The Managing Director, Americas is a senior, market-facing leadership role accountable for enterprise-wide growth of the Rainforest Alliance across South America and Meso America and for delivering the organization’s 2030 strategy in region.
Reporting to the Rainforest Alliance’s senior executive leadership, the Managing Director leads a team of Country Directors and manages a matrix structure to bring maximum impact at regional and country levels. Country Directors are accountable for operational execution and for identifying growth opportunities aligned with the global strategy. The Managing Director retains ownership of the regional P&L, program implementation, and the support departments required to deliver the 2030 strategy in the region.
The Managing Director drives impact and revenue growth by using the Rainforest Alliance’s standardized products and programs to build impact both with and beyond certification. This includes leading in-region business partnerships and cultivating potential donors. Additionally, it involves pursuing focused growth across various areas, including regenerative agriculture, climate, bio-economies, and the expansion of new crops where supply and demand align profitably.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
Drive the 2030 Strategy in the Region
Manage a team of Country Directors to deliver the 2030 strategy, adapted to each respective country.
Identify and develop opportunities aligned with our value propositions, making an impact with producers and the environment while meeting partner and donor goals.
Drive Impact & Revenue Growth
Create opportunities that use our products and programs to build impact both with and beyond certification.
Facilitate and support the transition to regenerative agriculture.
Advance climate initiatives, including measurement, nature-based solutions, insetting, restoration of degraded landscapes, and sustainable forest management.
Pursue the expansion of new crops where supply and demand align and are profitable for the Rainforest Alliance.
Certification Enablement
Support adoption, remove local barriers, and act as a bridge between global product teams and local ecosystems.
Provide representation and advocacy with senior-level government stakeholders.
Regional Strategic Coordination with Global Functions
Ensure effective execution across our all internal departments.
Ensure alignment between global strategy and regional execution realities.
Program Delivery & Donor Management
Manage donor-funded program implementation and relationships, ensuring program delivery remain tightly aligned with the broader regional strategy rather than operating as a parallel track.
Stakeholder Engagement
Be Rainforest Alliance’s ambassador, building and managing relationships with government authorities and regulatory bodies, industry associations and sector leaders, private sector partners across the supply chain, and donors and multilateral organizations.
Strengthen institutional positioning, advance market relevance, and anticipate political, regulatory, and reputational risks before they become issues.
Strategic Measures of Success
Impact and revenue growth: drive significant revenue growth across the Rainforest Alliance’s unified value propositions resulting in quantifiable impact.
Stakeholder relationships: quality and depth of engagement with government, industry, donors, and supply-chain actors.
Market adoption: product and program uptake and positioning in the regional market.
Global–local alignment: consistency between global strategy and local delivery outcomes.
Program performance: impact delivery and outcome achievement for donor-funded programs.
Sectoral influence: active participation and influence in regulatory and industry agendas.