<h3>Your role</h3><p>As <span>Head of Sustainability </span>at Tanso, you play a crucial role in scaling up Tanso’s thought leadership and direct impact. Leverage your background in sustainability and strategy, with your ability to structure complex business challenges to help the backbone of European industry transform to a more sustainable way of doing business.</p><p>Our mission is to support producing companies using their sustainability data for better company decisions. Our software platform helps sustainability teams spend less time on reporting to have more time for what actually matters. With Tanso in place, C-level has the analytical insight to holistically drive sustainable transformation.</p><p>Your responsibility is to enable producing companies to establish processes to track, understand, report and act upon their impacts on the world, embedding sustainability into their business strategy. To do this, you need a strong methodological foundation of regulation and sustainability and experience in corporate strategy.</p><p>By joining Tanso in a phase of accelerated growth, this role gives you the unique opportunity to work with one of the biggest industry verticals in Europe, implementing a mature yet quickly evolving product to accelerate the decarbonization of hard to abate industries and meeting changing regulations.</p><p> </p><h3>How you succeed</h3><h3>Own our methodological approaches and back it with research</h3><ul><li>Research, structure, analyze, and simplify regulations and sustainability frameworks to develop clear methodological playbooks for our customers and their sustainability challenges</li><li>Closely collaborate with partner companies such as consultancies, auditors and other stakeholders in the sustainability ecosystem to regularly challenge and update our methodological approach with changing regulatory and market dynamics</li><li>Scope, start, and monitor research projects for topics such as newly introduced sustainability regulations, carbon pricing, transition plans, and engage with experts to ensure offer state-of-the-art sustainability methodology</li></ul><h3>Empower customers with industry best practices, process guidance and data analytics, supporting them in reaching their sustainability goals</h3><ul><li>Co-develop methodological guidance together with Customer Success to provide customers with insightful content such as guides, checklists or in-app wiki articles</li><li>Support Marketing in cross-checking content for methodological correctness and establish ourselves as thought leaders for sustainability reporting and industrial decarbonization</li><li>Help push adoption, enablement and impact of our product by engaging with customer data, collaboratively working out the business case for sustainable change</li></ul><h3>Lead and scale our team of specialists for research and ensuring a highly effective enablement for internal teams and customers</h3><ul><li>Build up and lead a team of climate researchers, regulatory specialists, ex-consultants, and ex-auditors leveraging their unique strengths and expertise to create clarity, insight, and impact for our customers</li><li>Closely collaborate with Product development and Customer Success, with methodological insights to improve our offering end-to-end with new software features, services, or with partners</li><li>Own extraordinary projects with strategic key accounts such as requirement scoping with co-development customers or supporting with Tanso implementation in complex accounts</li></ul><h3> </h3><h3>Why Tanso?</h3><ul><li><span>Your work helps producing companies integrate sustainability in their decision making. You will directly influence how companies understand, act upon and report on sustainability.</span></li><li>You are joining the company in a phase of accelerated growth. With proven product-market fit, a growing base of reference customers, and strong market momentum, we’re scaling fast in a space that truly matters.</li><li>We expect a lot, but also offer you a highly competitive compensation package with an attractive equity package to participate in Tanso’s growth.</li><li>Our team thrives on embracing uncertainty. We work in cross-functional teams to tackle ambitious challenges, actively seek feedback, and are strong believers in interdisciplinary.</li><li>We’re a diverse group of people, and that diversity is what makes our experience extraordinary. With team members from various backgrounds, disciplines, and cultures, we bring unique perspectives to everything we do and are always eager to learn from each other.</li><li>We offer an environment that puts your needs first. You’ll get access to sponsored EGYM Wellpass to find inner peace at yoga or kill it at HIIT workouts with the team.</li><li>Our team is fun - we are convinced that work needs to be fun too. We are proud to have an outstanding team NPS and regularly organize team events to keep up the spirit.<span> </span></li></ul><h3> </h3><h3>Whom you will be working with</h3><ul><li>Gyri Reiersen, CPO - Supervisor</li><li>Vignesh Iyer, Senior Carbon Specialist</li><li>Tabea Hosak, Sustainability &amp; Decarbonization Specialist</li><li>Flavia Großhennrich, Sustainability Success Manager</li></ul><h3> </h3><h3>Recruitment process</h3><ol><li><span>Get to know Tanso - learn more about us, ask your questions, and let’s explore together whether it’s a mutual fit.</span></li><li>Role Introduction with Gyri - understand your role and see whom you will be working with.</li><li>Deep dive with Gyri and Carlo to get to know the team - get a feeling for the tasks ahead of you and meet your future colleagues.<span> </span></li></ol><h3> </h3><h3>Hard requirements</h3><ul><li>You already live or are willing to relocate to Munich.</li><li>You must have a pre-existing working permit for the EU.</li><li>You must speak English at level C1 or higher.</li><li>You must speak German at level C2.</li></ul><p><strong>You're wondering why there isn't a longer list of hard requirements in the job description?</strong> We believe it's more important that you are excited about the role and want to grow with it, instead of fulfilling some specific high-level requirements. We think there can be numerous different paths that could qualify you for this role, and we want to hear YOUR story.</p>

