for starting again. Instead, the research highlighted where emphasis needed to shift and where some capabilities needed to become much more explicit. A revised framework was then shared with the working group for further validation, with the final round of feedback incorporated into the 2026 edition. The result is a deliberately simple structure: three Foundations that apply throughout a career, followed by Business Partnering and Leadership levels.
>> Read the full report here
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