Role Summary

As our Senior Research Manager, you will play a key role in advancing ProVeg’s mission by generating and translating evidence that supports the transition to healthy and sustainable food systems. Embedded within the Research Department, you will contribute to shaping evidence-based debates and ensure that robust research is turned into practical insights for policy-makers, institutions, businesses, and civil society.

Working closely with colleagues across programmes, policy, communications, and country teams, you will serve as the research lead within ProVeg’s programme matrix teams. In this role, you will help shape research priorities, design and oversee studies, and ensure high-quality deliverables that directly support programme goals.

You will translate evidence into practical insights that strengthen policy and corporate advocacy efforts, ensuring research is relevant, timely, and actionable for decision-makers. This role suits someone who combines creativity with analytical rigour, takes ownership of complex projects, and understands how research can drive meaningful change in food systems.

Job Details

Reports to: Head of Research

Department: International Research Department

Location: Remote, ideally based in Germany or Spain. However, we welcome candidates globally who possess the permanent right to work in their country of residence and are able to follow a working timetable that includes core collaboration hours of 10am - 4 pm CET.

Hours: 32–40 hours per week

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver research projects as part of ProVeg’s Global Programmes and impact areas, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

• Identify opportunities and research gaps to support the achievement of programme and organisational strategy objectives.

• Work closely with colleagues across teams, countries, and disciplines to align efforts and avoid silos.

• Generate clear, actionable insights on consumer behaviour, needs, and market trends related to plant-based foods and plant-forward diets.

• Monitor and interpret developments in the plant-based, nutrition, and health landscape, identifying emerging trends, risks, and white-space opportunities.

• Translate complex data into compelling narratives, recommendations, and visuals for cross-functional teams, senior leadership, and external audiences.

• Produce high-quality research outputs, including academic publications, flagship reports, policy briefs, blogs, and thought-leadership materials that position ProVeg as a credible authority in nutrition and health.

• Contribute to shared organisational knowledge by documenting methods, tools, and learnings that others across ProVeg can build on.

• Support the Comms Departments with press requests and media releases, answer internal research requests in a timely manner, and prepare briefings or presentations for the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) for speaking engagements or external meetings.

• Lead own projects from design to implementation, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations and support in budget acquisition, project implementation plans, including risk mitigation and project team management

• Task manage or supervise other team member(s) as required

External engagement

• Build relationships with key strategic partners that help us achieve our goals

• Represent ProVeg and give presentations and talks at specialised events/conferences, as required

Qualifications

• You bring a Master’s degree in nutrition, public health, sustainable development, environmental sciences, consumer research, or a related field and at least 5 years of work experience.

• Proven experience working within a federated network, global secretariat, or organization with semi-autonomous country offices.

• Pragmatic, solution-oriented and supportive approach and behaviour in all contexts to promote ProVeg's vision and mission

• You demonstrate strong analytical and evidence-based thinking, with the ability to balance ambition with methodological rigour.

• You bring experience with data analysis and research tools (e.g. R, Stata, SAS, SPSS) as well as survey design and mixed-methods research.

• You have hands-on experience designing and delivering qualitative and quantitative research

• You communicate complex findings clearly through strong writing, storytelling, and presentation skills.

• You have project management experience and are comfortable owning timelines, priorities, and deliverables.

• Willingness to travel to conferences and relevant stakeholder meetings

• You are fluent in written and spoken English and communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders in multicultural settings. Additional languages an advantage

Preferred/nice to have

• You bring a PhD in nutrition, sustainable development, environmental sciences, economics, marketing, development studies, or a related field.

• You have contributed to academic publications or high-profile research and thought-leadership outputs.

• You bring experience working with commercial, market, or consumer insights to support initiatives that accelerate the uptake of plant-forward or sustainable food products across different markets.
  
  

When?

Application deadline: 28.5.2026

Start date: As soon as possible

Benefits of Working With Us

• Flexible working hours with the option of compensating overtime with time off.

• Full remote work with the option to work in our Berlin Office (if based in Berlin).

• Option to work temporarily from abroad (in compliance with the 183-day annual limit)

• 25 days basic holiday (FTE) plus one additional day of holiday per year (additional days of holiday can be “bought” via small salary adjustments).

• A respectful working atmosphere in a highly motivated team.

• A strong focus on personal development and a designated training budget.

• Provision of a work laptop

• Mindfulness programme and mental wellbeing – free membership for Open Up und Headspace.

• We are an inclusive workplace for our diverse employees around the world and encourage everyone in our organisation to bring all aspects of themselves to work.

• And last but not least: Join a great team and work with us to create a world where everyone chooses delicious and healthy food that is good for all people, animals and our planet!

Further Information

Please apply with your CV and a cover letter explaining why you are motivated to join ProVeg and describe how you can bring in your experience to this role. Even if you do not meet all the requirements, we still encourage you to apply. Our tasks are diverse, and we are flexible in how we distribute them. We are happy to support your growth and development.

We also encourage all applicants to apply without a photo or disclosing their date or place of birth.

If you are living with a disability, health condition and/or neurodiversity, please feel free to let us know how we can adjust and support your application process. For example, we can offer alternative tools, different interview formats, or additional time for tasks.

Important: Please make sure to use your own words and ideas in the cover letter. The goal is for us to know you better in order to assess if this role and your motivation are a good fit. Letters written with AI, or written in a language other than English, will be disregarded.

For any questions about the role or application process, feel free to contact people-and-culture@proveg.org. (Please note: Applications sent directly to this email address will not be considered. Kindly follow our official application process.)

Application Procedure

The recruitment process may include:

1. First screening of applications

2. Online interview with the People & Culture team (30min)

3. Online trial task (max. 2 hours)

4. Second Online Interview with the hiring manager and team (1 hour)