Investment specialist assessing circular fibre projects and mobilizing capital for Canopy’s Next Gen materials sector. Building investor partnerships, project pipelines, and evidence-based financing strategies.
Responsibilities
Develop and coordinate Canopy’s strategy for deploying investment to scale Next Gen materials, including identifying capital needs by region
Expand Canopy’s Next Gen investor network and advance key investor partnerships
Build and maintain a qualified pipeline of Next Gen producers and projects across priority regions
Track opportunity progress, dependencies, decisions, and next steps
Assess feedstock security, technology and operational readiness, management capability, market demand, permitting, capital needs, and key risks
Test claims against primary sources and produce concise, evidence-based assessments
Identify project needs such as customer validation, conditional demand, feedstock agreements, technical support, financing, or policy changes
Review financial and techno-economic assumptions and clarify capital requirements and financing gaps
Help prepare projects for engagement with funders
Prepare briefings, evidence packs, and meeting materials for producers, brands, investors, and partners
Participate in selected external discussions and document decisions, commitments, and follow-up
Support regional strategies through market sizing, feedstock assessment, mill and converter mapping, and analysis of policy, trade, and infrastructure
Collaborate with the Senior Director of Next Gen Transformation and colleagues across producer engagement, brand partnerships, investment, regional strategies, and research
Requirements
Approximately 3 to 5 years of relevant experience in investment or market analysis, project finance, corporate development, management consulting, supply-chain analysis, or a related field
Experience in the industrial, infrastructure, or commodities sectors is helpful
Strong analytical judgement and ability to test claims, locate reliable evidence, identify missing information, and distinguish genuine progress from announcements
Comfort working with financial and techno-economic models, including questioning assumptions and explaining implications clearly
Systems perspective across supply, demand, finance, policy, infrastructure, and relationships
Clear written and verbal communication skills
Strong organization and follow-through across multiple projects, regions, and contributors
Professional judgement and discretion with commercially sensitive or unannounced information
Confidence with spreadsheets, research databases, and other analytical tools, with ability to learn new systems quickly
Knowledge of pulp, fibre, packaging, textiles, circular materials, or relevant regional markets is an asset
CV, cover letter, and separate 300–400-word response to the application prompt required; applications missing the cover letter or prompt response will not be considered
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