Sector Development Strategist

About the role

The private sector will play a critical role in determining how quickly alternative proteins can scale across the Asia-Pacific region. Companies shape product development, manufacturing capacity, supply chains, investment decisions, consumer access, and the commercial pathways needed to make alternative proteins widely available. While the sector has made significant technological progress, major barriers remain to achieving commercial scale. Access to affordable capital, manufacturing infrastructure, strategic partnerships, supportive policies, and coordinated ecosystem support will be critical to determining how quickly alternative proteins can mature and compete. Many of these barriers cannot be solved by the industry alone. Success will require coordinated action across companies, investors, governments, research institutions, and other stakeholders. GFI APAC's Corporate Engagement team strengthens the enabling environment for alternative proteins by working across sectors to identify opportunities, build partnerships, align stakeholders around shared goals, and accelerate the development of a more resilient, investable, and competitive alternative protein ecosystem across the region. As Sector Development Strategist, you will help shape the conditions needed for alternative proteins to scale across the Asia-Pacific region. Reporting to the Head of Corporate Engagement, you will work at the intersection of industry, finance, philanthropy, and policy to identify systemic bottlenecks and develop initiatives that unlock sector growth. This is a highly strategic and entrepreneurial role. Rather than managing established programmes, you will identify opportunities, test ideas, build coalitions, and help translate promising concepts into practical initiatives. A major initial focus of the role will be to explore catalytic and blended financing pathways to mobilise affordable capital for alternative protein research, infrastructure, and scale-up. You are expected to work closely with GFI APAC's Policy team to help align industry needs with policy opportunities, supporting efforts to unlock investment, strengthen innovation ecosystems, and accelerate sector growth across the region. How you will make a difference 1. Shape GFI APAC's sector development strategy You will help identify and address systemic barriers to the growth of the alternative protein sector in APAC. Key responsibilities include: Developing and executing strategies that strengthen the commercial ecosystem for alternative proteins across the region and catalyse more investment into the sector by 2030. Identifying market failures, funding gaps, and ecosystem bottlenecks, and advancing solutions, partnerships, and enabling conditions that could unlock sector growth. Building GFI APAC's thought leadership on sector development, affordability, financing, and industrialisation. Conducting research and analysis on commercialisation pathways, scale-up challenges, and innovative financing mechanisms and translating these insights into practical initiatives. 2. Catalyse investment and ecosystem development A core focus of this role is helping to mobilise the capital, partnerships, and coordination needed for the sector to scale. Key responsibilities include: Exploring catalytic finance, blended finance, and other innovative funding mechanisms that could accelerate alternative protein development and deployment. Identifying lessons and models from adjacent sectors that could be applied to alternative proteins. Developing initiatives that reduce scale-up risk, improve affordability, and strengthen commercial viability. Convening stakeholders and building coalitions and partnerships around shared opportunities and challenges that unlock investment, infrastructure, research capacity, or market adoption. Working closely with GFI APAC's Policy team to advance initiatives that strengthen the commercial environment for alternative proteins, by translating industry insights and stakeholder needs into evidence-based recommendations that help inform GFI APAC's policy priorities, advocacy efforts, and engagement with public-sector stakeholders. 3. Build relationships to influence corporate action and advance GFI's mi

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The Good Food Institute The Good Food Institute (GFI) is an international network of nonprofit think tanks working to build a more sustainable, secure, and just food system. In partnership with scientists, corporates, and policymakers, we accelerate the development and adoption of plant-based, fermentation-enabled, and cultivated proteins. Our goal is to make these foods delicious, affordable, and accessible to consumers around the world. Powered by philanthropy, GFI advances alternative proteins as a critical solution to some of the world's most pressing challenges, including climate change, food security, public health, and biodiversity loss. Our mission is simple: A thriving world, fed sustainably.

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