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United Kingdom · Sustainability · Principal/Manager (12-16 years)

Climate Risk Manager

As a Climate Risk Manager, you transform strategic visions into tangible climate resilience actions across the business.

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  • Experience bandPrincipal/Manager (12-16 years)
  • Direct reports3-8 reports
  • Reports toDirector, Climate & ESG Risk
  • UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Head of Climate Risk · Sustainability Risk Lead · ESG Risk Manager · Climate Resilience Programme Manager

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The qualifications matched to this job

Pearson BTEC Level 5 Higher National Diploma in Sport Pearson Education Ltd · Level 5 · covers 1 of 1 standard
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2AI and this work

Will AI change your work as a Climate Risk Manager?

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Fading: AI does more of this

AI is starting to handle the routine data analysis and initial report drafting, freeing you from these repetitive tasks.

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Rising: worth more because of AI

Your ability to interpret complex data and make strategic decisions becomes increasingly valuable as AI handles the groundwork.

The new skill this role is being asked for

  • Adaptive Leadership in Ambiguity
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The future skills this job leans on

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3What this role really is

We see you

You often wonder if AI will ever truly grasp the nuanced decisions you make daily. Yet, you feel a quiet confidence in your ability to lead through the uncertainty AI brings.

A Climate Risk Manager runs the day-to-day work of managing climate risk, overseeing budgets and turning strategy into action across a business.

4A day in the life

Not a job advert. A real day, built from what this role actually holds.

08:45
You begin your day reviewing the latest climate risk reports, ensuring they are ready for the upcoming Board Risk Committee meeting.
11:00
You meet with your team to discuss resource allocation for a new climate risk project, balancing budget constraints and strategic priorities.
14:30
You engage in a one-on-one session with a team member, providing feedback and discussing their professional development goals.
16:00
You join a call with the Head of Operations to advocate for integrating climate risk considerations into their departmental strategy.

5What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Climate Risk Platforms (e.g., Jupiter Intelligence, Cervest, Moody's Climate Solutions) Strategic

Leading vendor selection, evaluating new platform capabilities, negotiating contracts, and directing the integration of platform outputs into enterprise-wide financial planning and ERM systems. You'll be the ultimate decision-maker on which platforms we use and how.

GIS Software (e.g., ArcGIS Pro, QGIS) Architect

Defining the enterprise geospatial data strategy for climate risk, ensuring data standards, and overseeing the integration of GIS outputs with other business intelligence systems. You won't be building every map, but you'll define how we do it.

ESG & GRC Platforms (e.g., Workiva, Persefoni, ServiceNow GRC) Strategic

Owning the relationship with platform vendors, ensuring the platform architecture supports future regulatory needs (e.g., CSRD, TNFD), and using it for board-level reporting (e.g., via Diligent Boards integration). You'll ensure the platform serves our strategic needs.

Data Analysis & Viz (e.g., Python [pandas, GeoPandas], Power BI, Tableau) Strategic

Setting the standards for climate risk data visualisation and analytics across the organisation. You'll champion data literacy and ensure insights are embedded in capital allocation decisions. You'll review and critique complex dashboards and models built by your team.

Advanced Excel (e.g., Power Query, Scenario Manager, VBA) Strategic

Reviewing and critiquing complex financial models built by the team, ensuring assumptions are sound, methodologies are robust, and outputs are defensible to the CFO and external auditors. You'll be the final technical gatekeeper for financial modelling.

6What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing in Where you are nowThe step above
Climate Risk Strategy & Programme Direction Supports by providing data and analysis for strategic discussions. Proposes specific approaches for a project within the overall strategy, escalates if outside guidelines. Designs and recommends strategic initiatives for specific workstreams, consults with Director on broader programme impact.
Budget Allocation & Spending No budget authority. Requests resources from supervisor. Manages small project budgets (up to £5K) with manager approval. Escalates larger spending. Manages workstream budgets (up to £50K), makes recommendations for larger investments to Director.
Team Management & Development Focuses on personal development and learning. Provides informal guidance to new joiners, identifies personal training needs. Mentors 1-2 junior analysts, provides peer feedback, identifies team training gaps.
External Vendor & Platform Selection Uses existing tools as instructed. Evaluates features of existing tools, suggests minor improvements. Researches potential new tools for specific analytical needs, provides recommendations to manager.

