Sustainable Mobility & Transportation Manager
As the Sustainable Mobility & Transportation Manager, you and a direct colleague will be responsible for the strategic development of the sector and for supervising 13 content-driven researchers/consultants.
Would you like to help build a more sustainable society? Then you’ve come to the right place! For 45 years, CE Delft has played a unique and leading role in developing structural solutions to sustainability challenges. We work with great enthusiasm on issues related to energy, the economy, mobility, and raw material and production chains. We are critical, open, and constructive, and our motivation is the societal value of our work.
CE Delft is organized into five sectors and operates in the following fields: Energy Supply, Business, the Built Environment, Agriculture, and Mobility & Transport. Within these five fields, research and consulting projects are carried out across some twenty specific themes.
We are currently looking for a new:
Sustainable Mobility & Transportation Manager
As the Sustainable Mobility & Transportation Manager, you and a direct colleague will be responsible for the strategic development of the sector and for supervising 13 content-driven researchers/consultants. In addition, you will leverage your own research skills by leading research and consulting projects. As the Sustainable Mobility & Transport Manager, you will share responsibility for securing sufficient work for the sector. You will do this by conducting business development activities yourself and by guiding colleagues in the preparation of proposals.
The Mobility & Transport team carries out projects in which we advise European and national governments, companies, industry associations, and NGOs on current topics such as: zero-emission transport, vehicle emission standards, the use of non-fossil fuels, the (sustainable) future of aviation and shipping, and sustainable urban mobility. In your role as manager, you will help determine the substantive direction on one or more of these themes and carry out projects related to them. In this context, you will maintain a network of external experts (scientists and researchers) and clients.
As a manager, you will also be part of CE Delft’s management team. This team currently consists of ten people (the managers of the other sectors and two members of the executive board). In this role, you will actively contribute to strategic and organization-wide issues.
Who are you?
- You are passionate about advancing the sustainability of Mobility & Transportation;
- You are a leader who brings people together and inspires them, who challenges professionals and gives them room to grow, and who takes the initiative and provides challenges;
- You have a good understanding of policy developments in the field of Mobility & Transportation;
- You enjoy making an active contribution to developments and innovations in the Mobility & Transport sector and within CE Delft;
- You are critical and analytical, have strong research skills, and know what constitutes a good research project;
- You have expertise in one or, preferably, more of the key topics in the field of Mobility & Transportation; You also have a strong network in these areas, which you can leverage to secure projects for the Mobility and Transportation sector;
- You have completed a college degree;
- You have excellent communication skills in Dutch and English, both for internal and external communication.
What do we offer?
CE Delft offers an informal, pleasant, and non-hierarchical work environment. You’ll be working with a team of knowledgeable, skilled, and motivated colleagues who are passionate about their work. Our work is often multidisciplinary, so you’ll frequently collaborate with experts both within and outside CE Delft.
We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits, including flexible working hours, the option to take vacation and holidays on flexible dates, free lunch, part-time work, and the ability to work from home. As part of your research responsibilities, you’ll have considerable freedom to develop in a direction that suits you.
Interested?
Send by Monday, January 27, 2025 your cover letter and resume to us via the application form on our website: www.ce.nl/werken-bij.
For more information about the position or CE Delft, please contact Arno Schroten starting January 6 at 015-2150150 or pz@ce.nl.
Recruitment agencies are asked to refrain from contacting us regarding this job opening.
