ARE Job Description: Protein Transition Manager, Thailand
Location: Thailand
Contract: Full-time – Minimum 2 years
Reporting to: Director of Protein Transition, working with the regional Protein Transition team. No direct reports, but managerial decision-making.
Asia Research and Engagement (ARE) brings the voice of investors to Asia’s sustainable development challenges. We run direct and corporate engagement programs across Asia to address strategic sustainability issues and use dialogue, shareholder escalation tools, research and benchmarking to encourage senior decision-makers.
ARE launched the Asia Protein Transition Platform with collaborating investors in 2022, to help drive more sustainable and responsible protein. The platform hosts an aspirational 2030 vision and goals for the protein programme, and sets out specific investor-expected protein sustainability disclosures for Asian food and agriculture businesses, including for plant/alternative proteins.
ARE Protein Transition team is seeking a passionate, mission-driven Thai professional who appreciates the sustainability, health and humane potential of plant-proteins with skills in corporate engagement and supply chains. The person will need to scope the foodservice industry in Thailand and beyond, and engage listed foodservice companies in Thailand, to drive corporate commitment and targets for plant-proteins. This position will also involve working with allied Thai nutrition, health, sustainability and civil society organisations and experts. While leveraging the varied expertise of the ARE protein team, this role will effectively become the team expert, keeping abreast of the plant-protein sector and its corporate adoption and scaling, learning from global precedents, strategies and best practices relevant for Asia.
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Requirements and competencies:
Please provide your latest CV and a cover letter outlining your interest, skills and relevance against the requirements.
For queries and applications, email: [email protected].
Deadline for Application: 31st May 2025