About Beanstalk
Job Application close: 21 June 2024
Beanstalk AgTech is a leading food and agriculture innovation advisory and venture builder, dedicated to a step-change in the agrifood sector globally. We advise and connect food producers, startups, investors, governments & international development organisations to unleash agriculture’s potential as the leading force for good.
About the Team
We are a specialised team of strategy, agriculture, innovation experts and entrepreneurs dedicated to the agriculture and food sector in the Indo-Pacific. Our role is to catalyse the adoption of new technologies and build capabilities that help to unlock our ability to produce nutritious food in a responsible, ethical and sustainable manner.
As a business, everything we do focuses on driving long term community, ecological and business resiliency. This is the main event, not an afterthought. Our key long-term impact pillars are: improving agricultural productivity, improved gender equity & social inclusion, decreased climate footprint and natural resource degradation.
About the Role
As an Associate, you will be working within a team to deliver agrifood innovation projects across Australia and the Indo-Pacific region. You will be supporting a range of stakeholders – from early-stage startups to primary producers, and from multinational corporations to public sector leaders. Like peas in a pod, we’re a small and tight team with necessarily big ambitions to grow and fulfil our mission to create tangible impact across the Indo-Pacific region and beyond.
About You
· What drives you: You love working across a high performing team, are super driven, and have a laugh along the way. You are also personally invested in and committed to your teams' personal and professional growth by encouraging constructive feedback and lending a helping hand. You have an insatiable thirst to learn and don’t just accept things at face-value.
· Your professional profile: 1-4 years into your career in an Associate role and whilst you are thankful for the valuable skills you have learned in the business world; you are ready for your next challenge in a more hands-on and impactful environment.
· Words, numbers, and people: You love a good excel model and enjoy turning complex concepts into succinct recommendations by simplifying technical jargon and effectively communicating to clients and stakeholders. You can perform cost/benefit analysis and work with emerging technology and software.
· Areas you want to develop: You are self-motivated and want the opportunity to flourish in a role - to grow and make it your own. It is important to us that you are eager to grow with us, into progressively senior roles within our organisation. We have experienced consultants from organisations like McKinsey & Co. and Boston Consulting Group, former entrepreneurs, investors, and product owners who will continue to support you on your learning journey.
The vast majority of your time (60-80%, any given week) will be in a project execution capacity across 1-3 client projects at a time. As such, you will have a large say in how we go about supporting our clients and play a key position in driving our impact on-the-ground. Thematically, this could range considerably, with a ‘typical’ week including:
· A day per week helping a wagyu livestock producer to undertake a digital carbon footprint assessment;
· A day per week working with a Southeast Asian government to roll out digital transformation initiatives in the agriculture sector;
· A day and a half Building a commercial strategy for a cutting-edge AgTech innovator growing from Australia to SE Asia.
In addition, as part of a small but growing team, you will likely be asked to lean in on key internal initiatives that are underpinning the growth of our business (i.e., delivering our social impact strategy, helping to plan our annual offsite. etc.).
Location: Hybrid- Based in Australia or Singapore.
· Everyone has a stake in Beanstalk. In addition to your base salary, Beanstalk is in the
process of structuring the company so that everyone has a sense of ownership and reward as the company grow globally.
· Flexible working hours. We support our people to deliver on both their business and personal responsibilities and most importantly treasure the health and safety of our people.
· Radical transparency. We are building towards a culture of active transparency empowering everyone to contribute to building all facets of Beanstalk.
· Global presence. Our projects and team extend across the Indo-Pacific, everyone in the Bean Team is encouraged to lead, support and be on ground in the region as required.