7How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, and what is not on it. The hard targets, how often each is actually looked at, and the quiet signals that never reach a dashboard.

Climate Risk Integration into ERM
Percentage of identified climate risks formally integrated into the company's top 10 enterprise risks.
Target · 75% of high-priority climate risks integrated within 18 months

By Q4, 2025, three out of four identified high-priority physical risks (e.g., flood exposure for key sites) were formally added to the enterprise risk register, with clear ownership and mitigation plans.

Regulatory Compliance & Audit Performance
Number of significant findings or observations from internal and external audits related to climate risk reporting and disclosures.
Target · Zero significant findings in annual TCFD/CSRD audits

Our 2025 TCFD disclosure received a clean bill of health from external auditors, with only minor recommendations for process improvements, not data integrity.

Climate-Related Financial Impact (Identified/Mitigated)
Quantified financial value of climate-related opportunities identified (e.g., new 'green' products) or risks mitigated (e.g., reduced insurance premiums due to resilience investments).
Target · Identification of >£10M in climate-related financial impact annually

Through our scenario analysis, we identified a £15M opportunity in adapting our product line for drought-resistant materials, and a £2M saving on insurance premiums due to enhanced flood defences at two key facilities.

Team Performance & Development
Average performance rating of direct reports and number of team members progressing to the next career level.
Target · Average performance rating of 4.0/5.0; at least 1 team member promoted per year

In 2025, your team's average performance review score was 4.2, and one Senior Climate Risk Specialist was promoted to Lead Climate Risk Strategist, largely thanks to your mentorship.

Stakeholder Engagement & Influence
How effectively you build relationships, get buy-in, and influence key business leaders to act on climate risk.
  • You'll be proactively invited to strategic planning meetings across departments (e.g., Operations, Finance). Business unit leaders will seek your input on investment decisions and new projects. You'll see evidence of climate risk considerations being embedded into departmental strategies without you having to chase them constantly. Informal feedback from peers and senior leaders will consistently highlight your ability to 'get things done' on climate.
Programme Maturity & Effectiveness
The overall robustness, efficiency, and foresight of our climate risk programme.
  • Our climate risk framework will be well-documented, regularly reviewed, and clearly understood across relevant teams. We'll have a clear pipeline of identified risks, mitigation actions, and progress tracking. You'll be able to demonstrate that the programme is adapting to new regulations and emerging climate science, rather than just reacting. Our internal audit team will comment on the programme's structured approach and defensibility.
Team Leadership & Empowerment
How well you lead, inspire, and develop your direct reports, fostering a high-performing and engaged team.
  • Your team members will consistently report high levels of job satisfaction and feel supported in their development. They'll take initiative, feel empowered to make decisions within their scope, and view you as a trusted mentor. You'll see a noticeable improvement in the quality and autonomy of their work. Informal feedback will highlight your coaching style and ability to delegate effectively.
External Reputation & Thought Leadership
Our standing in the industry regarding climate risk management, influenced by your contributions.
  • You might be asked to speak at industry conferences or participate in working groups. Our company will be cited as a case study for good practice in climate risk management. Our external communications (e.g., annual reports, investor briefings) will clearly articulate our climate risk strategy and progress, earning positive commentary from analysts and NGOs.

8Would you like it

Both sides. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Making a Tangible Impact on Organisational Resilience

You'll be driving projects that directly protect our company's assets, supply chains, and future profitability from climate threats. This means seeing your strategies translate into real-world changes, like new flood defences or diversified sourcing strategies.

Leading the project to assess and mitigate flood risk for our European distribution network, resulting in a £5M investment that visibly protects key infrastructure and reduces insurance premiums.

Leading and Developing a Specialist Team

You'll be coaching, mentoring, and empowering your team of climate risk specialists and strategists. Seeing them grow, take on more complex challenges, and deliver high-quality work under your guidance will be a major source of satisfaction.

Mentoring a Senior Climate Risk Specialist to successfully lead their first major TCFD disclosure project, seeing them present confidently to senior leadership, and then recommending them for promotion.

Navigating Complex Strategic Challenges

This role is all about solving really tough, multi-faceted problems that involve science, finance, regulation, and human behaviour. You'll thrive on the intellectual challenge of connecting disparate pieces of information to build a coherent risk strategy.

