Calling all ambitious, personable deal makers 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 resourceful, influential and self-directed people who are highly skilled at interpersonal negotiation and sales, who are bold and resilient, and who want to do work that makes an impactful difference. Must be fluent in Korean and conversational or fluent in English.
Lever Foundation is a global non-profit that focuses on creating a more humane and sustainable protein supply chain in Asia and beyond. We work with large food companies and suppliers to secure commitments to more sustainable and higher-welfare practices. Our partners include leading food and beverage and hospitality companies such as Daesang, Homeplus, Shuttle, Accor, Marriot, Hyatt, Hilton and many others.
In recent years, in response to increasing concern for sustainability and animal welfare, nearly a hundred food companies operating in Korea (and many more abroad) have set corporate policies to source only “cage-free” eggs, which are far more humane for animals and higher in food safety. Lever Foundation has helped secure policies on this topic and other food sustainability topics, such as sustainable protein and plant-based foods. from over 250 companies across Korea, East Asia, and beyond.
You can learn more about Lever at: https://www.leverfoundation.org
As a Sustainability Program Manager, you will proactively outreach and build relationships with decision makers at leading food companies. You will help educate these companies on the environmental, animal welfare, and economic benefits of implementing stronger sustainable food sourcing policies, such as the use of cage-free eggs, in their supply chain. You will provide industry updates, connect these companies with potential suppliers, and provide other resources to help them understand and set targets on the issue. In order to identify and engage with top management of the new food companies, you will actively network and outreach by doing online research, write and send emails, make calls, and conduct visits and meetings with companies.
You get the benefits of working from home with flexible hours, and you’ll have wonderful colleagues in Asia, Europe, and the US to work with you and support you. Through this work, you will have hands-on experience working with leading food companies on corporate sustainability, with room for advancement to managerial or other positions.
We do not require any particular educational or work background, although prior experience in sales, negotiation, business development or similar work is a plus.
We're looking for an aspiring candidate with the following personality traits and skills needed to succeed in this job:
Lever Foundation is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt public charity headquartered in the United States, with a diverse team based primarily in Asia with additional staff in Europe and the Americas. Lever creates a more humane and sustainable protein supply chain in Asia by upgrading animal protein to reduce animal suffering and advancing alternative protein to ease agriculture's impact on the environment by removing the most intensive factory farming practices.
Lever works with talented entrepreneurs across mainland China and Southeast Asia to create new alternative protein companies and offer critical early support to promising existing startups to develop a more sustainable, scalable food supply. Lever is also active with food companies and media outlets to increase interest and activity in the sector and educate consumers.
Lever works with food companies and producers to help remove the worst factory farming cruelties from their supply chains. This work includes comprehensive animal welfare policies impacting egg-laying hens, broiler chickens, pigs, cows, and fish. Lever has engaged with over 4,000 companies, including; Restaurant Brands International, METRO Group, JDE Peets, Hilton, Marriott, and many others.
