ARE Job Description: Manager – Protein Transition (Sustainable Agri-Food) Indonesia

Location: Ideally Jakarta (working remotely)
Type: Full-time, 1-year starter contract

About ARE

Asia Research and Engagement (ARE) brings investor voices to Asia’s sustainable development challenges. We collaborate with investors to encourage change at large listed Asian companies, using dialogue, benchmarking, and research as the tools to engage senior business decision-makers. Our work covers finance, energy, and food- agriculture. ARE is headquartered in Singapore and maintains offices in Singapore and China, with a growing presence in India, Thailand and Japan. Visit www.asiareengage.com to learn more.

ARE launched the Asia Protein Transition Platform with collaborating investors to help drive more sustainable and responsible protein systems. The platform maintains an aspirational 2030 vision and goals, and sets out specific investor-expected protein sustainability disclosures for Asian food and agriculture businesses, including for plant/alternative proteins.

ARE is seeking an experienced, passionate, mission-driven Indonesian professional who appreciates the sustainability, health, and humane potential of higher animal welfare and plant proteins. With skills in corporate engagement and supply chains, the person will need to engage listed agri-food companies in Indonesia to drive corporate commitments and outcomes for farm animals. This position will also involve working with allied sustainability and civil society organisations and experts in Indonesia and the wider region. While leveraging the varied expertise of the ARE protein team, this role will effectively become the team expert for Indonesia, keeping abreast of local agri-food sectors and corporates, while continuously learning from local and global precedents, strategies, and Asia-relevant best practices.

The Manager will report to the Director – Protein Transition, working with the regional Protein Transition team. There will be no direct staff reports, but managerial decision-making for the Indonesia programme.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drive strategic corporate engagement and advocacy for change at listed companies and banks, implementing the 2026 regional plan in Indonesia.
• Conduct situational and stakeholder analysis, with a focus on Indonesian agri-food corporates and context.
• Develop and manage effective relationships with corporates, allied sectors, and organisations, collaborating and co-hosting relevant events and communication outputs.
• Lead engagement with relevant listed food and agri companies and banks in Indonesia (and Malaysia if contract extended).
• Liaise where needed with Indonesian communication agencies, allies, and the ARE communication team for advocacy and communication assets and media opportunities.
• Monitor and report as relevant to the Protein Transition programme and ARE as a whole.
• Contribute to protein transition and ARE team insights for acceleration of farm animal welfare via corporate change (and potentially plant-protein adoption in future).

Requirements and competencies: 

• Agri-food corporate or NGO advocacy background with a minimum of five years’ corporate engagement, sustainability knowledge, or supply chain experience in Indonesia.
• A track record of collaboration towards a common goal and/or key corporate outcomes.
• A passion for farm animal welfare and ideally plant proteins, and their systemic benefits.
• Proficiency in spoken and written business Indonesian and English.
• Adequate proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, and ideally stakeholder management (CRM) software.
• Strong communication, including some external communication/media-facing skills/experience.
• Able to work independently, remotely and in a team, with a proactive and learning mindset.

Required attributes:   

• Tenacious, collaborative, and intellectually curious.
• Able to work in a multicultural context.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Identify themes, recognise issues, and be able to discuss constructive solutions.
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain client relationships.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex data; strong presentation and writing skills.

Interested in this position?

Please send your CV with a short cover letter in English, explaining your interest in the role and suitability towards the requirements to: [email protected] with subject line: “Application: Manager, Protein Transition Indonesia – [Your Name]”