Developing a comprehensive strategy to address Scope 3 emissions risk across our entire value chain, involving complex data collection, supplier engagement, and internal policy changes.

What frustrates people
  • The Data is a Disaster: Spending 60% of your time chasing, cleaning, and making heroic assumptions about incomplete supplier data, especially for Scope 3 emissions. It's a constant battle.
  • The Prophet of Doom Fatigue: Constantly being the person in senior meetings who raises complex, expensive, long-term problems when everyone else is focused on hitting quarterly targets. It can be exhausting.
  • Fighting for Budget Against Short-Termism: Trying to justify a multi-million pound investment to mitigate a 2040 risk to a CFO whose bonus is tied to this year's EBITDA. It's a political minefield.
  • Regulatory Whiplash: Just as you've aligned your reporting to TCFD, you now have to re-map everything to CSRD, the new SEC rule, and IFRS S2, all with slightly different requirements. It feels like moving targets.
  • "Black Box" Model Anxiety: Relying on third-party climate risk models whose inner workings are proprietary, making it difficult to fully defend their outputs under intense scrutiny from auditors or executives. It's a leap of faith sometimes.
What this role does not give you
  • A quiet, predictable environment where you can just focus on technical analysis without interruption.
  • Immediate, tangible results for every single project you initiate (some initiatives will take years to show full impact).
  • A role where you're always the most popular person in the room, especially when asking for more data or budget.
  • Complete control over all variables; you'll be influencing, not dictating, much of the time.

9Who you work with

This role directly shapes our company's ability to identify, quantify, and mitigate climate-related financial risks. You'll be responsible for ensuring we meet evolving regulatory requirements (like CSRD and TCFD), protect our assets, and maintain investor confidence. Your work will directly influence capital allocation decisions, insurance strategies, and even M&A due diligence, meaning you'll have a tangible impact on our P&L and long-term viability.

Inside the business
  • CFO and Finance Leadership Team
  • Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) team
  • Operations and Supply Chain Directors
  • Legal and Compliance teams
  • Investor Relations
  • Board Risk Committee
Outside the business
  • External auditors (e.g., PwC, EY)
  • Climate risk platform vendors (e.g., Jupiter Intelligence)
  • Industry bodies and associations
  • Rating agencies (e.g., S&P, Moody's)
  • Regulators (e.g., FCA, PRA)

10What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • At least 5 years of direct experience leading climate risk assessment projects or programmes within a large corporate or financial institution (or equivalent experience).
  • Proven track record of managing and developing a small team of analysts or specialists.
  • Demonstrable experience in designing and implementing TCFD-aligned disclosures.
  • Solid understanding of financial modelling and risk quantification techniques, specifically applied to climate scenarios.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with a history of influencing senior leaders without direct authority.
  • A deep, practical understanding of one or more climate risk platforms (e.g., Jupiter, Cervest, Moody's) – not just using them, but understanding their underlying methodologies.

11What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced Geospatial AI & Predictive Analytics

The integration of AI with geospatial data is revolutionising how we predict and assess physical climate risks. Competitors are already using advanced models to pinpoint asset vulnerability with unprecedented accuracy. You'll need to understand how these work to effectively direct your team and challenge vendor claims.

Machine Learning for Climate Hazard Prediction · Remote Sensing & Satellite Imagery Analysis · Generative AI for Scenario Exploration

  • This quarter: Research leading geospatial AI platforms and attend webinars from vendors like Google Earth Engine or Descartes Labs.
  • Next 6 months: Work with your team to conduct a pilot project using an advanced geospatial AI tool for a specific asset risk assessment.
  • Next 12 months: Develop a strategy for integrating remote sensing data into our regular climate risk monitoring processes.
  • Ongoing: Regularly review academic papers and industry reports on the latest advancements in climate AI and geospatial analytics.

Quick win: Challenge your current climate risk platform vendors on their AI capabilities and ask for demonstrations of their latest geospatial AI features. Get your team to experiment with open-source geospatial AI libraries.

Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) & Biodiversity Risk

Beyond climate, nature-related risks (e.g., biodiversity loss, water scarcity, land degradation) are rapidly gaining regulatory and investor attention. The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is the next big thing after TCFD. You'll need to lead our preparedness for this, integrating it into our broader sustainability risk framework.

