Cohort Specialist, Rhizome Architect

Canopy Planet Solutions

Next Gen Cohort Specialist coordinating global brands for sustainable pulp and paper agreements. Collaborating with teams to build connections and market conditions for innovative materials.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaMid-LevelSenior💰 CA$110,000 - CA$130,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage and activate a cohort of global brands, working with their procurement, technical, and executive teams to build commitments to procure paper packaging containing Next Gen pulp.
Facilitate agreement among cohort brands on common paper and packaging types, target suppliers, and volume commitments — navigating competing corporate specifications, timelines, and internal approval processes
Support brands in structuring and signing advanced market commitments (AMCs) or offtake agreements for products not yet in commercial production, including navigating legal frameworks around supply chain coordination
Troubleshoot barriers to brand activation — including marketing delays, R&D concerns, and green premium pricing — by framing risk, building confidence in technology, and ensuring supply chain economics work for brands
Build and maintain relationships with cohort brand contacts over time, serving as a trusted and credible interface between Canopy and corporate procurement and sustainability teams
Collaborate with the P4G brand, producer, and Next Gen teams to ensure brands have what they need on technology confidence, supply chain structure, and pricing — preventing unnecessary green premiums from being layered through the value chain
Work with the producer and Next Gen teams to identify and map priority producers in target regions; understand their customer base, feedstock relationships, and readiness to engage with a brand cohort customer model
Identify the placement of two or more supplier-centric cohorts structured around specific Next Gen producers in priority regions
Support cross-team coordination to ensure supply chains are pre-aligned and ready to present to cohort brands when windows for activation arise

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrated knowledge of industrial supply chains — particularly pulp and paper, packaging, or adjacent forest fibre commodities (e.g., palm oil, MMCF) or other commodity products for packaging
Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder processes or coalitions involving large corporate actors, including navigating competing interests, procurement timelines, and corporate decision-making structures
Strong project management skills; able to track multiple workstreams, manage competing demands, and maintain momentum across a complex portfolio
Negotiation and facilitation skills; comfortable managing conversations between parties with differing interests to reach workable agreements
Strategic thinking combined with the discipline to stay focused on organizational priorities — able to identify relevant opportunities without being diverted by tangential opportunities
Entrepreneurial and adaptive problem-solver; comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving contexts without a defined road map
Excellent collaborator; proven ability to work across internal teams and break down silos to advance shared objectives
Patient with process, impatient for outcomes — able to work at the pace of large corporate institutions while maintaining urgency around results
Experience in or meaningful connections to East Asian markets is an asset; willingness to travel to priority regions
Strong communication skills, including the ability to develop compelling partnership narratives and translate strategy into action
Comfort operating in a dynamic environment with multiple moving parts and evolving opportunities
Passion for environmental conservation, social impact, and mission-driven work strongly preferred
Embrace a “Yes, AND...” mindset to foster innovation and collaboration

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementnegotiationfacilitationsupply chain coordinationadvanced market commitmentsofftake agreementsrisk framingstrategic thinkingproblem-solving

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationadaptabilitypatienceentrepreneurial mindsetability to manage competing demandsability to track multiple workstreamsability to develop partnership narrativesability to work in ambiguous contexts