LeasePlan is the world’s largest car-as-a-service provider. They address the most important environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues of our time, including understanding and managing the group’s climate risks and opportunities to ensure our business resilience across potential climate futures. The Interim Climate Risk Manager will oversee  implementing the ECB Guide on climate-related and environmental risk within the first line.

About LeasePlan

LeasePlan is a global leader in car-as-a-service that manages approximately 1.9 million vehicles in over 30 countries. They purchase, fund and manage new vehicles for customers. And they provide complete end-to-end service with a typical client contracts that last three to four years. LeasePlan’s mission is to help clients focus on their future by providing what’s next in sustainable mobility.

LeasePlan expects to accelerated growth in all market segments. This goal is fueled by the full-service subscription megatrend, demand for e-commerce related delivery vehicles and increased need for car-as-a-service in SME and private lease segments.

The company’s ability to achieve this significant growth strategy is linked to their ability to deliver better digital services than competitors, and at lower costs. This is why their strategy is to transform to a fully digital business model.

LeasePlan has been at the forefront of the industry debate to achieve net-zero tailpipe emissions from its funded fleet by 2030. The Interim Climate Risk Manager will drive all the projects in climate-related and environmental risk areas.

Vacancy: Interim Climate Risk Manager

Assignment: The Interim Climate Risk Manager takes oversight of all the projects related to climate-related and environmental risk to comply with external regulations. For example, from the ECB, and implementing the recommendations form the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), with a focus on embedding climate-related and environmental risk in the existing risk management practices in the first line.

Team: Project management of external consultants who perform risk assessments, plus team collaboration in the rest of the organization (sustainability and credit risk) to implement climate risk identification, assessment and management into day-to-day activities.

 KPIs: Deliver, om time and in full, the key deliverables related to the ECB Guide on climate-related and environmental risk, including to:

• Embed climate risks into existing risk management practices and models
• Quantify the impact of climate-related risks on LeasePlan’s risk exposures
• Internalize insights from data, through stakeholder management of different departments.

Greatest challenge: The Interim Climate Risk Manager‘s assignment has a quantitative/modelling component and a stakeholder management component. They will identify and assess gathered data regarding climate risk, and collaborate with different parts of the organization to embed relevant risk insights and measurements into existing risk identification, assessment and management.

Interested?

LeasePlan has appointed Top of Minds to fill this vacancy.
To express your interest, please contact Ian Dove at ian.dove@topofminds.com.