Head of Food Waste Prevention in Cardiff

Job type: Permanent, full-time

Location: The United Kingdom (Banbury, London, Cardiff or Belfast), the United States or the Netherlands.

Hybrid working: You will be able to work from home and come into the office to collaborate with your team(s) when required. We have flexible core hours, and we don’t believe in a culture of presenteeism. We will discuss what is important to you during the recruitment process.

Salary & Benefits:

• UK: £65,900 - £77,000 + 10% pension, 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, 35 hour working week, up to 13 flexi-days, private medical insurance, life assurance, and much more!
• USA: $120,700 - $142,000 + 25 days paid vacation, medical, dental and vision plans (75% funded by WRAP), voluntary 403(b) plan with an employer match contribution (up to 6% after 1 year of service) and life insurance, as well as other benefits
• The Netherlands: €90,950 – €107,000 + benefits

Closing date: 6 July 2026 at 09:00 AM (UK time). WRAP reserves the right to close this role early in the event of a large volume of applications.

Who are we? WRAP is a global environmental action NGO transforming food, packaging, textiles and resource use systems in pursuit of circular living. For over 25 years, WRAP has innovated to meet the problems of the day. We prevent waste and pollution to save money, improve living standards and protect natural habitats. We reduce greenhouse gas emissions and water stress to strengthen resilience and help meet environmental goals. We improve resource use to increase productivity and growth. Across the world, we bring more than 1,000 businesses together with governments and civil society to tackle environmental challenges that require the collective action of many.

The role: Our global food waste prevention programme is setting the pace internationally, moving into a bold delivery phase - focused on scaling proven solutions, shaping business practice, and driving real, measurable reductions in food waste across markets worldwide. Around a third of all food produced globally is lost or wasted – a profound driver of greenhouse gas emissions, water stress and resource loss. The solutions exist. The momentum is building. What is needed now is leadership: to translate that momentum into measurable, lasting change across value chains and geographies.

As Head of Food Waste Prevention, you will lead one of the most ambitious food waste prevention programmes in the world. You will be a global strategic leader – accountable for impact, for influence, and for evolving the programme into its next phase of delivery and funding resilience. You will lead an integrated global team of four Programme Leads and approximately 14 specialists, spanning the UK, Americas, APAC, Europe and beyond. Your team and colleagues hold deep expertise and strong in‑market relationships. You will bring coherence and momentum to their work, connect the dots across the organisation, markets and topics, and work collaboratively to build the partnerships and funding that will sustain and grow WRAP’s impact.

What are we looking for?

• Senior leadership in the food system: A track record of senior leadership in complex, multi‑stakeholder programmes – navigating the intersection of business, government, civil society and international delivery.
• High credibility in food waste prevention or the wider food system: You understand the systemic levers for reducing food loss and waste across the value chain, and you know how to translate that understanding into programmes that shift practice at scale.
• Exceptional external engagement and influence: You have built and sustained senior relationships across different types of organisations, funders and geographies.
• Global programme leadership and delivery: You have led geographically distributed programmes or portfolios, working through matrix structures, regional partners and diverse delivery models.
• Funding development and income growth: You understand the landscape of philanthropy, government funding and corporate partnership relevant to food systems.
• People leadership: You build high‑performing, inclusive teams. You develop people, create clarity in complexity, and model the values and ways of working that make organisations thrive.

If you are motivated by impact, energised by working collaboratively to make change and ready to lead a programme that is setting the global pace on food waste prevention, we would love to hear from you.