Senior Life Cycle Assessment Specialist
For FrieslandCampina sustainability organization we are looking for a driven, experienced LCA specialist who would like to contribute to sustainability and join the FrieslandCampina Global Expert Team on Farm, Milk and Sustainability Program, Data, Innovation and Application. The Global Expert Team focusses on generating science-based facts and insights dairy farmers can use to reduce their environmental impact by using life cycle assessments. The team collaborates with the external world and assesses the feasibility of environmental impact measures to reduce emissions, their contribution to improving biodiversity and possibilities to contribute to regenerative agriculture. Furthermore, the team also contributes to delivering insight on how dairy farmers can reduce GHG emissions in their production chain as well as what the environmental impact is of end-product in the product portfolio of FrieslandCampina. As part of this team, you will be working on life cycle analyses focused on farm sustainability as well as end-products. Are you the person who likes to make a difference with science-based analyses and advice? Are you experienced to interact and collaborate with other researchers in and outside an organization? Would you really like to make a difference on sustainability, then please react to this vacancy
What we ask
- Experience in Life Cycle Assessment
- bring unique combination of analytical, programmatic and visionary/strategic skills on climate and nature action
- Academic degree, preferably a PhD, in Environmental, Agriculture, Animal, Food sciences or other Life Sciences related areas
- A PhD and at least 5 years of working experience in Life cycle assessment in environmental (business) research or at least 10 years working experience in environmental research/consultancy
- Knowledge of GHG and LCA standards and hands-on experience with expert groups that develop these is considered an advantage
- Able to assess, improve and enrich current LCA methodology
- Excellent good communication skills, verbal and written
- Able to collaborate with (senior) management
- Team player with the following key competences: Broad view and interest, green drive, pragmatic, open, analytical, result-oriented, convincing, collaborative, eagerness to understand and teach others
- Fluent in English and Dutch
What we offer
- Unique company culture of Dutch heritage and international presence
- We offer great work life balance, and competitive salary & benefits package so you can enjoy it
- Workweek of 38 hours, competitive pension scheme, holiday allowance of 8%, end year allowance 3%, bonus scheme, flexible working hours and the ability to work from home (50/50).
- Diverse training and mentoring programs to help you grow on your own professional journey
- Exceptional support of cross disciplinary movement within the company to broaden your knowledge and growth paths
- A friendly and informal working environment, yet professional team members as sparring partners
- Autonomy and trust to create longer term impact that helps bring better nutrition to the world
- Free cheese and milk at lunch in the central office, and barista coffee to help you go through your working days with a lot of joy
Vacancy description
You are part of the Expert Team in Sustainability Strategy and work closely together with experts and scientists of this team, R&D experts, the Corporate Sustainability team, and the business. Besides your direct colleagues you also work together with disciplines across FrieslandCampina in need for LCA support. Within FrieslandCampina we are experienced with LCA for years and we analyse yearly the data of our farmers to follow progress and identify, often jointly with them, measures to reduce environmental impact. As Senior Researcher LCA your tasks and responsibilities amongst others will be:
- Building the tools and means to use LCA analyses to deliver the necessary insights to the company for sustainable decisions making e.g on target setting, farm practices, product development, dairy processing, and consumer communication.
- Giving advice and placing things in broader perspective
- Play a role in internal and external networks
- Keep up with developments and (co)design novel methodologies
- Report and present to people of different layers and background in the organisation
- Guiding and teaching others
- Documenting fact and science-based outcomes in reports and/or publications
Team Details
See all colleagues on LinkedInFor thousands of people every day, we are more than just a dairy company. To our farmers, our employees, the communities we serve, the businesses we work with and the people to whom we bring happiness, FrieslandCampina means something more. For them it's not just about what we do, but who we are. We value talented people from any background who want to contribute to something bigger than themselves. We encourage our employees to make decisions that benefit our entire company. At FrieslandCampina we own our own career and act accordingly. We trust you to make a difference in your job and influence the bigger picture. Working at FrieslandCampina means you are contributing to a better world, following our purpose nourishing by nature. It is our ambition to lead with sustainability, focusing on ensuring access to safe, affordable nutrition for the growing population while lowering our impact on our planet