Vice President, Global Corporate Impact

Mercy For Animals

3d • $130,720 - $150,800 • Remote

About The Position

Mercy For Animals seeks a Global Vice President of Corporate Impact to lead its global corporate impact strategy and drive campaigns that secure meaningful corporate commitments, hold companies accountable for implementation, and produce measurable improvements in animals’ lives. Reporting directly to the President & CEO, this leader oversees the global corporate campaigns and engagement team and works closely with regional Managing Directors to align priorities, strengthen campaign capabilities, and maximize impact across regions. The role combines strategic direction with hands-on leadership, requiring sound judgment, disciplined execution, and a focus on results.

The Vice President partners with the CEO to set measurable goals, prioritizes high-impact companies and opportunities, manages the corporate impact portfolio, and translates priorities into campaign plans with clear objectives, owners, milestones, budgets, and success measures. The role emphasizes verified changes in company practices and measurable animal impact, advances corporate welfare reforms, and assesses plant-forward and animal-protein-reduction initiatives where they align with strategy and can demonstrate meaningful impact.

The position directs global corporate campaigns from target selection and engagement through negotiation, public pressure, escalation, commitment, and implementation. It establishes credible expectations for corporate commitments, monitors their implementation, identifies barriers, and responds when companies fail to meet obligations. The role also leads and develops a global team, collaborates with regional leadership and cross-functional teams, contributes to organizational strategy and resource allocation, builds movement partnerships, represents MFA externally, and oversees the global corporate impact budget and related grant-funded outcomes.

Requirements

• Significant leadership experience in corporate campaigning, corporate engagement, animal advocacy, or a closely related field, with a demonstrated record of achieving meaningful institutional or corporate change.
• 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 major animal welfare challenges associated with industrial animal agriculture.
• Exceptional strategic judgment, including identifying high-impact opportunities, making difficult tradeoffs, allocating resources effectively, and translating strategy into measurable results.
• Demonstrated ability to build, lead, and develop high-performing teams, including across geographies and cultures.
• Strong understanding of corporate power, incentives, negotiation, reputational pressure, public campaigning, and 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 ability to use evidence, performance data, and impact measurement to inform decisions and improve effectiveness.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills, including credibility with senior corporate executives, coalition partners, funders, and organizational leadership.
• Proactive, resourceful, and decisive leadership style, with willingness to engage directly in difficult problems and take responsibility for outcomes.
• Strong organizational leadership and financial stewardship skills, including 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 determination to reduce suffering and end factory farming.

Nice To Haves

• 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

• Partner with the CEO to define and execute MFA’s global corporate impact strategy and establish ambitious, measurable goals aligned with organizational priorities.
• Identify and prioritize companies, industries, markets, and opportunities where MFA can achieve the greatest improvements for animals, working with Intelligence & Impact and regional leadership.
• Lead the global corporate impact portfolio and make disciplined decisions about investment, acceleration, adaptation, or discontinuation of initiatives.
• Translate strategic priorities into campaign plans with clear objectives, accountable owners, milestones, budgets, and measures of success.
• Establish and monitor performance indicators focused on policy implementation, verified changes in company practices, and measurable animal impact.
• Evaluate campaign effectiveness using MFA’s impact framework, contribute to measurement of corporate interventions, adapt strategies, and identify ways to improve impact and cost-effectiveness.
• Advance corporate welfare reforms and assess plant-forward and animal-protein-reduction opportunities where aligned with strategy and meaningful animal impact.
• Lead the development, direction, and execution of global corporate campaigns aimed at changing major multinational companies’ policies and practices.
• Direct campaign strategy from target selection and corporate engagement through negotiation, public pressure, escalation, commitments, and implementation.
• Influence corporate decision-makers through constructive engagement, negotiation, strategic advocacy, and coordinated public pressure when necessary.
• Set clear expectations for corporate commitments, including implementation timelines, progress reporting, and accountability mechanisms.
• Track corporate commitments and implementation, identify barriers, and take action when companies fail to meet obligations.
• Develop campaign tactics, strengthen leverage, and build momentum across companies, industries, and markets.
• Monitor corporate, animal agriculture, and food-market trends and share insights with the Intelligence & Impact team.
• Coordinate with investigations, marketing and communications, organizing, policy, and other relevant teams on priority campaigns.
• Build relationships with corporate executives and influential stakeholders while maintaining MFA’s independence and willingness to challenge powerful institutions.
• Lead, develop, and empower a high-performing global corporate impact team, fostering ownership, courage, collaboration, accountability, and execution.
• Set expectations, provide feedback, develop talent, and hold team members accountable for results.
• Partner with regional Managing Directors to establish shared priorities, coordinate global campaigns, and strengthen alignment.
• Promote the exchange of tactics, market intelligence, and lessons across global operations, adapting approaches to local conditions.
• Identify ways to simplify processes, improve coordination, and use technology and AI to strengthen campaigning and organizational effectiveness.
• Serve as a strategic partner to the CEO and Senior Leadership Team on organizational strategy, resource allocation, priorities, and major decisions.
• Collaborate with Intelligence & Impact on evidence-based decision-making, emerging opportunities, and assessment of corporate interventions.
• Cultivate relationships and coalitions with animal protection organizations and movement partners where collaboration can increase impact while preserving MFA’s distinct contribution.
• Represent MFA with corporate leaders, movement partners, funders, media, and other external stakeholders as appropriate.
• Oversee deployment of the global corporate impact budget in alignment with strategic priorities and expected results.
• Partner with Development and Finance on grant proposals, restricted-funding stewardship, accurate reporting, and funded program outcomes.

Benefits

• No- or low-cost health, vision, and dental insurance.
• Generous paid time off and sick leave.
• 401(k) retirement plan with a dollar-to-dollar employer match of up to 3.5% of annual earnings.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed