Corporate Relations Manager
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Mercy For AnimalsAnimal advocacy
Remote in the United States or CanadaFull-TimeManager
Salary66,730 - 79,700 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years’ experience in corporate engagement, corporate advocacy, corporate affairs, sales, or related fields.
- Required Skills
- Project ManagementBehavioral science
Requirements
- Have 5+ years’ experience in corporate engagement, corporate advocacy, corporate affairs, sales, or a related field.
- Demonstrate success negotiating corporate commitments, influencing business decisions, or securing meaningful changes in corporate policies or practices.
- Bring a strong understanding of corporate decision-making, business incentives, stakeholder interests, and negotiation strategies.
- Build constructive relationships with corporate decision-makers while maintaining organizational objectives and accountability.
- Have strong interpersonal skills and communicate professionally, persuasively, and diplomatically in writing and verbally.
- Bring exceptional research, organizational, time-management, and project-management skills.
- Be willing and able to travel 2–3 times per year.
- A bachelor’s degree in business, psychology, public relations, political science, public policy, communications, or a related field is preferred.
- Working understanding of the food industry, corporate procurement and supply chains, and the impacts of factory farming on animals is preferred.
- Commit to the organization’s mission, values, and objectives and to continued growth in diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice principles.
Responsibilities
- Lead corporate engagement strategies tailored to target-company priorities, commercial incentives, stakeholder interests, and opportunities for policy change.
- Manage and develop Corporate Relations Specialists by setting goals, delegating work, reviewing execution, and supporting professional growth.
- Coordinate outreach, negotiation, and escalation strategies with the Corporate Campaigns Manager.
- Build relationships with corporate executives, procurement leaders, sustainability professionals, and other decision-makers.
- Research target companies’ ownership, business models, financial incentives, supply chains, procurement practices, sustainability commitments, and decision-making structures.
- Negotiate measurable corporate commitments with implementation timelines and accountability mechanisms.
- Monitor corporate commitments, identify implementation barriers, and coordinate engagement or escalation on noncompliance.
- Oversee corporate communications, materials, records, budgets, timelines, and evaluations.
- Coordinate with Legal and Communications to ensure agreements and engagement activities comply with relevant laws and align with organizational messaging.
- Build partnerships with aligned advocacy organizations and represent Mercy For Animals in corporate meetings and events as needed.
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