Senior Industrial & Innovation Policy Analyst

European Macro Policy Network

THE CHALLENGE EMPN produces policy analysis and proposals to influence decisions in Brussels, Frankfurt, and national capitals — but rigorous work only matters if it reaches the right people at the right time. We are building a deliberately small, senior, and AI-leveraged team, and we are looking for the person who will own the entire bridge between our research and its audience. As Digital & Communications Manager, you will run EMPN’s outreach machine end-to-end: our website, our CRM and campaigns, our publications’ distribution, and the AI-assisted workflows that hold it all together. You will not decide what EMPN says — our senior analysts own that judgement. You own how it lands, and with whom. This is a role for someone who treats communications as a system to be built and compounded, not a series of one-off tasks, and who uses AI as a native part of how they work, not an occasional shortcut. YOUR ROLE You will report to the Managing Director and work closely with our senior analysts and with Lucas, who leads our technical and AI infrastructure. You will be a solo owner of the function, with the budget to commission specialist service providers (design, video, translation, development) and the possibility of an intern as the team grows. Key responsibilities include: * Website. Own EMPN's website pipeline: publishing papers, people, and events, building launch pages, and keeping the site fast, clean, and current. * Digital marketing. Own our CRM (HubSpot): build and segment our audience, design and run campaigns to push our publications and events, grow our newsletter and reach deliberately, and track what works. * Communications. Turn our analysts' work into reach across every channel: newsletters, LinkedIn, X, the website, and press releases. Coordinate the relaunch and translation of relevant publications from our national partners for a European audience. * Press. Manage the mechanics of our media presence: maintain our journalist contacts, distribute press releases when we react to a policy event or publish a new paper, and support analysts and colleagues in placing their work. * AI & tools. Work with our AI-automation expert to connect EMPN's AI infrastructure to the outreach stack — CRM, website, and production workflows — and use it to do the work of a full communications team on your own. YOUR PROFILE This is what you need to bring: * You have 3+ years of experience. * You are AI-native in how you work. You do not use AI occasionally — it is built into your method. You draft, automate, and scale with it instinctively, and you are quick to wire new tools into your workflow. This is the single most important thing we are looking for. * You know digital marketing and CRM. You have hands-on experience with a CRM (ideally HubSpot) and understand the difference between sending emails and running a growth funnel: segmentation, campaigns, launch sequences, and analytics. * You can manage a website. You are comfortable owning a website end-to-end (WordPress) — publishing, formatting, building simple pages, and keeping it healthy without needing a developer for everyday work. * You write clean, sharp copy. You produce clear, punchy text across formats — newsletters, LinkedIn, web, press releases — in excellent English.  * You orchestrate rather than do everything yourself. You know when to use a service provider, an AI tool, or an intern, and you manage them to a result. You take full ownership of the function and do not wait to be managed on every detail. * You bring strong organisational skills and a solutions-focused mindset. Flexible and constructive, with strong attention to detail, a process-oriented outlook, and a real interest in building something. * You speak fluent English; French and/or other European languages are a strong asset. What would make you stand out: We would be glad to find a solid operator who runs the function reliably. We would be delighted to find someone exceptional. If the following describes you, tell us — it will change the conversation, including on compensation: * You have built automation pipelines that connect tools (CRM, website, AI) so that one action triggers many, and a small team performs like a large one. * You have grown an audience, a newsletter, or a digital presence from a standing start, and can show what you did and what it produced. * You can configure and connect AI tools and workflows largely on your own, working with a technical lead rather than depending on one. * You have worked in or close to a think tank, an EU institution, a quality media outlet, or a fast-moving digital or startup environment, and understand how ideas travel in the Brussels ecosystem. WHY US? This is what we offer: * Contract: A permanent contract under Belgian law. 100%, or part-time negotiable. * Meaningful work: A chance to build and own the entire communications and digital function of a fast-growing European policy network from the ground up — and to define how a small, AI-leveraged team makes itself heard. * A growth opportunity: As EMPN's Brussels headquarters expands, this role will offer increasing scope and the potential to build a small team beneath you. You will have access to personal and professional development opportunities and the chance to shape your role. It is an environment where your ideas can flourish, allowing you to grow into the best version of yourself. * Resources to deliver: A real budget for specialist service providers — design, video, translation, development — and the tools you need, so you can orchestrate rather than do everything by hand. * Competitive salary: €55,000–€80,000 annual gross, depending on experience and skills, plus a benefits package. The upper end of the band reflects demonstrated, exceptional ability across the areas above. * Flexible work environment: Primarily based in Brussels with options for remote work. * Inspiring colleagues: Last but not least, you will join a fantastic team at our Brussels headquarters and our parent organisation, Dezernat Zukunft, in Berlin, and work alongside inspiring partners across Europe's capitals — Paris, The Hague, Rome, Helsinki, Stockholm, and Vienna. Expect meaningful work, exciting challenges, and plenty of fun along the way.

