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

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