Full Time Global Policy Analyst Jobs, in Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) - Maukerja

About the Company - When you join GAR, you join something bigger. Big in scale, big in opportunities to grow, and big in impact. With over 100,000 employees across 14 countries, spanning Asia, Europe, North, and South America, Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) is one of the largest agribusinesses in the world. We manage over half a million hectares of palm oil plantations, including smallholder farms, across Indonesia. But our size is only part of the story. Since 1997, we’ve put sustainability at the centre of how we grow – working hand-in-hand with farmers, communities, and partners to deliver food, fuel, and a better future.

We’re a seed-to-shelf business rooted in palm oil, now expanding across other essential crops like sugar, soybean, sunflower, and coconut. Our people are our edge. We invest in them through global opportunities, cross-border exposure, and continuous learning, because growing a better business starts with growing our people. Here, your career feeds something meaningful – for the planet, for people and for generations to come.

About the Role - Reporting to the Head of Policy & Advocacy, you will be responsible for monitoring, analysing and helping to shape international policy and regulation on human rights, trade and sustainability that affects the business. You will also monitor trends and emerging issues, including but not limited to, forced labour and human rights due diligence regulation, international trade barriers, tariffs and trade agreements, deforestation-related market access rules and global carbon policy facing the palm oil sector and propose actions to mitigate risks or benefit the Company.

In addition, you will be the point of contact for policy requests. You will develop and maintain a global trade and tariff policy repository and an international tracking policy system to monitor and assess policy developments.

Key Responsibilities:

Policy Development

• Develops Company positions and policy responses on international human rights and labour issues.
• Analyses international trade barriers, tariffs and comprehensive economic partnership agreements (CEPAs), and the EU Deforestation Regulation as a market access issue, and recommends responses for the business.
• Monitors global carbon policy and standards, and analyses the implications.
• Researches and reports on policy positions for benchmarking purposes.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Builds and maintains working-level relationships with standards bodies, international organisations, government agencies, NGOs and industry associations.
• Act as a point of contact for policy requests and prepares talking points, presentations, briefing and position papers in support of the Company’s policy and advocacy needs.

Reporting and Documentation

• Provides tactical counsel on international policy issues, contributes to consultation responses, submissions and other written outputs for external engagement.
• Records meeting outcomes, tracks commitments made and received in external engagements, and any follow-up.

Staying Informed

• Builds and maintains a global trade and tariff policy repository focused on measures that affect the Company’s commodity trade.
• Establishes, implements and maintains an international policy tracking system covering the EU, the US, the ILO, the OECD and voluntary sustainability standards, read alongside the Indonesian coverage held in Jakarta.
• Distributes regular policy and trade updates to internal stakeholders
• Prepares issue briefings in advance of key internal and external meetings, when needed.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Political and Social Sciences, International Relations, Economics, Law, Business, Sustainability or a related discipline.
• 2 to 5 years of working experience in a related area, such as policy research or a think tank, public affairs, international trade, human rights or sustainability.
• Demonstrated research and report-writing skills, including turning complex regulation into concise briefs.
• Understanding of human rights and labour issues, international trade policy, tariffs and trade agreements and sustainability issues in palm oil industry.
• Ability to build and maintain databases and trackers, and to collate and analyse information efficiently.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Disclaimer: GAR conducts recruitment solely through official channels and will never request payment or personal financial information; any communication outside these channels should be treated as fraudulent.