You will lead projects that connect JCDecaux’s sustainability strategy to the tenders it answers. Day to day that means working with sales teams and subsidiaries to meet the ESG requirements of cities, airports and transport operators, and turning group sustainability commitments into arguments that win public and private contracts. A second strand is rolling out furniture reconditioning and eco-design across markets, which means running working groups, building tools and keeping training on track.
This role sits where procurement meets climate and circularity. JCDecaux’s street furniture and advertising contracts are renewed through competitive tenders, so the ESG content of a bid can decide whether the company keeps a city or an airport. The person in this job makes circular furniture, lower-impact materials and biodiversity projects legible to public buyers, not as a side story but as part of the commercial offer.
This suits someone who has run ESG or sustainability projects inside a large, multi-country organisation and is comfortable in front of a tender document, a sales director and a working group in the same week. You will manage one intern on the mandants topic and coordinate a network of correspondents across subsidiaries.
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What are the main missions and responsibilities of this role?
The core mission is to make ESG a competitive advantage in public and private tenders. In practice, the person supports sales teams and subsidiaries in understanding and answering the ESG requirements of mandants such as local authorities, airports and transport companies, and helps translate the group's sustainability strategy into arguments that can be used in bids.
A second responsibility is accelerating the reconditioning of JCDecaux furniture, coordinating its deployment in subsidiaries and in offers, and driving the change dynamic through good practice sharing, tools and support for local teams. A third is eco-design: running working groups, teaching the practice and tracking training.
The role also covers responsible innovation projects such as biodiversity initiatives, upcycled bus shelters and PVC-free canvases, contributing to ESG argumentaries for French and international tenders, and animating an international community of correspondents. The person manages an intern dedicated to mandants topics.
Key learning opportunities for this job
The role offers direct exposure to how ESG criteria work in real public and private tenders, which is a skill few sustainability professionals get to build at this scale. The person will learn how a global advertising group organises its sustainability strategy across subsidiaries and how that strategy is turned into commercial language.
Eco-design and reconditioning are growing areas, and coordinating their deployment provides practical knowledge of circular economy in manufacturing and operations. Working with legal, finance, procurement and operations also builds fluency in how sustainability commitments are constrained by contracts and costs.
Internationally, the network of correspondents gives insight into how different markets interpret ESG requirements. Managing an intern adds a first line of people management experience.
How does the ideal candidate look like (experience, skills)?
The posting asks for a Bac+5 education with a specialisation in sustainable development, CSR, public affairs or project management, plus around seven years of experience in CSR project management, sustainability consulting, responsible innovation or public and private tenders. Experience in an international or multi-subsidiary context is valued.
The candidate should understand ESG issues and, ideally, how they translate into tender responses and mandant relationships. Strong analytical and structuring skills matter, since the work involves complex documents, evaluation grids and specifications.
On the soft side, the role calls for relationship building, pedagogy, a taste for change management, rigour, organisation and autonomy. Fluent English is required and another European language is a plus. The ability to coordinate across countries and functions is probably the single most important attribute.
Advice to stand out and make a successful application
Because this role sits between ESG and tenders, the application should show both. Rather than listing sustainability topics, describe specific bids or procurement processes you contributed to, what ESG criteria were at stake and what changed as a result. If you have worked on circular economy or eco-design in a multi-site organisation, make that concrete.
The posting emphasises coordination across countries and functions, so examples of animating working groups or networks without direct authority are worth including. Mention your level of English and any other European language, since international tenders are part of the scope.
For the interview, it helps to have looked at how JCDecaux presents its sustainability commitments publicly and how public authorities write ESG criteria into street furniture or transport contracts. Showing that you understand the commercial logic behind the ESG argument will likely matter more than general sustainability knowledge.
What aspects of the company's sustainability is this role likely to focus on?
The role's centre of gravity is the link between JCDecaux's ESG strategy and its commercial commitments to public authorities. That means the environmental and social criteria written into tenders for street furniture, transport advertising and airport concessions: circular economy through reconditioning, eco-design of furniture, materials such as PVC-free canvases, and biodiversity projects.
Governance and reporting also matter, because the argumentaries and indicators used in bids must stay consistent with group standards. The person will help make sure that what sales teams promise is backed by what the group actually measures.
Social impact appears through the animation of an internal community and awareness raising, and through the responsible innovation angle. The focus is less on internal carbon accounting and more on how sustainability commitments translate into offers, contracts and relationships with mandants.
What are the main challenges someone in this role might face?
The main difficulty is influence without hierarchy. The person must get subsidiaries and sales teams to adopt reconditioning, eco-design and ESG argumentaries when those teams face their own commercial pressure and deadlines. Change management across more than 80 countries is slow by nature.
A second challenge is coherence. Tender responses are written under time pressure by different teams, and keeping the ESG message and indicators aligned with group standards requires constant vigilance. Public procurement rules also vary by country, which complicates a single argumentary.
Finally, the role spans very different topics, from circular furniture to biodiversity to tender writing, and requires switching between them quickly. Managing an intern adds a layer of coordination on top of an already broad scope.
How could a typical day look like for someone in this position?
A typical day likely starts with a call or written exchange with a subsidiary or a sales team preparing a public tender, checking which ESG criteria the contracting authority has set and which JCDecaux arguments fit. You might then spend time updating an ESG argumentary or a set of indicators so that the language matches group standards.
Another block of the day could go to the reconditioning or eco-design workstream: preparing a working group, answering questions from operations or procurement, or following up on training attendance. Because the role covers France and international markets, meetings shift time zones and languages.
You would also keep an eye on the intern's work on mandants and review documents before they go out. The mix is variable: some weeks are dominated by tender deadlines, others by longer change-management projects with no immediate output.
What are the opportunities for professional growth and development in this role?
This is a senior project role inside a group-level sustainability department, which places the person close to strategic decision-making on tenders and responsible innovation. Successful delivery could open paths toward a broader ESG leadership position, either at group level or in a large subsidiary.
The visibility of the projects, biodiversity, upcycled bus shelters, reconditioning and major tender responses, means the work is seen by senior stakeholders across the business. That exposure is useful for moving into roles that combine sustainability and commercial strategy.
Managing an intern is a first step into team responsibility. The international correspondent network also builds a cross-country profile that can support later moves within JCDecaux's subsidiaries.
The main stakeholders you might be interacting with
The closest working relationships are inside the Sustainable Development and Quality Department, and with the sales and tender teams who need ESG content for bids. Subsidiaries are central stakeholders, since reconditioning and eco-design must be deployed locally and adapted to each market.
Beyond that, the role touches many corporate functions: marketing, legal, operations, finance and procurement, each of which has a stake in what can be promised in a tender. Mandants themselves, cities, airports and transport operators, shape the requirements indirectly through their tender documents.
The person also animates an international network of correspondents and supervises an intern. The nature of these interactions is mostly coordination and persuasion rather than direct authority, since the role works across entities it does not manage hierarchically.
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