Corporate Relations Manager

The role

The Corporate Relations Manager leads strategic corporate engagement to persuade food industry businesses to adopt animal welfare and plant-based procurement policies. This role manages a team of Corporate Relations Specialists to build relationships and negotiate commitments.

What you will do

• Lead corporate engagement strategies tailored to target-company priorities and incentives.
• Manage and develop Corporate Relations Specialists.
• Coordinate with the Corporate Campaigns Manager to sequence outreach and negotiation.
• Build strategic relationships with corporate executives and decision-makers.
• Lead research into target companies' business models, supply chains, and procurement practices.
• Lead negotiations with corporate decision-makers to secure measurable commitments.
• Apply insights from sales, conflict resolution, and behavioral science to negotiations.
• Monitor corporate commitments and coordinate with Corporate Campaigns to address noncompliance.
• Collaborate with departments across MFA to advance shared objectives.
• Oversee corporate communications, materials, records, budgets, timelines, and evaluations.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in corporate engagement, corporate advocacy, corporate affairs, sales, or related fields.
• Demonstrated success negotiating corporate commitments, influencing business decisions, or securing meaningful changes in corporate policies or practices.
• Strong understanding of corporate decision-making, business incentives, stakeholder interests, and negotiation strategies.
• Ability to build constructive relationships with corporate decision-makers while maintaining a firm commitment to organizational objectives and accountability.
• Strong, emotionally intelligent, interpersonal skills and ability to communicate professionally, persuasively, and diplomatically in both writing and verbally.
• Exceptionally strong work ethic and drive to succeed.
• Exceptional research, organizational, time-management, and project-management skills.
• Willingness and ability to travel 2-3 times per year.
• Commitment to the mission, values, and objectives of the organization.
• A commitment and openness to continued personal and organizational growth in diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice principles.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in business, psychology, public relations, political science, public policy, communications, or related fields
• Working understanding of the food industry, corporate procurement and supply chains, and the impacts of factory farming on animals

Benefits

• no- or low-cost health, vision, and dental insurance
• generous paid time off and sick leave
• 401(k) retirement plan
• dollar-to-dollar employer match of up to 3.5% of annual earnings

Before you apply

• Applicants should refrain from submitting materials generated entirely by artificial intelligence tools.

About the company

Mercy For Animals is a farmed animal advocacy organization aiming to end industrial animal agriculture by constructing a just and sustainable food system.