Climate Manager

Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join us as a Climate Manager. The role focuses on developing and implementing a global climate strategy, including carbon accounting, energy and water efficiency. The position scales regenerative services to drive sustainability impact and commercial growth. This person will work closely with global and origin teams, supporting regulatory compliance and integration into the wider sustainability strategy. This role offers strong development potential within a leading organisation in the coffee trading industry.

Business Overview

Volcafe Ltd is one of the world’s leading international green coffee trading companies, operating in over 20 countries globally. Our expertise spans green coffee procurement and preparation, sustainability, blending, quality control, risk management and export as well as importing and distribution. We supply the world’s major coffee roasters and retail distributors with their green coffee requirements, with significant strategic growth ambitions for the future. We are part of ED&F Man Commodities, a world leading trader of agricultural products including coffee, sugar, molasses and animal feed.

Volcafe works across the whole green coffee supply chain to make coffee business better, together with our partners and employees. We have built and operate sustainable coffee supply chains across all our origins, addressing key economic, social and environmental issues in coffee farming communities. Our Volcafe Way farmer support programme engages with thousands of coffee farmers and provides a holistic response to the challenges they face.

This position can be located flexibly from any of our global offices, with a preference on LATAM, Amsterdam or Madrid.

Key Accountabilities

• Leading the development, implementation, and execution of the global climate strategy, ensuring alignment with organisational sustainability objectives.
• Designing and driving energy efficiency roadmaps, supported by robust cost–benefit analyses to optimise performance and investment decisions.
• Developing and implementing water efficiency strategies, leveraging data-driven insights and financial analysis to maximise impact.
• Overseeing comprehensive carbon accounting across scopes 1, 2 and 3, ensuring accuracy, transparency and alignment with global standards.
• Establishing and optimising digital workflows for carbon data collection, management and reporting across all operations.
• Conducting life cycle assessments across facilities to identify emissions hotspots and inform reduction strategies.
• Designing, implementing, and scaling regenerative carbon service offerings to drive commercial growth and increased service uptake.
• Defining and integrating baseline regenerative practices within core programmes to standardise and enhance sustainability outcomes.
• Developing tailored, market-responsive service offerings that address evolving customer needs and sustainability demands.
• Supporting the implementation of regulatory requirements, including the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), in collaboration with global and origin teams.
• Ensuring climate, regenerative services and regulatory insights are effectively integrated into the broader sustainability strategy.
• Embedding climate and sustainability activities within monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks to enable continuous improvement and impact tracking.