Associate Sustainability Manager

Humlebæk, DK

Job Family: Quality Assurance

Country/Region: Denmark

Do you want to work with product sustainability in the medical device industry – and help us make our products even more sustainable? Ultimately making a difference to people with intimate health care needs and the planet?

At Coloplast, we are looking for a motivated and talented individual with great people skills who is keen to grab this opportunity.

Join an ambitious team working across a global organization
At our headquarters in Humlebæk, you will join the Sustainability department which is anchored in Global Quality, Regulatory Affairs and Sustainability. The Sustainability department is responsible for embedding and operationalizing the sustainability strategy across the organisation and supporting on sustainability-related topics across our business areas and strategic business units.

You will be part of the newly established Sustainability Product Impact team, making sure we enhance the positive sustainability impact our products create. We are responsible for creating a product sustainability strategy in alignment with the company’s long-term ambitions. As part of our Strive25 strategy, our team is responsible for recyclable and renewable packaging KPIs, and embedding sustainability into the way we develop and improve our products.

“Embedding sustainability in a medical device company is both exciting and complex. All of us working in the team have a solid understanding of the needs and benefits a sustainability transition brings to the company and we are excited to be an integral part of this journey” says Head of Sustainability Product Impact, Kostyantyn Pivnenko.

To succeed, we collaborate closely with a wide range of stakeholders within and outside of Coloplast.

Enable more sustainable products on the market
As our new Associate Sustainability Manager, you can expect to work closely with colleagues in the Sustainability department and across different functions. Your focus will be to assess the environmental impact of our products, providing a solid evidence base and documentation for decision making and communication.

Further, you will be supporting improvements in the way we define related processes and manage documentation and data, as well as address internal and external requests for information.

More specifically, you will:

• Carry out impact assessment for existing products and product changes
• Help develop internal tools and dashboards for reporting and analysis
• Review legislation and public space to capture trends and intelligence
• Support life cycle assessment (LCA) and create reports
• Work with guidance and requirements for sustainability product claims
• Contribute to strengthening the data foundation for qualified decision-making
• Support in answering market requests and provide analytical insights
• Build a good stakeholder network and navigate through cross-functional stakeholder management

Motivated, analytical and good people skills
Utilizing your excitement about the sustainability field and your analytical mindset, you will be able to pave the way forward in an international organization. Like all of us in the team, you are expected to take leadership in your work and create followship.

You are not afraid to ask questions and challenge the status quo, and you thrive when you get to contribute – both independently and in teamwork. Also, you have good people skills, enabling you to interact across teams and geography.

As an ideal candidate, you:

• Have recently finished (or soon will) relevant education within environmental engineering/management/science/economics or similar
• Have business mindset and good in stakeholder management
• Are a skilled communicator and user in Power Point, Excel, and other reporting tools
• Have knowledge of life cycle assessment methodologies and tools
• Have a can-do attitude with a high degree of personal efficiency
• Speak and write English fluently

Interested?
If you would like to know more about the position, please call Head of Sustainability Product Impact, Kostyantyn Pivnenko on +45 49 111 516. We will take candidates into the recruitment process continuously, so do not hesitate to apply. This position will remain open until a suitable candidate has been found.

Pursuing an ambitious growth agenda, Coloplast develops and markets products and services that make life easier for people with intimate healthcare needs. Employing about 16.000 people and with products available in more than 143 countries, we are one of the world´s leading medical device companies. We are constantly growing our business and always looking for new ways to move forward – we explore, learn and look for new ways of doing things.

Coloplast is committed to being an inclusive organization, where people bring their differences to work each day, fulfil their potential and have a strong sense of belonging because – and not despite – of their differences. We therefore encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of gender, age, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious belief or physical ability.

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