Position Overview:
The Supply Chain Roundtables (SR) Lead is pivotal to SFP’s mission of enhancing Indonesian snapper/grouper and global mahi mahi fisheries. This role focuses on managing supply chain roundtables (SRs), which are voluntary collectives of seafood companies committed to improving their sourcing fisheries. The SR Lead will define and implement SR strategies, handle administrative tasks, convene seafood companies, and provide actionable insights to SR participants. This position is integral to driving collaboration and sustainable practices within the seafood industry.
Key Responsibilities/Activities:
Supply Chain Roundtable leadership and coordination
- Provide leadership to assigned SR(s):
- Build and maintain relationships with industry participants.
- Contribute to developing and implementing a global strategy for increasing the sustainability of fisheries.
- Support the administrative aspects of operating roundtables including communications, reporting, and evaluation.
- Support the development team with identifying grant or sponsorship prospects, manage budgets of assigned special projects, ensure objectives and deliverables are met, and report grant-related work.
- Generate income from SR participant companies.
- Drive improvements to move toward and achieve strategic goals:
- Maintain routine communication and gather intel from field teams (internal and external), science/analysis teams, supply chain, and retailers/market (SFP partners and external).
- Research fisheries of interest.
- Engage and educate SR participants to facilitate supply chain improvement activities.
- Guide the SRs in sending requests for specific improvements to the field team, producers, FIPs, processors, national governments, regional fishery management organizations, and/or others.
- Coordinate with the markets team to organise retailer/market leverage to support SRs in making requests.
- Leverage internal resources to assist in driving improvements.
- Strategically recruit new participants to Supply Chain Roundtables
Development of food service engagement strategy
- Create a landscape analysis of food service companies dealing with seafood (e.g. distributors, national or regional restaurant chains).
- Coordinate with SR leads to develop a priority list of food service companies for engagement.
- Lead development of a strategy for engaging with companies on the priority list and coordinate refinement of that strategy with an internal SFP working group.
- Initiate engagement with priority food services companies to demonstrate proof of concept.
- Coordinate with the development team to identify grant or sponsorship projects for funding the food service engagement strategy.
General strategy and miscellaneous tasks
- Assist with developing strategies for biodiversity, markets, industry leadership, and small-scale fisheries through the respective matrix teams.
Essential Qualifications and Skills:
- 5+ years of experience in the seafood industry or marine conservation preferred
- Understanding of seafood sustainability issues, global seafood markets, and small-scale fisheries
- Excellent communication skills in English (speaking, reading, and writing)
- Excellent organizational and negotiation skills
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks
- Ability to handle sensitive information with strict confidentiality
- Personal qualities of honesty and integrity, and a commitment to conservation
- Flexibility to effectively balance independent initiative with team collaboration
- Ability to work within a framework of responsibilities, objectives, and deadlines without (or with limited) in-person supervision
- Ability to work comfortably and effectively in a fully online environment
- Strong knowledge of productivity software and/or platforms (i.e. Google Suite, Microsoft Word, Excel, and common business communication tools), ability to learn and adapt to new technology with ease
- Global cultural awareness to work and communicate with diverse colleagues and seafood industry representatives
- Scheduling flexibility to facilitate interactions with globally dispersed colleagues
Additional/Desirable Qualifications and Skills:
- Knowledge of seafood production in Indonesia/Latin America, familiarity with Indonesian/Latin American stakeholders in the seafood industry, and/or marine conservation
- Knowledge of food service industry landscape, primarily in the United States
- Verbal and written communication skills in Bahasa Indonesian or Spanish
- Familiarity with Salesforce
Compensation: $75,000 – 85,000 per year
