Mercy For Animals - Vice President, Global Corporate Impact
Requirements
• Proven ability to develop and lead sophisticated campaigns that influence major companies, secure meaningful commitments, and drive implementation and accountability. • Deep understanding of the global food industry, corporate supply chains, and the major animal welfare challenges associated with industrial animal agriculture. • Exceptional strategic judgment, with the ability to identify high-impact opportunities, make difficult tradeoffs, allocate resources effectively, and turn strategy into measurable results. • Demonstrated ability to build, lead, and develop high-performing teams, including experience working across different geographies and cultures. • Strong understanding of corporate power, incentives, negotiation, reputational pressure, public campaigning, and the conditions that lead institutions to change. • Ability to combine collaborative, constructive engagement with the conviction and determination to challenge powerful companies when necessary. • Strong analytical skills and the ability to use evidence, performance data, and impact measurement to inform decisions and improve effectiveness. • Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills, including the credibility to engage senior corporate executives, coalition partners, funders, and organizational leadership. • A highly proactive, resourceful, and decisive leadership style, with a willingness to engage directly in difficult problems and take responsibility for outcomes. • Strong organizational leadership and financial stewardship skills, with experience managing complex initiatives, teams, and budgets. • Willingness and ability to travel internationally as required. • Deep commitment to Mercy For Animals' mission and values, and a determination to reduce suffering and end factory farming. • Experience leading corporate advocacy or accountability efforts across multiple countries or regions. • Experience working within the global farmed animal protection movement and collaborating with international advocacy coalitions. • Experience developing or implementing measurable impact frameworks and managing grant-funded programs. • Experience with strategic portfolio management, including using evidence to guide resource decisions, impact evaluation, or data analysis.
Responsibilities
• do invaluable work • Global Strategy, Prioritization & Impact • Partner with the CEO to define and execute MFA's global corporate impact strategy, establishing ambitious, measurable goals aligned with organizational priorities. • Identify and prioritize the companies, industries, markets, and opportunities where MFA can achieve the greatest improvements for animals, working closely with Intelligence & Impact and regional leadership. • Lead the global corporate impact portfolio, making disciplined decisions about where to invest time and resources, which initiatives to accelerate or adapt, and which to discontinue. • Translate strategic priorities into actionable and holistic campaign plans with clear objectives, accountable owners, milestones, budgets, and measures of success. • Establish and monitor meaningful performance indicators, with particular emphasis on corporate policy implementation, verified changes in company practices, and measurable animal impact, not simply commitments or activities. • Continuously evaluate campaign effectiveness, using MFA’s organization-wide impact framework, contribute to how that framework measures corporate interventions, adapt strategies as circumstances change, and identify opportunities to improve the impact and cost-effectiveness of MFA's work. • Advance corporate welfare reforms as a core priority, while evaluating opportunities for plant-forward and animal-protein-reduction initiatives where they align with MFA's strategy and can demonstrate meaningful impact for animals. • Corporate Campaigns, Engagement & Accountability • Lead the development, direction and execution of bold, sophisticated global corporate campaigns that change the policies and practices of major multinational companies. • Direct global campaign strategy from target selection and corporate engagement through negotiation, public pressure, escalation, commitment, and implementation. • Develop and deploy effective approaches to influencing corporate decision-makers, combining constructive engagement and negotiation with strategic advocacy and coordinated public pressure when necessary. • Establish clear, ambitious, and credible expectations for corporate commitments, including meaningful implementation timelines, transparent progress reporting, and mechanisms for accountability. • Ensure that MFA actively tracks corporate commitments and their implementation, identifies barriers to progress, and takes decisive action when companies fail to meet their obligations. • Identify opportunities to develop innovative campaign tactics, strengthen leverage, and build momentum across companies, industries, and markets. • Monitor trends in corporate behavior, animal agriculture, and food markets, and share insights with the Intelligence & Impact team to inform MFA’s broader strategy. • Work closely with investigations, marketing & communications, organizing, policy, and other relevant teams to bring the full strength of MFA's capabilities to priority campaigns. • Build and maintain relationships with corporate executives and other influential stakeholders, while maintaining MFA's independence and willingness to challenge powerful institutions. • Global Leadership & Regional Collaboration • Lead, develop, and empower a high-performing global corporate impact team, establishing a culture of ownership, courage, collaboration, accountability, and execution. • Set clear expectations, provide candid and constructive feedback, develop talent, and hold team members accountable for delivering results. • Partner closely with regional Managing Directors to establish shared corporate impact priorities, coordinate global campaigns, and strengthen alignment without creating unnecessary layers of management or approval. • Foster the exchange of effective tactics, market intelligence, and lessons learned across MFA's global operations, adapting approaches to local market conditions. • Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve coordination, and leverage technology and AI to strengthen campaigning capabilities and organizational effectiveness. • Enterprise Leadership, Partnerships & Resource Stewardship • Serve as a strategic partner to the CEO and Senior Leadership Team, contributing to organizational strategy, resource allocation, priority setting, and major decisions affecting MFA's direction. • Collaborate with Intelligence & Impact to strengthen evidence-based decision-making, identify emerging opportunities, and rigorously assess the effectiveness of corporate interventions. • Cultivate strategic relationships and coalitions with other animal protection organizations and movement partners, aligning efforts when collaboration can meaningfully increase impact while preserving MFA's distinct contribution. • Represent MFA with corporate leaders, movement partners, funders, media, and other external stakeholders as appropriate. • Oversee the effective deployment of the global corporate impact budget, ensuring resources are aligned with strategic priorities and expected results. • Partner with Development and Finance to support compelling grant proposals, responsible stewardship of restricted funding, accurate reporting, and the achievement of funded program outcomes. • Your qualifications will take our team to the next level:
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