Next Gen Investment Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Develop and manage Canopy’s strategy for investing in the scaling of Next Gen materials, including determining regional capital requirements.

• Broaden Canopy’s Next Gen investor network and enhance key partnerships with investors.

• Create and sustain a qualified pipeline of Next Gen producers and projects within priority regions.

• Monitor the progress of opportunities, dependencies, decisions, and subsequent actions.

• Evaluate feedstock security, technology and operational readiness, management capacity, market demand, permitting, capital requirements, and primary risks.

• Validate claims using primary sources and generate brief, evidence-based evaluations.

• Identify project necessities such as customer validation, conditional demand, feedstock agreements, technical assistance, financing, or policy adjustments.

• Analyze financial and techno-economic assumptions to clarify capital requirements and financing deficiencies.

• Assist in preparing projects for engagement with funders.

• Create briefings, evidence packs, and meeting materials for producers, brands, investors, and partners.

• Engage in selected external discussions and document decisions, commitments, and follow-up actions.

• Support regional strategies through market sizing, feedstock evaluation, mapping of mills and converters, and analysis of policy, trade, and infrastructure.

• Collaborate with the Senior Director of Next Gen Transformation and colleagues involved in 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 discipline.

• Experience in the industrial, infrastructure, or commodities sectors is advantageous.

• Strong analytical judgment with the ability to validate claims, find credible evidence, identify gaps in information, and differentiate real progress from mere announcements.

• Comfort in working with financial and techno-economic models, including the ability to question assumptions and clearly explain implications.

• A systems perspective encompassing supply, demand, finance, policy, infrastructure, and relationships.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to follow through on multiple projects, regions, and contributors.

• Professional judgment and discretion concerning commercially sensitive or confidential information.

• Proficiency with spreadsheets, research databases, and other analytical tools, along with a quick learning ability for new systems.

• Knowledge of pulp, fiber, packaging, textiles, circular materials, or relevant regional markets is a plus.

• A CV, cover letter, and a separate 300–400-word response to the application prompt are required; applications that do not include the cover letter or prompt response will not be considered.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible work arrangements and a supportive work culture.