Company Description
Calling all ambitious great communicators with sales, communications or advocacy experience who want a job with meaning!
Want a full-time job working from home anywhere in the world (some travel required) at a job that makes the world a better place? Set your own full-time hours, with room for growth and a results-driven atmosphere. This is a great role for productive, self-directed people who are highly skilled at interpersonal communication, who are resilient, and who want to do work that makes a difference.
Lever Foundation is a global non-profit that provides professional consulting services to large food companies and food producers to help them improve animal welfare and sustainability in their supply chains. Our partners include leading food companies like Burger King, Papa Johns, Pret a Manger, Starbucks, Marriott, Panera Bread, Costa Coffee, and many others. You can learn more about Lever at: https://www.leverfoundation.org
Job Description
As Seafood Program Manager, you will reach out to and build relationships with seafood producers from around the world to educate them on new technologies and production methods that improve animal welfare and sustainability. You will help them understand the benefits of these improved approaches, connect them with relevant solution providers, and provide industry updates on the increasing market demand for such improvements.
In parallel, you will reach out to and build relationships with key food companies (restaurant chains, caterers, retailers, hospitality groups, and packaged good companies) to encourage them to and help them to improve animal welfare and sustainability standards in their seafood supply chain. You will provide industry updates, connect these companies with potential suppliers, and provide other resources to help them understand and make progress on the issue.
In order to build these engagements you'll send emails and LinkedIn messages, make phone calls, join industry groups and conferences, and conduct meetings (typically virtual video calls) with companies.
You’ll work from home and hours are highly flexible. You’ll have wonderful colleagues in the US, Europe and Asia who will work with and support you, and you’ll stay in close touch with them through calls, email and messages.
Through this work you will have hands-on experience working with leading food producers and food companies on animal welfare and sustainability, with room for advancement to managerial or other positions.
Qualifications
We are looking for individuals with very strong sales skills, and therefore with sales-related or advocacy experience. This could include successful experience in direct selling roles, sales/persuasion-related communications work, or similar non-profit advocacy work. Ultimately, we want someone with the following personality traits and skills:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong ability to engage and persuade others
- A "people person" that enjoys communicating with others
- Success-driven personality, with strong internal motivation to succeed
- Ability to work highly independently, with a strong work ethic
- Resiliency — when you are ignored or brushed off, it does not discourage you but rather motivates you to try harder
- Personal interest in sustainability, animal welfare, or food safety
Additional Information
If this role fits your background, personality and interest, we look forward to hearing from you!