Carbon Gap

OUR MISSION “We need to massively scale up carbon dioxide removal,” said Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and lead author of the Planetary Boundaries framework, at the 2025 UN Climate Summit in New York. More specifically, carbon dioxide removal (CDR – the ‘net’ part of ‘net zero') must scale from near-zero today to billions of tonnes by 2050. The growth rate this implies is faster than any other climate technology is expected to achieve or has achieved in the past. This cannot be achieved without government policy, and the role Europe must play in creating that policy cannot be overstated. Carbon Gap, Europe’s leading CDR not-for-profit, exists to ensure Europe’s contribution is maximised. A team of ~20 CDR policy experts based primarily between Brussels and London, we work closely with leading decision-makers right across Europe to design and shape the policies that are required to support CDR’s scale-up – from R&D funding to government purchasing programmes, and from national targets to standards and certification. Our work has been covered by publications including the Financial Times, Bloomberg, and the Wall Street Journal. Carbon Gap alumni have progressed to exciting roles in government, the private sector, and academia. THE ROLE Location: Brussels Type: Full-time Reporting to: Chief Policy Officer We are looking for a Brussels-based CDR Demand and Market Development Lead who will help design and advance policy and market mechanisms that create durable demand for high-integrity carbon dioxide removal across Europe. Policy-driven demand is critical to CDR scale-up because long-term market growth will depend not only on innovation and supply, but on credible demand signals that improve investability, reduce risk, and unlock public and private capital.   The role sits at the intersection of public policy, market design, and private-sector procurement. It will contribute to Carbon Gap’s work on compliance-related and other policy-driven demand mechanisms for carbon removal, with a particular focus on how regulation, public demand, and market structures can create durable deployment signals. This includes work on: * EU-level demand mechanisms, including compliance market integration, public procurement, and EU purchasing programmes or platforms * Enabling public-private partnerships for near-term scaling of CDR * Market structures that improve project economics and enable scale The role is suited to someone who understands how policy frameworks interact with real-world investment decisions, and who can analyse how demand signals affect project development, financing conditions, and market growth. You will work closely with Carbon Gap’s EU policy team and with partners across government, industry, and the carbon removal ecosystem. RESPONSIBILITIES 1) Demand-side CDR policy * Lead Carbon Gap’s Brussels work on policy and market mechanisms that can generate durable demand for high-integrity CDR across Europe. * Shape demand-side approaches across EU and Member State contexts, including public procurement, public-private demand mechanisms, compliance-related pathways, and relevant industrial, innovation, and commercialisation frameworks. * Assess how policy design choices affect bankability, financing conditions, and deployment. * Produce clear, decision-useful outputs for policy development and external engagement, including briefings, recommendations, and meeting materials. 2) Market analysis and insight * Analyse value chains, project economics, offtake dynamics, and deployment pathways across CDR approaches. * Generate insights on how policy and market conditions affect demand, investment incentives, and the flow of public and private capital. * Develop datasets, visualisations, and other analytical outputs that strengthen Carbon Gap’s policy work and external positioning. 3) Stakeholder engagement and external influence * Build trusted relationships across EU institutions, Member State governments, project developers, buyers, financial institutions, and civil society. * Represent Carbon Gap in external meetings and discussions in Brussels and beyond. * Design and deliver workshops, consultations, and convenings that connect policy design with market realities. * Use stakeholder engagement to test, refine, and advance Carbon Gap’s positions on policy-driven CDR demand. YOUR PROFILE You have strong analytical judgement, are comfortable making decisions with imperfect information, and can operate effectively in a technically and politically dynamic environment. You are able to reason clearly about how policy choices affect markets, investment behaviour, and project deployment. You combine structured problem-solving with strong external judgement. You can build productive relationships with a wide range of actors, simplify complex issues, and turn analysis into practical action. You do not need to be a carbon removal specialist already. But you should bring a solid grounding in climate, energy, industrial, or adjacent policy, and enough familiarity with Brussels and EU policymaking to operate credibly in the role. We care most about how you think, how you prioritise, and whether you can turn strategy into real-world outcomes. Essential experience and skills * 4–6+ years of experience in roles involving complex analysis, stakeholder engagement, and strategic execution, for example in public policy, government affairs, consulting, climate strategy, finance, or market analysis. * Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, including comfort working with imperfect or incomplete data to generate policy-relevant insights. * Familiarity with market dynamics, including the ability to reason about bankability, financing conditions, investment incentives, and project economics. * Ability to operate independently, drive work forward with limited oversight, and engage credibly with senior policymakers, market actors, and other stakeholders. * Ability to structure and use data in a practical way, including basic analysis in Excel, data visualisation, and use of data to support decision-making. * Excellent writing and synthesis skills, with the ability to translate complex policy and market issues into clear, decision-useful outputs. * Professional fluency in English. Strong Plus * Experience in one or more areas such as climate policy, carbon markets, industrial decarbonisation, innovation funding, procurement, or infrastructure policy. * Familiarity with EU policy processes and institutions. * Experience with demand-side policy instruments, regulated climate policy frameworks, project economics, climate or project finance, procurement design, or offtake and other contracting mechanisms relevant to scaling carbon removal. * Experience with data analysis, modelling, or data visualisation tools beyond Excel, such as Python or Power BI. * Strong visual communication skills, including the ability to translate complex analysis into clear presentations, charts, and tables for policy discussions. WHAT WE OFFER * A mission-driven role with meaningful responsibility and visibility in a high-impact policy space. * Competitive compensation, benchmarked to the level and scope of the role. * Strong professional development support, including centralised training, a personal learning and development budget, and opportunities to publish, lead projects, work with leading experts, and engage directly with policymakers and stakeholders. * A values-driven team culture emphasising empowerment, accountability, and intellectual honesty. Carbon Gap is committed to building an inclusive team. We strongly encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in the climate and carbon removal ecosystem. You do not need to meet every listed requirement to apply - if this role aligns with your skills and motivation, we would like to hear from you. How to apply Please submit: * A CV * A short cover note explaining why this role, why Carbon Gap, and what you would prioritise in the first 6 months * 1-2 work samples, for example a policy memo, briefing, consultation response, slide deck, market analysis, or similar An overview of the hiring process * 15-minute screening call * 45-minute fit interview with two senior colleagues * 45-minute practical interview, involving a case study

