The HPC business seeks an experienced professional to lead and manage the certification and sustainability strategies for the HPC business, ensuring alignment with IFF corporate and H&B division sustainability goals.
Job Title: HPC Sustainability & Certification Leader
Location: Leiden, the Netherlands; or Lyngby, Denmark
Reports to: Global Marketing Director
The Home and Personal Care (HPC) business within IFF’s Health & Biosciences division has demonstrated category-leading, sales and market share growth which is expected to continue across market segments. HPC will continue to drive future growth by deploying our unique biotechnology capabilities to deliver innovations that address the performance, and sustainability needs of customers and industries.
The HPC business seeks an experienced professional to lead and manage the certification and sustainability strategies for the HPC business, ensuring alignment with IFF corporate and H&B division sustainability goals.
Responsibilities:
Strategy Development & Implementation
- Develop and execute sustainability strategy for relevant certifications for current and new technologies across the HPC business.
- Collaborate and coordinate with internal teams including regulatory, LCA, sustainability, supply chain, product management, marketing, and sales.
- Spearhead sustainability activities across the business as they relate to product-directed actions, including value propositions and messaging for product certifications and assessments.
- Analyse the current landscape and advise the HPC leadership on industry certifications and sustainability assessments for biotech, including new technologies
- Attain certifications for both short and long-term product portfolios by developing a management of change process, creating project plans with milestones and timing, and streamlining supporting materials based on customer certification needs.
- Work within H&B Sustainability team to finalize best practices and processes for completing and maintaining records of customer ESG requests.
External Stakeholder Management
- Lead the management of external sustainability consultants
- Collect customer feedback and collaborate with customers on sustainability initiatives.
- Participate in industry organizations that drive sustainability initiatives forward and create industry alignment.
Product Development and Supply Chain:
- Implement sustainability considerations in product development to drive the HPC portfolio towards more sustainable products.
- Look at opportunities in the supply chain for raw material improvements considering sustainability, hazards, and upcoming regulations.
- Develop sustainability training and literacy within the HPC organization.
Sustainability communication:
- Collaborate with segment leaders to develop sustainability content, including value propositions.
- Ensure all sustainability marketing claims are substantiated with data and evidence, adhering to green claims guidelines and regulations.
- Support sustainability customer requests and portals in collaboration with technical information team and SMEs
Qualifications:
- Educational Background:
- Master’s or higher degree, preferred in Environmental Science, Sustainability or related field
- Professional Experience:
- Prefer 10 or more years of relevant industry or functional experience. Minimum 5 years’ experience in a sustainability-related role, preferably within the HPC industry.
- Professional experience in personal care and home care will be considered an asset.
- Strong understanding of sustainability concepts and applications, including Life cycle assessment, product carbon footprint & environmental assessment of products and technologies.
- Proficient in LCA guidelines, including ISO 14040, ISO 14044, and ISO 14067
- Demonstrated ability to interpret and implement certification frameworks.
- Excellent project management skills, with ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Experience in innovation project initiation, success criteria definition, and value proposition development preferred.
- Experience in international roles and/or multicultural environments preferred.
- Skills and Competencies:
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- A customer-centric mindset, with the ability to lead through persuasion and influence.
- Great organizational skills, rigor, sense of service, teamwork.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and participate in diverse, multi-functional, multicultural, cross-geographic teams and networks.
- Demonstrated skills in communications, networking, and interpersonal relationships.
We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.
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