LEAP Approach (Locate, Evaluate, Assess, Prepare) · Nature-Positive Strategies · Ecosystem Services Valuation

  • This quarter: Read the latest TNFD framework and guidance documents.
  • Next 6 months: Conduct a preliminary 'Locate' (LEAP) assessment for a key operational site or supply chain segment.
  • Next 12 months: Develop a roadmap for integrating nature-related risks into our existing climate risk programme and ERM framework.
  • Ongoing: Engage with industry working groups or consultants focused on TNFD implementation.

Quick win: Start a conversation with your Director about TNFD and its potential implications for our business. Identify a junior team member to start researching biodiversity impact assessment tools.

12Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly attending industry conferences and webinars on climate risk, ESG, and sustainable finance (e.g., Climate Week, GreenFin, Responsible Business Summit).
  • Participating in relevant professional networks or working groups (e.g., those focused on TCFD implementation, TNFD development).
  • Subscribing to leading climate science and financial risk publications to stay abreast of emerging research and regulatory changes.
  • Undertaking advanced training in data science, geospatial analysis, or financial modelling, particularly as it applies to climate scenarios.

13The rising capability

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Adaptive Leadership in Ambiguity

The pace of change in climate regulation (e.g., CSRD, TNFD, IFRS S2) and climate science means there's rarely a clear, pre-defined path. You'll often be building the plane as you fly it, leading your team through uncertainty and helping them make sense of complex, evolving requirements. This isn't about having all the answers, but about guiding the process.

  • Scenario Planning for Organisational Resilience
  • Agile Programme Management
  • Psychological Safety in Teams

14What you’ll use

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • TCFD Framework Implementation
  • Climate Scenario Analysis
  • Physical & Transition Risk Quantification
  • GHG Accounting & Abatement Costing
  • Double Materiality Assessment
  • Climate Risk Integration into ERM

15The pathway

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    From Senior Climate Risk Specialist

    3-5 years as a Senior Specialist

    Skills to master

    • Leading complex projects end-to-end, building new analytical models, mentoring junior team members, and presenting findings to senior stakeholders. You'd also need to start taking on more strategic thinking.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully led at least two major climate risk assessment projects (e.g., a full TCFD disclosure).
    • Consistently received positive feedback on mentorship and coaching abilities.
    • Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
    • Proactively identified and proposed solutions for significant climate risk challenges.
  2. 2

    From Lead Climate Risk Strategist

    2-4 years as a Lead Strategist

    Skills to master

    • Designing the company's climate scenario analysis framework, being the go-to technical expert, and influencing senior stakeholders on technical direction. The jump to Manager adds people management and budget ownership.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Designed and implemented a key climate risk methodology or framework that is now embedded in the business.
    • Recognised as the internal subject matter expert for a specific area of climate risk (e.g., physical risk modelling).
    • Successfully influenced senior leaders on technical decisions and strategic direction.
    • Expressed a clear interest and aptitude for people management and programme oversight.
  3. 3

    From Risk Manager (with Climate Specialisation) in Financial Services

    5-8 years in a similar risk management role, with 2-3 years focused on climate.

    Skills to master

    • Translating financial risk management principles to corporate sustainability, understanding GHG accounting, and navigating corporate (non-financial) stakeholder dynamics. You'd need to adapt your industry context.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Managed a significant risk portfolio, including climate-related risks, within a regulated financial institution.
    • Strong understanding of financial impact quantification and regulatory reporting (e.g., stress testing).
    • Demonstrated ability to adapt to a new industry context and quickly learn new domain-specifics (e.g., Scope 3 complexities).
    • Proven leadership and programme management skills in a complex environment.

16How people get here · where they go next

Came from
Senior Climate Risk Specialist
3-5 years
You mastered leading complex climate risk projects and mentoring your team, preparing you for broader strategic responsibilities.
You are here
Climate Risk Manager
Principal/Manager (12-16 years)
A Climate Risk Manager runs the day-to-day work of managing climate risk, overseeing budgets and turning strategy into action across a business.
Goes to
Director, Climate & ESG Risk
3-5 years
This role involves shaping the company's entire ESG strategy and engaging with high-level stakeholders on climate and sustainability issues.

The long view: This role can lead to climate risk consulting, a climate risk role in a bank or insurer, a climate tech startup, or policy work for a government or NGO.

The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Climate Risk Manager is actually changing.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Risk & Safety Management in the Outdoors, worked against Climate Risk Manager.