AIMPOINT AKTIEBOLAG

Aimpoint AB is the company that invented and developed the red dot sight, for which we are today the world-leading provider. Aimpoint sights are used in the civilian hunting and shooting markets, as well as by police and military forces. The company has over 570 employees and a turnover of approximately 2,3 billion SEK. Sales in the United States are managed through our American subsidiary, Aimpoint Inc. Our headquarters are located in Malmö, with production facilities in Malmö and Gällivare. Aimpoint is part of the Sandberg Development group. For more information about the company, please visit www.aimpoint.com/se Director Supply Chain Are you ready to take the next step in your career and become an integral part of Aimpoint's global success journey? We are seeking an engaged and experienced Director Supply Chain who, with a sharp strategic mindset and strong leadership, wants to help shape the future of material flow. Here, you will have the opportunity to make a real impact while growing professionally and personally. Your Role – A Key Player in Our Company As Director Supply Chain, you will have overall responsibility to create an efficient, innovative, and high-performing supply chain that meets both today’s and tomorrow’s customers’ needs. By driving change and continuous improvement, you will ensure Aimpoint’s supply chain remains at the forefront. Your Main Responsibilities: · Design and implement strategies to optimize the entire supply chain – from supplier to customer. · Ensure high quality, delivery precision, and cost efficiency at every stage. · Lead a dynamic team and develop tomorrow's leaders in Supply Chain Management. · Build strong collaborations externally with suppliers and partners, as well as internally across departments. In this position, you will act as a bridge connecting production, logistics, and business strategy. You are the one who ensures that goals are achieved – and preferably exceeded. We Are Looking for Someone Who: · Has at least 8–10 years of experience in senior positions within Supply Chain, logistics, or related areas. · A leader with a track record of managing complex supply chains as well leading other leaders and specialist · Is a skilled analyst, analytical person, and communicative leader capable of delivering both strategy and tangible results. · Is highly knowledgeable in modern ERP systems and digital tools to streamline workflows. · Holds a relevant degree in logistics, Supply Chain Management, or industrial engineering and management. · Is motivated by coaching others towards success and solving complex challenges collaboratively. · Extensive experience in managing procurement agreements and negotiations. Personal Qualities That Drive Success in This Role: · You think strategically but can also operate hands-on when needed. · You are proactive, results-driven, and skilled at prioritizing under pressure. · You are passionate about innovation and development – a quality reflected in your leadership. What We Offer: · The opportunity to lead and develop a critical function within Aimpoint with significant strategic responsibility. · A dynamic workplace where collaboration and innovation are central values. · Great opportunities for personal growth and a key role in a globally successful company. · A work culture where engagement, quality, and having fun on the job are core principles! Are You Our Next Director Supply Chain? We want to hear from you! Submit your application today and take the chance to be a part of Aimpoint's success story. Why Aimpoint? We are driven by our core values: Performance, Innovation, and Commitment! - and we believe you are too! Just like us, you enjoy having fun at work and find interaction with others both challenging and rewarding. Collaboration with colleagues and customers is a natural part of the job. You can apply quickly and easily through our career page. Questions? Feel free to contact P&C Sr Recruiting Specialist, Sofie Selind, at: sofie.selind@aimpoint.com Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis - so don’t delay! Learn more about us and how we handle your personal data on our website. Important Information At Aimpoint security is a key factor and due to this, we perform a background check on all positions within the company before employment.