International Advocacy Manager

Position description

-Anglo American is a leading global mining company, and our products are the essential ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Our portfolio of world-class competitive mining operations provides the metals and minerals that enable a cleaner, greener, more sustainable world and that meet the fast-growing consumer-driven demands of the world’s developed and maturing economies. Anglo American is developing what will become the largest mine in the UK, the Woodsmith mine in North Yorkshire. Woodsmith will mine polyhalite, a mineral rich in crop nutrients.

Agriculture is facing a huge challenge: we must produce more food in the next four decades than we have in the last 8,000 years of agriculture combined*, whilst addressing climate change and safeguarding soils. Our mission at Anglo American Crop Nutrients is to help farmers around the world increase crop production in a sustainable way by improving their efficiency, effectiveness, and flexibility through the use of polyhalite based products.

POLY4, our innovative primary product is a multi-nutrient granulated fertilizer. With no chemical processing and low carbon footprint during manufacturing, POLY4 is suitable for organic farming and offers season-long crop nutrition, whilst potentially improving drought and disease resistance and improving soil health. We believe that it is transformational in helping address food security challenges in a sustainable way.

Job Description
-Join us as an International Advocacy Manager where you will develop and manage the global government relations and advocacy strategy for the Crop Nutrients (CN) business in support of the business and marketing objectives. Priority geographies are the EU, USA, but the strategy will need to cover Brazil, China, India and other regions in due course.

Your duties will include:

• Develop and manage government relations and advocacy strategy in key international markets to support product positioning and market entry:
• Monitoring and mapping of key regulatory and legislative changes linked to our business (for example issues linked to fertilisers, the agriculture sector, and related sustainability issues)
• Identifying and participating in consultation where appropriate
• Government relations support to the product registration team and our ability to enter new markets
• Lead advocacy to secure change of government and societal attitudes to CN products and towards the industry, recognising a disruptive new product in the market, to secure future markets and premium positioning.
• Profile building: Secure governmental and societal support from key stakeholders where required, through stakeholder engagement and broader profile building opportunities.
• Partnerships: identification and execution of partnership opportunities with Governments, civil society organisations or multilateral institutions.
• Lead on emerging sustainability trends to support strategic planning, project, and business development.
• Develop and manage systems for a global stakeholder ecosystem in order to be able to maintain and build relationships and identify the risks to the leadership team accordingly.
• In conjunction with regional teams, develop and manage social investments in market countries, tailored to our market entry strategy, as our business develops.
• Work closely with Solutions and Market global team as well as Corporate Affairs team at Anglo American Group to develop and execute the above strategy.
• Support the Head of Corporate Affairs & the wider business in all aspects of the International Advocacy pillar regarding the Corporate Affairs strategy.

Qualifications

• -A university bachelor’s degree or master’s qualification in an appropriate discipline (e.g. economics, political sciences, law, public relations).

Knowledge and experience required:

• Extensive experience in the corporate affairs and international relations space. Must have experience or government relations in the US, or the EU or both as well as ease in doing global international advocacy.
• Knowledgeable in governmental policy processes, how regulations and legislation is formed in different jurisdictions, and how the socio-political agenda influences these processes.
• Proficient in Global issues monitoring, prioritisation and management tools.
• Established and demonstratable external stakeholder network.
• Experience of navigating multiple legislative landscape.
• Climate change and sustainability trends experience.
• Strong ability to synthesise the impact of evolving policy and regulatory trends on a business environment.
• A strategic approach to active campaigning on issues.
• Demonstratable and exceptional project management skills.
• A proven track record of working with the relevant industries, possessing a strong understanding of the principle issues affecting the sector.

This role is based at Charterhouse Street, London. The candidate must be willing to travel regularly to North Yorkshire and globally as required.

Application instructions

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