Work From Home to Promote Plant-Based Foods (India)

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 Hindi 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 across Asia and beyond. We work with large food companies to secure commitments to more sustainable and higher-welfare practices. Our partners include leading hospitality and restaurant companies such as Marriott, IHG, Accor, Burger King, and many others.

In recent years, in response to increasing concern for sustainability and health, leading hospitality and restaurant groups have set corporate policies to increase their use of plant-based foods. Lever Foundation has helped secure policies on this topic from dozens of major food companies across other Asian countries, and is now expanding this work into the India market. 

You can learn more about Lever at: https://www.leverfoundation.org

As a Plant-Based Foods Program Manager, you will proactively outreach and build relationships with decision makers at leading hospitality, restaurant, and food companies. You will help educate these companies on the environmental, health, and economic benefits of implementing stronger plant-based foods policies. You will provide industry updates, guidebooks, and 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, writing and sending emails, making calls, attending conferences, and conducting visits and meetings with companies. 

You get the benefits of working from home with flexible hours, and you’ll have wonderful colleagues across 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:

• Extroverted and proactive in building relationship and personal networks

• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and be highly engaging and persuasive

• Ability to work independently, with a very strong work ethic and a can-do mentality

• Ability to remain resilient and motivated when you are brushed off

• Personal interest in sustainability, animal welfare, or healthy eating

• Must be fluent in Hindi and conversational or fluent in English