Project Sourcing Manager

veritree•Vancouver, BC

2d•Remote

About The Position

veritree is an award-winning climate tech start-up based in Vancouver. Launched in 2021, our technology measures and verifies the impact of global restoration efforts from the ground up. We are on a mission to plant 1 billion verified trees by 2030, collaborating with businesses, planting organizations, and consumers who believe in the transformative power of verified restoration projects to create real and meaningful impact for the planet, nature, and people. As Project Sourcing Manager, you will play a foundational role in building and scaling veritree’s global supply chain of verified trees. You will lead the identification, due diligence, and onboarding of new planting partners, while cultivating the relationships and processes that ensure quality, transparency, and supply continuity at scale. This role is well-suited to someone who has built sourcing or partnership systems from scratch, understands what high-integrity field operations look like, and can bring structure to complexity without losing sight of the relationship context that makes partnerships work. The successful candidate will start with a focused mandate and grow into the full scope of the function as they establish themselves within the team.

Requirements

5+ years in sourcing, partnership development, operations, or a related function, with direct experience in nature-based solutions, restoration, or sustainability sectors strongly preferred.
Demonstrated ability to build sourcing or partnership systems from scratch, including due diligence processes, onboarding frameworks, and partner accountability structures.
Experience managing a portfolio of partners across international contexts, particularly in Africa or other emerging market geographies.
Track record of making and executing difficult partner decisions, including performance management and offboarding when required.
Familiarity with restoration monitoring, field data collection, or ecosystem-specific operational realities is a strong asset.
Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward a rapid pace.
Intellectual curiosity and strong process orientation: able to translate complexity into clear, repeatable systems that others can follow.
Comfort with ambiguity and a bias for action: You build things before they are broken; you don’t wait to be asked.
Sound judgment in ambiguous situations, particularly where documentation is limited and relationship context matters.
Direct communicator who can hold partners accountable without damaging the relationship.
Comfortable with a fast-paced environment where delivery expectations are high and the work moves quickly.
Ability to work cross-functionally with Product, Operations, Revenue, and Finance without requiring significant coordination overhead.
Deep care for the mission and the people building it.
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
Business, environmental science, supply chain, or international development preferred.

Nice To Haves

Graduate degree or MBA an asset but not required.

Responsibilities

Build sourcing playbooks and SOPs that make the process repeatable, trainable, and scalable.
Use data and partner performance signals to continuously improve sourcing criteria, due diligence rigour, and onboarding quality.
Identify gaps in current partner coverage and proactively flag emerging supply risks.
Identify new planting partner opportunities across priority geographies and restoration types, using networks, databases, inbound signals, and direct outreach.
Design and maintain a sourcing pipeline that provides the team with clear visibility into partner status from first contact through contracting.
Build relationships with restoration NGOs, government bodies, and sector networks to maintain a pipeline of credible future partners.
Own the screening process: define minimum criteria, document the questions and materials required at each gate, and make clear what disqualifies a partner from advancing.
Lead full due diligence on partners who clear screening: assess governance, field capacity, track record, monitoring capability, and scalability.
Develop and maintain a scoring framework that allows consistent comparison of candidates across different geographies and contexts.
Collaborate with legal and finance to structure partnership agreements, scopes of work, and service-level agreements.
Act as a senior point of contact for active planting partners, managing performance expectations, early escalation of delivery risk and enforcement of MSA terms.
Own the underperformance response process: remediation first, escalation when needed, and offboarding when the relationship is no longer viable, with a stopgap plan to protect supply continuity.
Work closely with Operations on tree forecasting, inventory visibility, and delivery coordination.
Collaborate with Product and Tree Delivery on field methodology standards, SOP alignment, and monitoring requirements for new partners.
Support the Revenue team with partner data, sourcing context for customer-facing commitments, and bespoke sourcing requests.