Manager, Environmental Attributes

Company: CF Industries
Location: Northbrook
Posted on: February 18, 2025

Job Description:

At CF Industries, our mission is to provide clean energy to feed and fuel the world sustainably. Our employees are focused on safe and reliable operations, environmental stewardship, and disciplined capital and corporate management. By joining CF, you will be part of a team that brings their varied experiences, wide-ranging knowledge and diverse talents together to deliver important work and you'll be able to pursue complex, exciting opportunities that help you continue to grow and achieve your potential in different areas. You'll take pride in working for a company that lives its values and where you can be yourself at work, as part of an authentic team that encourages you to share your views and opinions. Our eight manufacturing complexes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, an unparalleled storage, transportation and distribution network in North America, and logistics capabilities enabling a global reach underpin our strategy to leverage our unique capabilities to accelerate the world's transition to clean energy.

Function:

Job Summary:

This role will be responsible for the development and implementation of CF's strategy for certification of low carbon products and registration and management of environmental attributes. The candidate will play a strategic role in overseeing the generation, registration, sales and use of environmental attributes for new and ongoing projects. The candidate will become familiar with relevant global policies and standards and engage with industry groups and policymakers to advocate for standards and policies that are supportive of decarbonization and clean energy demand growth within CF's target markets. This position will be successful by working cross-functionally with CF's manufacturing, sales, public affairs, and accounting teams.

Job Description:

This role will be responsible for the development and implementation of CF's strategy for certification of low carbon products and registration and management of environmental attributes. The candidate will play a strategic role in overseeing the generation, registration, sales and use of environmental attributes for new and ongoing projects. The candidate will become familiar with relevant global policies and standards and engage with industry groups and policymakers to advocate for standards and policies that are supportive of decarbonization and clean energy demand growth within CF's target markets. This position will be successful by working cross-functionally with CF's manufacturing, sales, public affairs, and accounting teams.

Job Description

• Build and enhance organizational knowledge related to product carbon intensity, including certification methodologies and applicable standards and regulatory policies in all regions of the world
• Assess ability of CF's products to access globally relevant decarbonized product markets and identify certification and policy requirements and any gaps.
• Analyze and forecast environmental attribute generation, demand, and low-C product sales opportunities to inform decarbonization attribute generation and sales and marketing strategies.
• Manage the registration and use and procurement of environmental attributes, inclusive of low-C product sales, carbon credits, renewable energy certificates, and certified natural gas.
• Support the design and implementation of external low-carbon product certification programs through representation on standards committees and with customers
• Collaborate with policymakers and industry stakeholders to advocate for standards and regulations that support decarbonization efforts
• Assess globally available low-carbon product specifications to inform the development CF product specifications
• Provide input to the development of CF's low carbon product business processes to maximize value, ensure compliance with relevant standards, and allow for market growth
• Support negotiation of related provisions of decarbonization attribute and low carbon product sales and marketing agreements.
  
  Qualifications
  
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, finance, economics, statistics, environmental science
  • 5+ years of relevant experience in a relevant field of sustainability, energy or environmental
  • Proven experience in clean energy, sustainability, or environmental policy, particularly related to industrial decarbonization strategies.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to forecast and assess market opportunities.
  • Knowledge and previous use of standards and frameworks that relate to the carbon footprinting of products (ISO 14067, GHG Protocol, ISCC, Together for Sustainability)
  • Familiarity with GHG reduction strategies and certification programs is highly desirable.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with experience engaging in large forums with industry groups, policymakers and other stakeholders to advocate for a position.
    
    The estimated base pay for the position is typically between $120,600 - $169,700.
    
    The actual base pay for the position may be influenced by factors such as education, training, skills, qualifications, competencies, years of experience, job-related knowledge, and scope of the role, and could be outside of the posted pay range.
    
    In addition to base pay, an incentive program is available to all full-time employees, and a comprehensive benefits package including two medical plan options, a health savings plan with a company contribution and a match, dental and vision benefits, a well-being incentive program, 401(k) Plan which provides a potential of receiving between 10% and 13% of employer's contribution, life and disability insurance, paid time off programs and much more! Additionally, we offer several Flexible Work Arrangements to support a healthy work-life balance.
    
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    The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by person(s) assigned to this job. These statements are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel in this position.
    
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