We are looking for a UK based, full time Senior Sales Lead to support Climate Bonds mission by extending the reach of its services to increase commercial revenue.
- Basic Salary: £35,000
- OTE of £75,000
- Guarantee salary for the first 3 months £75k
- Start Date: August 2026
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Proactively identify and originate new sales prospects aligned with Climate Bonds’ priorities and commercial service offerings
- Build and manage a strong pipeline of prospective leads across target segments, including banks, asset managers and asset owners
- Engagements should be anchored on advancing prospects and conversations to mature stage of negotiations that can be realistically converted into sales.
- To ensure success, you will maintain up-to-date knowledge of sustainable finance trends, regulatory developments, and evolving market practices.
- Technical understanding should be at the level to be able to engage senior stakeholders and decision-makers to position offerings effectively
- Ability to project manage and effectively lead end-to-end sales process, from initial outreach and relationship development to negotiation and deal closure
- Diligently track pipeline performance, maintain accurate reporting on Dynamics
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Excellent verbal and written communication abilities in English.
- The ability to deliver professional and persuasive presentations and build long term client relationships. Strong client servicing, consultative sales, and overall strong commercial skills.
- At least 5+ years of work experience
- Proven track record of exceeding sales targets
- The ability to work collaboratively across product and sales teams
This role is fully remote
- We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.
✈️ Opportunities to work from another location
✅ Make a meaningful impact every day!
Climate Bonds is the leading international non-government organisation mobilising global capital for climate action.
We drive the growth of the green and sustainable debt market through science-aligned frameworks including our taxonomies and standards, our Certification, our data and insights, and our provision of expert policy and technical advice.
Since 2010 Climate Bonds has played a central role in elevating the green bond market from a niche concept to a mainstream source of capital for sustainable development. The green and sustainable bonds* market is now worth more than $6 trillion and growing fast. Climate Bonds helps ensure the quality of these bonds, and provides investors, issuers and others with the information they need to participate in the market. At Climate Bonds Initiative we:
- Inspire investors to support the transition to a green and resilient future;
- Demonstrate the demand for and describe the impacts and return of green investments;
- Influence and support governments to incentivise green and resilient investments;
- Drive the growth of a quality market by defining, updating and monitoring green standards.