Risk & Safety Management in the Outdoors Level 5

Applied to your work in Climate Risk Manager

The objective of this unit is to enable learners to investigate safety management theories, policies, and legislation relevant to outdoor activities, and to develop risk assessments, safety statements, and standard operating procedures. Learners will also demonstrate the effective application of safety procedures in dynamic outdoor environments and understand the concept of a reasonable standard of care.

The Navigator Last time, we talked about integrating climate risk into the Enterprise Risk Management framework. How did your discussions with the CRO's team go?

You They were receptive, but we hit some snags with aligning our priorities.

The Navigator Let's focus on identifying common goals that can bridge those gaps, starting with a joint workshop on shared risk objectives.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time.

A year from now

A year from now, you confidently guide your team through the evolving landscape of climate risk, leveraging AI to enhance strategic decision-making.

See Your Progress Grow Illustration
Climate Risk Manager
  • TCFD Framework Implementation
  • Climate Scenario Analysis
  • Physical & Transition Risk Quantification
  • GHG Accounting & Abatement Costing
  • Double Materiality Assessment
  • Climate Risk Integration into ERM
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

17The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Climate Risk Manager is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Director, Climate & ESG Risk

    3-5 years in the Climate Risk Manager role

    Level 6 (Director/VP)

    • Deep expertise in integrating climate risk into the full Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework across all risk types.
    • Leading the development of the company's overall ESG strategy, beyond just climate.
    • Engaging with investors and rating agencies on ESG performance and strategy.
    • Overseeing M&A due diligence from an ESG and climate risk perspective.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be honest, managing climate risk is incredibly complex and often bogged down by manual data work and endless report writing. But what if you could offload the tedious bits to AI, freeing up your team to focus on strategic insights and real impact? That's exactly what we're doing here at Zavmo.

We're not just talking about hypothetical AI; we're actively integrating AI tools to make our Climate Risk Managers and their teams dramatically more productive. Imagine cutting down the time spent on data collection, regulatory synthesis, and initial report drafting. This isn't about replacing your expertise; it's about amplifying it, letting you lead with more speed and deeper insights.

Automated Scope 3 Data Harvester

Oversee AI-powered document extraction tools that pull emissions data, spend figures, and activity data from thousands of supplier PDFs, reports, and invoices. This radically accelerates GHG inventory creation, allowing your team to focus on data quality and verification, not manual entry. You'll direct where the AI focuses and validate its output.

IPCC & Regulation Synthesizer

Direct the use of NLP models to scan and summarise dense, 1000-page IPCC reports or new regulatory filings (e.g., CSRD, IFRS S2). The AI highlights the specific physical and transition risks most relevant to our industry and asset locations, giving your team a huge head start on analysis and helping you stay ahead of the curve.

Rapid Site Risk Assessor

Empower your team to use AI assistants that instantly collate location-specific climate data for potential new factories or acquisitions. This pulls historical weather events, projected sea-level rise, and local policy information in minutes instead of days, enabling quicker, more informed due diligence and strategic planning under your guidance.

Disclosure Narrative Drafter

Leverage generative AI models, trained on best-practice TCFD reports, to create the first draft of the narrative for your annual climate disclosure. This includes outlining methodology, findings, and strategic responses, giving your team a solid foundation for human refinement and ensuring consistency and quality across reports. You'll review and refine, not start from scratch.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Climate Risk Manager?

Common routes in include From Senior Climate Risk Specialist (3-5 years as a Senior Specialist), From Lead Climate Risk Strategist (2-4 years as a Lead Strategist) and From Risk Manager (with Climate Specialisation) in Financial Services (5-8 years in a similar risk management role, with 2-3 years focused on climate.). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Climate Risk Manager progress to?

This role can lead on to Director, Climate & ESG Risk (3-5 years in the Climate Risk Manager role), depending on the skills you build.

What new skills matter most for a Climate Risk Manager?

Increasingly, Adaptive Leadership in Ambiguity. These are the skills our record of this role lists as growing.

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18Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

 More jobs in sustainability

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.
If you leave this industry

The skills involved transfer well. They can lead to climate risk consulting, a climate risk role at a bank or insurer, a climate tech startup, or policy work for a government or NGO.

This role profile is © 2026 Growth Engineering Technologies Ltd. Built from UK occupational standards and regulated qualification data, and written for Zavmo.

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