Senior Account Manager

About Earthworm Foundation

With most of our staff operating directly on the ground where the issues are, we work with our Member companies and other partners to make value chains an engine of prosperity for communities and ecosystems.

We see a world where forests are a boundless source of renewable materials and a home for biodiversity; communities see their rights respected and have opportunities to develop; workers are seen as productive partners, and agriculture becomes the instrument to feed a hungry planet while keeping our climate stable.

Our Work with Palm Oil

Our journey in palm oil began in 2010. Since then, we have pioneered No Deforestation, Peat and Exploitation (NDPE) policies with global brands and producers and co-developed the High Carbon Stock Approach (HCSA) to create a working definition for deforestation. Our traceability efforts helped businesses map their palm oil back to mills, farms and plantations across Asia, Africa and Latin America. This has informed our supplier engagement strategies, which are going digital, and led to innovation which leverages refineries as key influence points in the supply chain. Subsequent transformation ef-forts have benefited communities, landscapes, smallholders, suppliers and workers.

Earthworm Foundation and its members are working to tackle endemic challenges within the industry to unite the conservationists seeking to protect forests and endangered species, the communities whose livelihoods depend on the cash crops, the governments who need to spur economic growth, and the businesses who need a reliable palm fruit supply.

Your Role

As Senior Account Manager, you will be primarily responsible for:

• Serve as relationship and account manager for a large multi-national Earthworm Member company, developing Member work plans, ensuring high quality deliverables on-time and in-budget, providing strategic support and cultivating trusting relationships;
• Work with cross-functional teams to provide strategic guidance to the Member regarding their responsible sourcing across a range of raw materials and themes, including palm oil, forest products, regenerative agriculture, smallholder livelihoods, forest conservation, and human rights;
• Manage a small team through inspirational leadership, and continuously work for a motivated, happy and well-structured team including active development of the team’s capabilities and opportunities for growth;
• Demonstrate EF values externally by playing the role of critical friend towards our members – push the envelope and inspire/challenge them to create more equitable global supply chains;
• Provide insights to Earthworm Foundation teams regarding innovations in fieldwork and supply chain services which would support the Member to increase their positive impact;
• Support the Member companies to communicate the impact of its work with EF through its own reporting mechanisms and impact frameworks.

Your Profile

Passionate about environmental and social responsibility, with a strong understanding of business supply chains and sourcing issues, you ideally also worked “in the field” at some point in your career.

You thrive in relationship management, including with senior stakeholders, and love to influence decision making in order to generate positive impact. Being an excellent communicator, with strong presence, you know to convey a message in a way that can be received by others, combining directness with genuine compassion. Having a strategic drive, you enjoy finding creative solutions and a realistic path forward even in the most difficult situations, and are able to translate broad informational content into clear and concise narratives.

Being a natural leader and effective planner, you are able to independently prioritize, allocate resources and drive a large portfolio of projects simultaneously in an accurate and reliable manner. Thanks to your curiosity, great listening skills, positive attitude and deep care for the well-being of others, you naturally keep people in your ecosystem engaged and collaborating in a shared purpose.

You have demonstrated experience working in global supply chains either in the private sector or NGO, and will be comfortable in fast-moving, pressurised, complex, multi-cultural and changing environments.

Working Conditions:

• University degree in relevant field (business management, environment, sociology, international development) preferable
• 10 years experience minimum (including management of minimum 3 direct reports)
• Fluent in English (spoken and written) other language an advantage (French, Spanish, Bahasa)
• Full-time, Open-Ended contract
• Office in Lyon, Lille (France), London (UK) or Nyon (Switzerland)
• Citizenship or valid work authorization required

To Apply

If you are in search of having a meaningful impact, with a desire to innovate and act for the environment and human rights, this offer is for you! The team you would join is truly committed to and passionate about finding concrete solutions to improve relationships between People and Nature.

To join this adventure, apply by sending your application (resume and cover letter) at [email protected] before 03/03/2024 with the subject “SAM PO 2024” followed by your name.

Only selected candidates will be contacted.

Good Luck!