<p>Tanso Technologies is a software company based in Munich that offers a climate intelligence suite to industrial companies, with its solution for Corporate Carbon Footprint (CCF), Product Carbon Footprint (PCF), and ESG management for ESRS compliance. Tanso&rsquo;s solution is supported by the European Innovation Council (EIC), as well as notable VC funds like Capnamic, UVC Partners, and Picus Capital, and is used by leading German industrial companies.</p>

Head of Sustainability (f/m/x)

<h3>Your role</h3><p>As <span>Head of Sustainability </span>at Tanso, you play a crucial role in scaling up Tanso’s thought leadership and direct impact. Leverage your background in sustainability and strategy, with your ability to structure complex business challenges to help the backbone of European industry transform to a more sustainable way of doing business.</p><p>Our mission is to support producing companies using their sustainability data for better company decisions. Our software platform helps sustainability teams spend less time on reporting to have more time for what actually matters. With Tanso in place, C-level has the analytical insight to holistically drive sustainable transformation.</p><p>Your responsibility is to enable producing companies to establish processes to track, understand, report and act upon their impacts on the world, embedding sustainability into their business strategy. To do this, you need a strong methodological foundation of regulation and sustainability and experience in corporate strategy.</p><p>By joining Tanso in a phase of accelerated growth, this role gives you the unique opportunity to work with one of the biggest industry verticals in Europe, implementing a mature yet quickly evolving product to accelerate the decarbonization of hard to abate industries and meeting changing regulations.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h3>How you succeed</h3><h3>Own our methodological approaches and back it with research</h3><ul><li>Research, structure, analyze, and simplify regulations and sustainability frameworks to develop clear methodological playbooks for our customers and their sustainability challenges</li><li>Closely collaborate with partner companies such as consultancies, auditors and other stakeholders in the sustainability ecosystem to regularly challenge and update our methodological approach with changing regulatory and market dynamics</li><li>Scope, start, and monitor research projects for topics such as newly introduced sustainability regulations, carbon pricing, transition plans, and engage with experts to ensure offer state-of-the-art sustainability methodology</li></ul><h3>Empower customers with industry best practices, process guidance and data analytics, supporting them in reaching their sustainability goals</h3><ul><li>Co-develop methodological guidance together with Customer Success to provide customers with insightful content such as guides, checklists or in-app wiki articles</li><li>Support Marketing in cross-checking content for methodological correctness and establish ourselves as thought leaders for sustainability reporting and industrial decarbonization</li><li>Help push adoption, enablement and impact of our product by engaging with customer data, collaboratively working out the business case for sustainable change</li></ul><h3>Lead and scale our team of specialists for research and ensuring a highly effective enablement for internal teams and customers</h3><ul><li>Build up and lead a team of climate researchers, regulatory specialists, ex-consultants, and ex-auditors leveraging their unique strengths and expertise to create clarity, insight, and impact for our customers</li><li>Closely collaborate with Product development and Customer Success, with methodological insights to improve our offering end-to-end with new software features, services, or with partners</li><li>Own extraordinary projects with strategic key accounts such as requirement scoping with co-development customers or supporting with Tanso implementation in complex accounts</li></ul><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Why Tanso?</h3><ul><li><span>Your work helps producing companies integrate sustainability in their decision making. You will directly influence how companies understand, act upon and report on sustainability.</span></li><li>You are joining the company in a phase of accelerated growth. With proven product-market fit, a growing base of reference customers, and strong market momentum, we’re scaling fast in a space that truly matters.</li><li>We expect a lot, but also offer you a highly competitive compensation package with an attractive equity package to participate in Tanso’s growth.</li><li>Our team thrives on embracing uncertainty. We work in cross-functional teams to tackle ambitious challenges, actively seek feedback, and are strong believers in interdisciplinary.</li><li>We’re a diverse group of people, and that diversity is what makes our experience extraordinary. With team members from various backgrounds, disciplines, and cultures, we bring unique perspectives to everything we do and are always eager to learn from each other.</li><li>We offer an environment that puts your needs first. You’ll get access to sponsored EGYM Wellpass to find inner peace at yoga or kill it at HIIT workouts with the team.</li><li>Our team is fun - we are convinced that work needs to be fun too. We are proud to have an outstanding team NPS and regularly organize team events to keep up the spirit.<span>&nbsp;</span></li></ul><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Whom you will be working with</h3><ul><li>Gyri Reiersen, CPO - Supervisor</li><li>Vignesh Iyer, Senior Carbon Specialist</li><li>Tabea Hosak, Sustainability &amp; Decarbonization Specialist</li><li>Flavia Großhennrich, Sustainability Success Manager</li></ul><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Recruitment process</h3><ol><li><span>Get to know Tanso - learn more about us, ask your questions, and let’s explore together whether it’s a mutual fit.</span></li><li>Role Introduction with Gyri - understand your role and see whom you will be working with.</li><li>Deep dive with Gyri and Carlo to get to know the team - get a feeling for the tasks ahead of you and meet your future colleagues.<span>&nbsp;</span></li></ol><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Hard requirements</h3><ul><li>You already live or are willing to relocate to Munich.</li><li>You must have a pre-existing working permit for the EU.</li><li>You must speak English at level C1 or higher.</li><li>You must speak German at level C2.</li></ul><p><strong>You're wondering why there isn't a longer list of hard requirements in the job description?</strong> We believe it's more important that you are excited about the role and want to grow with it, instead of fulfilling some specific high-level requirements. We think there can be numerous different paths that could qualify you for this role, and we want to hear YOUR story.</p>

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