Sustainable Food Supply Chain Marketing Manager (Work from home)

Calling all ambitious, personable individuals who want a job with meaning! Want a full-time job working from home (some travel required) at a job that makes the world a better place? Set your own full-time hours, with room for growth, competitive salary and a results-driven atmosphere. This is a great job 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. Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia is required, with Bahasa Malaysia and Mandarin preferred. 

Lever Foundation is a global non-profit that works to promote animal welfare in Asia. You can learn more about Lever at: https://www.leverfoundation.org

In the sustainable food sector, we work with large food companies including Starbucks, Burger King, Costa Coffee, international retailers Metro and Costco, providing them with professional consulting services to help them add sustainable food to their supply chains. We also work with leading farms in facilitating their shift to more humane and sustainable farming practices, thereby improving food safety and quality, and improving animal welfare.

As a Sustainable Food Supply Chain Marketing Manager, you will build relationships and collaborate with leading egg producers in Indonesia and Malaysia to assist them in the transition to sustainable farming practices such as cage-free egg production in their facilities.

In recent years, in response to increasing concern for sustainability and animal welfare, over 2,000 companies worldwide and over 70 leading food brands in Asia and have pledged to use cage-free eggs in their operations, including Burger King, Nestle, Danone, and many others. Cage-free eggs are far more humane for animals, are much higher in food safety for consumers, and have become an important part of many companies' corporate sustainability pledges.

In this role with Lever Foundation, you will help educate more farms on the sustainability, animal welfare, and economic benefits of cage-free egg production. Your duties will involve providing industry updates, facilitating partnerships, and offering resources to assist farms in understanding and advancing this initiative. To attract and engage new farms, you will conduct online research, draft and send emails, make phone calls, and arrange visits and meetings with relevant stakeholders.

You’ll work from home and hours are highly flexible. You’ll have colleagues in Asia, Europe, and the US who will work with and support you. You’ll stay in close touch with them through calls, email and messages.

Through this role, you will gain hands-on experience working with leading food suppliers on sustainable farming and have opportunities for career advancement to managerial or other positions.

We do not require any particular educational or work background; instead, we're looking for a candidate with the specific personality traits and skills needed to succeed in this job:

Excellent interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to persuade and engage others

Ability to work highly independently, with a very strong work ethic

Resiliency — when you are ignored or brushed off, it does not discourage you but rather motivates you to try harder

Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia is required, with Bahasa Malaysia and Mandarin preferred

Personal interest in sustainability, animal welfare, or food safety

Significant sales or sales-style experience is a very strong plus but not required