Commercial Manager, US East

Are you passionate about seafood sustainability and want to make a positive impact on our future ocean resources?

Are you a great communicator who enjoys developing and managing relationships with customers and key industry stakeholders?

If so, this Commercial Manager role could be the opportunity for you!

Join the MSC team, a diverse group of talented ocean and seafood enthusiasts, as we work to safeguard seafood for the future. This role contributes to MSC’s US commercial strategy with goals of raising awareness and demand for certified sustainable seafood on the East coast.

You will lead on the development of deeper relationships with corporate partners and a refined value proposition that will create lasting impacts for our oceans, the sustainability of the seafood industry, and the people that rely on healthy and sustainable protein for their diets. While your partners may be based in Eastern US, their supply chains and influence have a global reach. This offers the opportunity to gain experience with global teams and supply chains.

The Commercial Manager, US East will support and strengthen partner engagement in seafood supply chains on the East Coast of the US.

You will be responsible for managing existing key partnerships, working with the team to facilitate successful and transformative work with partners, and driving growth through an increased value proposition to partners on the US East Coast.

This position will work out of our Washington, DC office on a hybrid working basis.

Key attributes for this role include:

• Excellent knowledge of food supply chains and sustainability, with experience in the seafood industry desirable
• Knowledge of third-party certification schemes and label licensing is an advantage
• A customer-focused approach that is results-oriented and built on a foundation of relationship development
• A self-starter with the ability to take ambiguity and turn it into actions and results.
• Ability to support and foster a collaborative team environment where ideas, strategies, projects, and asks-for-help can be shared openly among the team

If you are ready for a new challenge and this has inspired you, please apply here! 

We look forward to hearing from you!

We’re an international organisation and our employees all demonstrate a level of cultural awareness, and value the diverse views and approaches relevant to the MSC program.

The MSC is committed to flexible working. The successful candidate will need to work from the Washington DC office for a minimum of 50% of their working time each month. The remaining time can be worked from home. During the onboarding process, hybrid work may require more in-office work than remote work.