Commercial Operations Manager (100%) — Climeworks
- Location
- Opfikon
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 11 days ago
Role overview
As a Commercial & Business Operations Specialist , you will help build scalable operations across Climeworks Solutions, including our commercial, project sourcing and customer success teams.
You will translate business needs into robust processes, tools, analytics, and ways of working, enabling us to move faster, collaborate better, and make decisions based on reliable data.
Together with your team, you will help design and scale digital products including a platform enabling customers to manage and monitor their carbon removal portfolios, bringing greater transparency, accessibility, and impact visibility to the market.
- As a Commercial & Business Operations Specialist , you will help build scalable operations across Climeworks Solutions, including our commercial, project sourcing and customer success teams.
- You will translate business needs into robust processes, tools, analytics, and ways of working, enabling us to move faster, collaborate better, and make decisions based on reliable data.
- Language: You have excellent written and spoken English skills. What we offer:
- Time Off: Enjoy 25 paid vacation days every year, plus public holidays.
Key requirements
- Language: You have excellent written and spoken English skills. What we offer:
- Time Off: Enjoy 25 paid vacation days every year, plus public holidays.
- Ownership: Fair base pay paired with an equity package – because your contributions matter.
- Family Support: Inclusive parental leave.
- Continuous Learning: Dedicated budget to invest in your professional growth.
- Referral Rewards: Help us grow our team and earn bonuses for your successful referrals. Formalities:
Application process
- Knowledge management: You develop and maintain an internal knowledge base of processes, tools and enablement materials, making it easy for teams to access and apply best practices. Requirements:
- We encourage all qualified applicants to apply – regardless of background, identity, or experience.
- Studies show that women and individuals from minority backgrounds often only apply for jobs when they meet 100% of the listed criteria.
Company and context
- This is a problem-solver and builder role for someone who is excited to turn ambiguity into structure and to shape how a high-growth commercial organization operates, today and tomorrow.
- Process & operational excellence: You define and continuously improve processes across marketing, business development, sales, project sourcing, and customer success, towards more standardised, digital, and scalable ways of working.
- You drive adoption through documentation, training, and continuous feedback loops and act as a trusted sparring partner for operational topics.
- Business analysis & solution design: You lead stakeholder meetings and workshops to understand business needs, map processes, define requirements, and translate them into practical solutions.
- You prioritise requests, manage trade-offs, and ensure improvements align with business priorities, system architecture, and available capacity.
- Salesforce administration, marketing & sales tools: You act as Salesforce Administrator for Climeworks Solutions, working closely with the Senior Salesforce Engineer and Tech team.
- You configure, maintain, and optimise Salesforce and related commercial tools, enabling efficient and effective system usage.
- Analytics, reporting & data quality: You create reports and dashboards in Salesforce, Power BI, and Microsoft tools to monitor business performance and support decision-making.
- You conduct ad-hoc business analyses and own data quality controls and improvement measures.
- Project & change management: You drive operational improvement initiatives, coordinate stakeholders, and communicate outcomes through clear project updates and presentations.
Additional details
- Knowledge management: You develop and maintain an internal knowledge base of processes, tools and enablement materials, making it easy for teams to access and apply best practices.
- Let’s tackle one of humankind’s greatest challenges together.
- Individual compensation depends on your skills, experience, and the value you bring to the team.
Notes and original content
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- What we offer:
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Questions about this listing
What salary does Climeworks offer for this role?
Climeworks lists CHF 117'000 - 180'000 gross per year for this position in Opfikon. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Climeworks offer?
This listing is a full-time position. The contract type shown here comes directly from the employer's original posting; always confirm exact hours, notice period and probation length with Climeworks during the application process, since these details can vary by role even within the same contract category.
Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Zürich?
EU/EFTA residents living in the border zone of the country adjoining Canton Zürich can apply for a G permit; the Swiss employer files it with that canton's migration office after the contract is signed. Border-zone rules and processing times vary by neighbouring country and canton, so confirm the specifics with Zürich's cantonal migration office or with HR during the application.
How do I apply for this position at Climeworks?
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