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SENIOR CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT AND PARTNERSHIP MANAGER on SERVICE DELIVERY IN FOOD SYSTEMS

Publicatie datum: 18 december 2025

Are you passionate about contributing to change that matters and do you have experience in corporate engagement and developing public private partnerships? Solidaridad offers you a rewarding and meaningful job in an inspiring and international setting with the opportunity to make a real difference in the world.

We are looking for a:

SENIOR CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT AND PARTNERSHIP MANAGER on SERVICE DELIVERY IN FOOD SYSTEMS

Solidaridad works across global supply chains to ensure that producers can thrive in fair, resilient, and climate-smart food systems. As part of our mission to drive transformative change, we work to build viable farm businesses and strengthen access to high-quality, affordable services. Producers face challenges related to climate change, decreasing yields and rising demands for sustainable practices. The access to affordable agri-inputs and technology that enable producers to face those challenges, remain a major barrier, particularly for women and smallholders.

We believe that European service providers can play a role in bridging service gaps for producers, enhancing their welfare and strengthening resilience-all while operating within our planetary boundaries. To support this, Solidaridad Europe acts as a broker of services by linking producer needs with European providers of agri-inputs and technology. Our partners include for example companies offering enhanced seeds services. Moreover we work closely with retailers on Fruit & Vegetable sourcing, engaging them and their suppliers to co-design pathways that strengthen service delivery and improve sustainability performance.

The Senior Corporate Engagement Manager - Service Delivery in Food Systems will play a pivotal role in driving this agenda forward. In this role, you will cultivate strategic partnerships with EU service providers and retailers to ensure producers' enhanced and lasting access to relevant agri-inputs and technology. Such services include, among others, farm inputs provision (e.g. seedlings, planting materials, crop protection measures), on-farm services (e.g. planting, farm maintenance, harvesting, haulage) and processing services.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As Senior Corporate Engagement Manager Service Delivery in Food Systems, you will lead Solidaridad Europe's efforts to strengthen access to high-quality, affordable, and inclusive services at the start of our focus agri-food supply chains by working with European companies. You will play a key role in building partnerships that drive sustainability, rural economic development, and innovation. Your responsibilities will include:

Broker strategic partnerships

• Identify, engage, and manage collaborations with European private sector actors
• Act as a key liaison between European market actors and local implementation partners to ensure relevant, demand-driven service delivery in producing countries.
• Engage Fruits and Vegetables retailers to co-create service pathways that strengthen sustainability performance.
• Technology and Digital Solutions: Facilitate partnerships that bring appropriate technical and digital tools to small-scale farmers and processing facilities; ensure local adaptation and implementation
• Agri-inputs: Co-design context-specific solutions with European input providers to improve yields, reduce environmental impact, and strengthen producer resilience.

Co-design and oversee roll out service models

• Work closely with global and regional colleagues to design service propositions that address producer needs and market expectations.
• Lead engagement with private-sector platforms such as AgriTech Europe, SeedNL, and Impact Europe to identify and onboard suitable partners.
• Oversee pilot projects implemented by Solidaridad country and regional teams, ensuring that services are tested, adapted, and tailored to local contexts.
• Generate insights and evidence to demonstrate the economic viability of service models, including cost-effectiveness, adoption, productivity impact, and environmental benefits.
• Facilitate the scaling of proven models across regions and supply chains by strengthening partnerships with public and private actors.

Ensure inclusive and context-driven approaches

• Apply the three A's framework-Affordability, Availability, Accessibility-to ensure services are relevant and inclusive, especially for underserved groups such as women, youth, and informal producers.
• Ensure that service delivery solutions align with producer realities, sector dynamics, and community wellbeing.
• Actively contribute to strategy development and implementation

PROFILE

The successful candidate has:

Education and Knowledge

• Academic working and thinking level, with a relevant higher education degree in fields such as international trade, agronomy/agricultural sciences, international business, sustainable supply chains, or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of global agricultural supply chains, particularly service delivery systems, agri-inputs, agri-tech, and technical assistance models.
• Knowledge of sustainability challenges and opportunities in food systems, including climate-smart agriculture, and regenerative practices.

Professional Experience

• At least 7 years of experience working with or within the private sector on business development, commercial partnerships, or service delivery models in the food and agriculture sector in low- and middle-income markets (Africa, Asia, and/or Latin America).
• Proven success in corporate engagement and business development, including spotting market opportunities, shaping value propositions, initiating and closing partnerships, and managing key accounts.
• Experience in collaborating with agricultural input providers, agri-tech companies, service and knowledge providers, and/or retail partners.
• Demonstrated experience in the tropical fruits and vegetables sector, including export supply chains to the European Union.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong networking and relationship-building skills, with an existing relevant corporate network and the ability to energize partners around Solidaridad's mission.
• Ability to co-design and implement service delivery models, including piloting, validating, and scaling service solutions with local and international partners.
• Strong analytical skills to assess economic viability, adoption, environmental impact, and producer value of service propositions.
• Excellent communication skills in Dutch and English, both written and oral, with the ability to gather information, analyze and synthesize content, and produce clear, structured, and persuasive proposals, reports, and presentations.
• Additional languages such as German, French, or Spanish are an advantage.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with global and regional teams.
• Strong project and partnership management skills, including the ability to coordinate multi-stakeholder processes.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, with the ability to innovate, take initiative, and drive complex ideas from concept to implementation.

Personal Attributes

• Strong commitment to Solidaridad's mission of building fair, sustainable, and inclusive supply chains.
• Cultural sensitivity and ability to work in diverse, international, and cross-sector environments.
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on, solution-oriented approach.
• Willingness to travel internationally when required.

Other Requirements

Permission to work in the Netherlands / the European Union.

OUR OFFER

• A unique and rewarding job within an inspiring and international setting, starting as soon as possible;
• You will join Solidaridad Fair Markets team in Utrecht, and will have the opportunity to work with an innovative and dedicated network of professionals in Europe and across the world;
• A one-year contract with the possibility of extension, 36 hours/week;
• Gross monthly salary between EUR 4,024 and EUR 6,907 depending on relevant experience, based on 36 hours/week (salary scale 11 or 12);
• An additional holiday allowance (standard in the Netherlands) will be paid to the employee in May of every calendar year. The holiday allowance is 8% of the gross salary earned in the period from 1 June up to and including 31 May, prior to the date of payment;
• In addition, Solidaridad pays an end-of-year allowance equivalent to 8.3% of the gross annual salary earned;
• Solidaridad offers a non-contributory pension plan;
• Contribution to moving expenses;
• Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands, with national and international travel required

At Solidaridad, diversity, equity and inclusion are key to our collective mission, vision and values.

We aim for Solidaridad to be an inclusive place where all people feel heard, seen, and valued for their diverse identities, experiences, perspectives and skills.

We are therefore committed to ensuring a safe and healthy working environment by treating everyone with dignity and respect, enabling and empowering us to be ourselves and achieving our full potential as individuals and our collective mission as an organization.

Does this position appeal to you? Then please submit your one-page motivation letter and resume in English to and state "Application: Senior CEP manager- Service Delivery in Food systems" in the subject header. The closing date for this vacancy is 16 January 2026.

Questions can be addressed to or by phone to Myrtille Danse, Head CEP, (+31 (0)30 272 03 13).