Research Specialist Life Cycle Assessment

Research Specialist Life Cycle Assessment

For FrieslandCampina’s sustainability organization we are looking for a driven LCA specialist who would like to contribute to sustainability and join the FrieslandCampina Global Expert Team on its Sustainability Program on Farm, Science, Innovation and Application.

The Global Expert Team focuses on generating science-based facts and insights FrieslandCampina and its 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 reducing GHG emissions in FrieslandCampina’s supply chain as well as what the environmental impact is on product-level. As part of this team, you will be working on life cycle analyses cradle-to-factory gate.

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 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
• At least 3 years of working experience in Life Cycle Assessment in environmental (business) research or at least 5 years working experience in environmental research/consultancy
• Knowledge of existing 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

What we offer

• Unique company culture of Dutch heritage and international presence;
• To ensure a healthy work-life balance, we've implemented a hybrid work model for this role. You'll be required to visit our Amersfoort office no more than twice a week, allowing you flexibility while maintaining collaborative engagement;
• Receive home office essentials, such as an ergonomic chair, desk, monitors, and more, to support your comfort and productivity while working remotely;
• An NS business card, so you can travel to the office by train;
• When you’re not using your NS business card, you’ll receive a travel allowance of €0.23 per km, up to a maximum of 30km (one way);
• Keen on cycling? Take advantage of our bike purchase scheme, offering attractive tax benefits to help you acquire a brand-new bike. Enjoy the ride while saving on costs;
• Enjoy 200 hours of annual leave on a full-time basis, with the flexibility to sell or purchase up to 40 additional hours of holiday time. Your 8% holiday allowance ensures that you can make the most of your well-deserved time off;
• A workweek of (fulltime) 38 hours, an end year allowance of 5%, a salary within the range of €4.478 - €6.077 and a bonus scheme;
• Receive a company laptop and mobile phone, enabling seamless communication whether you're on the move or working remotely.
• 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 Data & Science 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 of LCA support. Within FrieslandCampina, we are experienced with LCA for years and we analyze yearly the data of our farmers to follow progress and identify, often jointly with them, measures to reduce environmental impact. As Research Specialist 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 decision-making e.g., on target setting, farm practices, product development, dairy processing, and consumer communication.
• Giving advice and placing things in a 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 backgrounds in the organization
• Guiding and teaching others
• Documenting fact and science-based outcomes in reports and/or publications

Staying true to who you really are, that is your starting point at FrieslandCampina. Because it is precisely by embracing our differences that we can grow together. We want to create a working environment that allows all employees to bring their best and authentic selves. If who we are suits you, but you're not sure if you're the best fit for the role, we still encourage you to apply so we can help you find the role that fits you best.

Team Details

For 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 of 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.