Head of Food

ABOUT HUBBUB AND OUR CULTURE 

Our vision is to create a world where everyone is an environmentalist, (whether they realise it or not). We inspire ways of living that are good for the environment, by designing campaigns that make environmental action desirable. We disrupt the status quo to raise awareness, nudge behaviours and shape systems. We do this with knowledge and playfulness… and we won’t make you feel bad. 

OUR VALUES 

Give a damn about the environment: it’s authentically at the heart of everything we do because we’re committed to taking action on climate change and the environment. We care about the difference we make and are honest about our impact. 

Curious: have an interest in people, places, trends, politics and the world we live in. Asks questions, seeks knowledge and has self direction to discover the answers. We have an eye for detail. 

Entrepreneurial: nimble and brave enough to take risks. Trusting instincts to experiment without fear. Acts like a leader and embraces context and freedom over control and process. Proud of independent spirit. Takes initiative and responsibility. 

Creative: re-imagining everything. Thinking outside the box. Trusting intuition and bringing magic to the everyday. Continually challenging our own status quo. 

Playful: positive and playful to catch the imagination and make people smile, because the world is serious enough. 

THE ROLE 

We are looking for an innovative, creative and purpose-driven leader to join Hubbub as our new Head of Food. The successful candidate will lead on Hubbub’s positioning, approach and delivery across all our food campaigns. We are looking for someone who can drive disruptive approaches to cutting food waste, nudge more sustainable diets using tested behaviour change techniques, and foster impactful commercial, community and local government partnerships.  

We need someone who can hold their own in discussions about the food waste hierarchy and keep abreast of rapid development in the plant-based food space. But most importantly the right candidate will be motivated to distil complex subjects into engaging, positive and playful mainstream campaigns that help people to live healthy lives and save money.   

Our new Head of Food will maximise our environmental and social impact while delivering work to the highest standards on time and on budget. And you’ll draw on your experience delivering complex projects to both lead by example and provide opportunities to develop our talented team.  

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Your role will include:  

Campaign Leadership 

• Providing strategic direction for high-profile food campaigns, balancing developments in food innovation with the lived experiences of the British public. You’ll be responsible for setting and achieving key outcomes as well as ensuring delivery of fantastic creative work on time and on budget.  
• Building and developing partnerships with major brands and corporates to reach a broad cross section of British society.  
• Seeking opportunities for our food work to complement and enhance other Hubbub campaigns and workstreams.  
• Managing internal teams as well as senior stakeholders. 
• Ensuring our impact data is robust and shared through compelling storytelling.  

Innovation and Creativity 

• Continually challenge yourself and the Hubbub team to think bigger and bolder, and to keep testing new approaches, ideas and ways of working. 
• Inspiring and overseeing high impact campaigns in Hubbub’s unique, positive and playful tone that help people from all walks of life to make a difference through the food they eat.  

Business Development   

• Strengthen relationships with existing funders in order to secure future opportunities.  
• Develop new project ideas informed by the latest thinking and societal and economic trends, and work with the team to turn them into new income.  

People Management & Organisational Culture  

• You will provide guidance and leadership to our talented Project Coordinators, Creative Partners and Senior Creative Partners, in addition to your line management duties. You will help them to achieve their desired project outcomes, while supporting their ongoing professional development.  
• Identifying needs or issues across the organisation and acting on them. This is a senior role in the team and the right candidate will be expected to challenge, enhance and contribute to Hubbub’s organisational culture as we continue to grow and develop.  

PERSON SPECIFICATION  

• We are looking for candidates who can deliver complex projects working with major funders and corporations.  
• You will have experience in the food and beverage industry, PR or marketing or food innovations.  
• Regardless of your experience, alignment with Hubbub's values is essential.  

Hubbub’s success and distinctiveness rests on the quality of our people. No matter where they are in their career, our employees are and should continue to be: 

• Intellectually and politically curious and engaged. 
• Proud of the work they do. 
• Upbeat, motivated by challenges, and tenacious in solving them. 
• Creative, innovative and playful. 
• Team players, sharing success and solving issues and challenges collaboratively. 
• Organised, dedicated and conscientious, with fantastic attention to detail. 
• Flexible, willing and able to respond to constant change and challenge. 
• Committed to communicating in a way that is compelling, clear, accurate and accessible. 

HOW WE WORK 

We do things the Hubbub way:  

• Research: We see environmental issues that need Hubbub’s action. We build ideas based on evidence and intuition. We gather insights and knowledge to understand the people and places we want to inspire. 
• Collaborate: we believe the cause is bigger than the organisation.We build collaborations of organisations, big and small, who share our ambition. 
• Design: We design campaigns that make environmental action desirable. We use behaviour change techniques, positive language and highlight the benefits. We use good design, seasonal hooks and a splash of playfulness. 
• Experiment: we constantly experiment, measure and adapt what we do, to find out what has the biggest impact. 
• Scale: We share what we discover, the good and the bad. When it works, we open source our ideas and build transformative opportunities that enable people to replicate and scale to have a bigger impact. 

BENEFITS  

• Ongoing professional development through our training partner, You Can Now 
• 5% employer pension contribution 
• Yoga and HIIT classes, and more 
• Flexible working (our policy is still TBD but will entail a mix of WFH and time in the office. You do not need to be based in London to apply, but you will need to be able to come to London, and elsewhere in the UK, fairly regularly).