Senior Associate, Business Engagement, Asia Pacific in SINGAPORE

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a global community of over 225 of the world’s leading businesses driving systems transformation for a better world in which 9+ billion people can live well, within planetary boundaries, by mid-century. Together, we transform the systems we work in to limit the impact of the climate crisis, restore nature, and tackle inequality.​

We accelerate value chain transformation across key sectors and reshape the financial system to reward sustainable leadership and action through a lower cost of capital. Through the exchange of best practices, improving performance, accessing education, forming partnerships, and shaping the policy agenda, we drive progress in businesses and sharpen the accountability of their performance.

WBCSD Asia Pacific represents the interests of WBCSD across Asia and the Oceania. WBCSD works with almost 25% of our members headquartered in the region, together with forging relationships with key partner organizations and other key stakeholders to accelerate system transformations needed for a net zero, nature positive, and equitable future. It also works to ensure the outreach, engagement, and actions of WBCSD reflect the regional circumstances of the Asia Pacific market.

Job Overview

The Senior Associate will support the Executive Director in raising the profile of WBCSD and the impact of our work in Asia Pacific through strengthened member and prospect engagement, strategic communications, and targeted events.

In this role, the Senior Associate will gain exposure to a large community of high level profiles within some of APAC largest companies, across multiple sectors.

The Senior Associate will play a critical role in planning, coordination and execution role for all member facing engagement, mapping member needs with WBCSD programs, to deliver our content and amplify our impact regionally. Working in collaboration with WBCSD Program teams, the Senior Associate will gain a good understanding of the most pressing sustainability challenges within APAC business community. The role will be reporting to the Executive Director, Asia Pacific.

Main Responsibilities

We are looking for a highly motivated individual, able to build communities, organize events, coordinate engagement plans, to help accelerate business and systems transformation in the region.

• Creation, management and internal/external communication of a member engagement program around the Membership criteria and projects, engaging 50+ member companies across Asia & Pacific
• Coordination and delivery of an ongoing series of in person dialogues with businesses across Asia and the Pacific, amplifying WBCSD content on the most pressing issues for the region and WBCSD
• Development and execution of the WBCSD APAC event 2025, as a tier 2 event for WBCSD
• Co-ordination and optimization of LT and ELG presence across Asia and the Pacific to support the strategy, maximizing efficiency and impact
• Manage ongoing communications with regional network partners and other stakeholders
• Contribute to the communication activities of WBCSD in Asia and the Pacific and also contributing to the Fundraising strategy in collaboration with WBCSD Partnerships & Fundraising lead in Geneva
• Recruit and manage interns as needed by the organization
• Assist in running the office operations, team coordination and activities.
• Contribute to develop a global approach to WBCSD Engagement Marketing efforts, in close collaboration with EMEA and North America regions

Qualifications, skills and experience

The candidate should have at least 3 years of experience and not more than 10 years of experience working in a business development or sales & marketing related role

• A Bachelor’s degree or a higher education with a focus on business, management, environmental or sustainability related education tracks preferred
• 3- 7 years of professional experience in sales, including inside sales, and marketing and excellent key account sales skills, with proven successful track record in consultative selling situations
• Hands-on digital sales and marketing expertise using CRM tools, preferably Salesforce
• Experience and comfort interacting at high levels in corporations, in different cultural contexts and complex project-type sales processes. Proven ability to build trusted relationships with corporate decision-makers
• Good team spirit and the ability to build, nurture and work effectively in teams of partners/stakeholders, able to interact with senior representatives of WBCSD and member companies.
• An action oriented mindset to mobilize stakeholders and thereby overcoming barriers to deliver results
• Advanced knowledge of major MS-Office tools (excel, ppt, word)
• Excellent communication skills in English (spoken & written), strong presentation skills with the ability to adjust style of communication to suit audience.

The position is permanent and is based in Singapore and may require international travel. Candidates should be of Singaporean citizenship or authorized to work in Singapore.

WBCSD is a purpose driven, forward-thinking and action-oriented organization, characterized by diversity of gender, nationalities and work experiences.

The Work Environment

WBCSD offers a competitive, modern, and flexible working arrangement:

• Geneva-based organization with offices in Amsterdam, London, Singapore, Wuhan, Chicago and New York
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• State-of-the-art facilities and IT-enabled working tools
• Flex-time and part-time possibilities
• Dynamic working atmosphere
• Open culture encouraging interaction and sharing of ideas and opinions
• International relocation support