POSITION SUMMARY:

The Rainforest Alliance has a rich and measurable history of investment in internal innovation, staff, processes, and operations. Beginning in 2019, the Rainforest Alliance started building an in-house innovation team with the objective to launch ground-breaking innovations. Today that team has grown to 7 number of staff with skills in innovation strategy, design-thinking, service design, financial modelling, market research, facilitation, capacity-building, and training. The team services innovation needs across the organization; from learning and education of innovation skills, to support for concept development, from incremental to transformational concepts.

To enable the Rainforest Alliance to maximize the outcomes of the various concepts that are being developed, we are looking for an Innovation Process Manager who will implement and manage a global portfolio management process.

The Rainforest Alliance seeks a highly organized, Innovation Process Manager with a strong sense for strategy, systems, and data analytics to build a robust process for capturing, tracking, and monitoring an organization-wide Programme and Product portfolio. The manager will take ownership of rolling out and institutionalizing the new Portfolio Management Process across the global organization.

Success in this position is demonstrated by 1) the organization’s ability to implement and adopt the Portfolio management process, 2) the creation, management, and evaluation of a comprehensive, dynamic portfolio of new programmes and products, including incremental, adjacent and ground-breaking innovations 3) the ability to measure, report on, and evaluate concepts in the portfolio in order to resource and progress the most promising concepts.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive evidence-based decision making for the Rainforest Alliance to invest in those new programmes and products that will be most impactful towards our 2030 Strategy.
• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of the Innovation Management Process through internal promotional events, creation of learning documents, hosting regional office hours, etc
• Lead the development or sourcing of a data analytics system for capturing, recording, and tracking each new concepts.
• Regularly produce reports and/or a dashboard that present the status of the portfolio to the Innovation Director and the Executive Leadership team to support high-level decisions.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships across teams within the Rainforest Alliance.
• Support the process to review, evaluate and organize go/no-go calls for initiatives in the portfolio.
• Contribute to and influence strategic direction to enable effective and impactful new programme and product development, using informal and formal communication.
• The Rainforest Alliance’s Core Values are Impact, Change, Collaboration, Openness and Trust and as such they form the basis of the behaviours we demonstrate.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BA or MA Degree in a relevant field, e.g. Innovation Management, Business and/or Service design, International development.
• At least 7 years’ work experience in Innovation and/or commercial setting with a focus on strategy, portfolio management and/or data analytics.
• Experience with Excel, Power BI, and/or other data systems.
• Experience building internal organizational capacity and experience in organisational change.
• Demonstrates a high level of social intelligence, empathy, and patience with the ability to interact culturally, linguistically, and diplomatically with diverse internal and external individuals.
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple priorities in a time critical manner.
• Experience design thinking, prototyping and lean and agile ways of working.
• Proficient in English, both verbal and written. French and/or Spanish is a plus.
• Willingness and ability to travel.

Job Level: 3A

Salary: Commensurate with experience.

Deadline: August 11, 2023

Notes: Only candidates authorized to work in the Netherlands or the UK will be considered.

If you have any questions about the job vacancy, please contact the HR department: recruitment@ra.org

WHO WE ARE:

The Rainforest Alliance is creating a more sustainable world by using social and market forces to protect nature and improve the lives of farmers and forest communities. To achieve our mission, we partner with diverse allies around the world to drive positive change across global supply chains and in many of our most critically important natural landscapes.

Our alliance spans 70 countries and includes farmers and forest communities, companies, governments, civil society, and millions of individuals. Together we work to protect forests and biodiversity, take action on climate, and promote the rights and improve the livelihoods of rural people.

As an international nonprofit organization with more than 30 years of experience in sustainability transformation, we understand that the social and economic well-being of rural communities is tightly connected to ecosystem health. This knowledge has shaped our rigorous programs to advance sustainable land-use and commodity production.

At the Rainforest Alliance we combat climate change, protect forests and biodiversity, promote human rights, and improve livelihoods. The enormity of the social and environmental challenges we are facing requires working together in a broad alliance. This is why we bring farmers, forest communities, companies, and consumers together to change the way the world produces, sources, and consumes.

Why

To protect nature and improve lives it’s becoming increasingly urgent that we approach the way we use our land and produce food and other products in more sustainable ways. For this to succeed we need to fundamentally change the way that businesses operate and source, and the choices we all make as consumers.

How

Our growing global alliance aims to transform our relationship with our natural resources and each other, to create a better future for people and nature together.

The Rainforest Alliance encourages diversity and inclusion across the global organization. With this commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ages, disability, and any other protected group.