Commercialisation Specialist

THE GOOD PROTEIN NETWORK LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A nonprofit focused on food innovation is seeking a Commercialisation Specialist in Singapore to enhance the alternative protein market. The role involves identifying commercialisation barriers, strategising financing for scale-up, and building stakeholder relationships. Candidates should have over five years of experience in related sectors and strong communication skills. The position offers a salary between $85-115K SGD per year with flexible work arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Working from home

Supportive colleagues and managers

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in relevant sectors such as agri-food or financing.
• Ability to engage with diverse stakeholders and build trust.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify and overcome commercialisation barriers in alternative proteins.
• Develop and execute financing strategies to accelerate scale-up.
• Conduct research to address scaling challenges.

Skills

Self-motivated

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Intellectual curiosity

Job description

Unlock commercialisation opportunities and affordable financing to scale up alternative proteins and create a sustainable, healthy and just food system

The Good Food Institute is an international network of nonprofit think tanks dedicated to improving the global food system for the planet, people, and animals. Alongside scientists, businesses, and policymakers, GFI’s teams focus on making plant-based, fermentation-enabled, and cultivated proteins delicious, affordable, and accessible. Powered by philanthropy, we are advancing alternative proteins as an essential solution needed to meet the world’s climate, global health, food security, and biodiversity goals.

GFI APAC covers the APAC region and is headquartered in Singapore. We are at an exciting stage in our growth, and are looking for a Commercialisation Specialist to join our team.

How You Will Make a Difference

The Commercialisation Specialist will be embedded in the Corporate Engagement team while working closely with our teams in Philanthropy and Policy to help unlock affordability as a decisive lever for sector success. You will focus on strengthening the commercial ecosystem for alternative proteins in APAC to shape a scalable, investable APAC market. In this role, you will identify commercialisation barriers and lead initiatives that accelerate commercialisation—working across the private, public, and philanthropic sectors to ensure alternative proteins can scale in ways that are technically feasible, economically viable, and supported by strong market demand.

A major initial focus of this role will be exploring catalytic and blended financing pathways that can unlock fit-for-purpose capital for scaling and infrastructure development. Governments and philanthropists across APAC are showing a growing appetite to back food systems and alternative proteins, yet the financing landscape remains fragmented, slow, and costly. Your work will lay the groundwork for viable blended financing mechanisms in the alternative proteins sector by building the relationships, shared understanding, and coalitions necessary to mobilise large-scale, low-cost capital for R&D and scale-up.

You will be responsible for:

1. Knowledge-building & thought leadership: Expanding GFI’s knowledge on commercialisation gaps, ecosystem enablers, and creative financing mechanisms with strong applicability to this stage of the alternative proteins sector’s development.

2. Strategy-setting: Leading the development and execution of a commercialisation and financing strategy that identifies high-priority initiatives that accelerate scale-up and catalyse more investment into the sector.

3. Conduct research and analyses: Based on your identification of knowledge gaps on key scaling topics (e.g., infrastructure readiness, business models, scale-up financing, cost drivers), execute and publish high-impact research and tools that can support sector stakeholders to address scaling challenges.

4. Spearheading initiatives to close funding gaps: Identifying, developing ,and executing high-impact initiatives that can reduce risk and improve affordability, including convening and building stakeholder coalitions where necessary for implementation.

5. Managing key stakeholder relationships: Conducting outreach to DFIs, government agencies, philanthropic funders, sovereign entities, and corporate investors to understand their appetite for catalytic financing pathways, educate them on sector opportunities, and build these relationships as our primary point of contact.

6. Cross-functional alignment: Collaborating with GFI’s Policy and Philanthropy teams to align commercialisation and finance strategies with policy incentives, industrial strategies, and philanthropic priorities.

7. Representing GFI APAC: Giving GFI presentations, leading and participating in activities such as roundtables and panels at industry conferences and events, and educating key stakeholders about opportunities, reflecting your position as a thought leader on this topic, honed from your knowledge of the industry as well as other industries with similar dynamics and scaling trajectories.

8. Supporting other projects in the Corporate Engagement team: Supporting or leading projects that help close gaps on taste and price parity of alternative proteins, with a focus on industry stakeholders across the supply chain.

9. Performing other tasks as assigned as a member of our small, nimble team.

Who We’re Looking For

The Commercialisation Specialist must:

• Have 5+ years of relevant experience in sectors such as agri-food, biomanufacturing, (climate) financing, infrastructure financing, or related fields.

• Be extremely self-motivated and a self-starter who excels at working independently and taking charge of your own learning and development.

• Experience in convening diverse groups of external stakeholders, with the ability to build trust, foster collaboration, and energise people to make the impossible possible.

• Possess exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with experience creating presentations, writing reports, and succinctly communicating actionable insights to stakeholders.

• Strong support and intellectual curiosity for GFI’s philosophy and mission, with demonstrated interest in alternative proteins, food security, public health, sustainability, and/or animal welfare.

• A commitment to GFI’s values: believe change is possible, do the best we can, share knowledge freely, act on evidence, and invite everyone to the table.

• Have excellent organisational skills.

• Comfort working remotely and in a rapidly changing sector.

Ideally, but not required:

• Experience in structuring or accessing public-private partnerships and related funding.

• The ability to speak other regional languages.

We want the best people, and we don’t want bias to get in the way. We welcome applicants of every background and are committed to an inclusive, harassment‑free workplace. Research indicates that men tend to apply for jobs when they meet just 60% of the criteria, while women and other marginalized groups only apply if they are a 100% match. If you’re excited about GFI’s mission but don’t meet every single requirement, please still apply — we’d love to hear from you.

The Fine Print

• Terms of employment: Full-time

• Reports to: Head of Corporate Engagement

• Location: Singapore

• Pay range: Annual salary between $85-115K SGD based on qualifications and experience.

• Benefits: Working from home, flexible working hours, opportunity to create real impact, respectful managers, and supportive colleagues.

• Application deadline: 31st December 2025

• Application process: We know what AI can do; here we’re hoping to get to know you. Please write in your own voice. If you use AI tools, please limit their use to light editing (e.g., spelling/grammar) so that the content and wording remain genuinely yours.

Beyond the initial screening process, there will be several further rounds. We look forward to hearing from you!

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