Scaling Team Leader

The Kuehne Climate Center (KCC) develops and implements solutions that transform logistics from a major source of emissions into an enabler of an effective climate transition. By decarbonizing logistics and supply chains and enabling the logistics required for industrial transformation, we aim to achieve durable, measurable, and meaningful climate impact.

To achieve systemic impact at the scale of entire industries, countries, or regions, KCC is establishing a dedicated Scaling Team. Working closely with the Applied Research and Impact Delivery functions, the Scaling Team will evaluate the economic and ecological viability of potential solutions, develop business and implementation models for scaling, and mobilize the partners, financing, and operational structures required to implement solutions at scale.

As Scaling Team Leader at KCC, you will build and lead the function responsible for translating innovative logistics and supply chain solutions into viable, scalable models with measurable climate impact. You will guide the development of business cases and scaling strategies, from modelling, to early opportunity assessment through pilot validation to the operational implementation of solutions at scale.

• Build and lead KCC Scaling Team, including team development, recruitment, methodologies, tools, and output quality assurance, establishing a strong capability for developing and implementing scalable climate solutions in logistics and supply chains
• Maintain an organization-wide view of the scaling potential of KCC's project portfolio, working with Applied Research and Impact Delivery to assess the economic and ecological viability, commercial potential, and scalability of proposed and ongoing solutions. Identify projects lacking a credible pathway to scale and prepare evidence-based recommendations for interventions, course corrections, or changes in priorities in collaboration with the responsible program leaders and the Executive Team
• Lead the development of robust business cases and scalable business and operating models for innovative logistics and supply chain solutions, ensuring sound assessment of economic viability, climate impact, investment requirements, market incentives, and relevant regulatory and institutional conditions
• Develop scaling strategies and implementation roadmaps, translating research findings and pilot results into concrete plans for large-scale deployment, and collaborating with Impact Delivery to ensure that pilot projects generate the evidence and conditions required for successful scaling
• Set standards and oversee the quality and practical relevance of modelling work, guiding the development of supply chain and business models, scenario analyses, and digital modelling tools. Ensure that analyses are technically robust, transparent about uncertainties, and suitable for informing real-world investment decisions, business development, and implementation at scale
• Lead and coordinate the operational scaling of validated solutions, orchestrating collaboration among industry actors, entrepreneurs, financial institutions, governments, associations, and other partners to establish sustainable operating structures and achieve systemic impact at country or regional level
• Build strategic partnerships and mobilize financing for scaling, developing a strong network across industry, development cooperation, public and private finance, philanthropy, and entrepreneurship; securing or facilitating pilot-phase funding and developing financing approaches for large-scale implementation
• Lead the Scaling Team's portfolio development and governance, including opportunity screening, prioritization, budgets, performance monitoring, and the preparation of investment cases and strategic decisions for KCC’s leadership and relevant governance bodies, including the Kühne Foundation Board

The KCC is a subsidiary of the Kuehne Foundation in Schindellegi, Switzerland. Established in 1976 by the Kühne family and is one of the largest foundations in the German-speaking world. As an operational foundation it is involved in the areas of logistics, medicine, culture and, since the beginning of 2023, climate action. The Foundation is independent, operational and international.