Senior Environmental Specialist

For Essity, sustainability is an integral part of our business model and our strategy for growth and value creation. We are now looking for a Senior Sustainability Specialist to complement the Sustainability Products & Services team and to continue to drive sustainability efforts for our solutions. Be ready to realize your full potential and join us on our journey as we are breaking barriers to improved well-being.About the Role

Essity is a leading global hygiene and health company, dedicated to improving well-being through leading hygiene and health solutions. We work to create customer and consumer value while improving the environmental footprint our products and services. Essity follows a life cycle approach when designing products and services, procuring raw materials, producing products and all the way through how products are used during and after use.

In the role as Senior Sustainability Specialist, you will be part of developing sustainable products and services and contributing to our journey towards a net zero and circular society. This role will focus on sustainability for products and services in a Life Cycle Perspective supported by external standards and requirements.

We're looking for persons who embody our values, aren't afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and move at a fast pace. We're always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves. If this is you, we'd love to talk.

The position is based in Gothenburg and reports to VP Sustainability Products & Services.

Located just a couple of minutes from Mölndal train station in Gothenburg, Essity offers you to be part of an international business setting with over 1 000 employees and many contacts across different functions, units and countries. Flexibility is important to us, which is why we believe in a hybrid workplace philosophy. Our office environment is modern with a culture focusing on collaboration, innovation, well-being and care, development and commitment. We offer onsite learning, a healthy canteen, social events and many other employee benefits.

What You Will Do

The role supports production, products, services, brand and/ or innovations with sustainable, social, and environmental advanced expertise and assessments. This means that you will provide guidelines, requirements and standards in the environmental field for current and future products and services

You will provide advanced expertise and assessments in the following areas:

• General sustainability with focus on Environmental Footprint related to ISO and EU Standards

• Life Cycle Management from a Social and Environmental perspective.

• Climate targets guided by Green House Gas Protocol

• Sustainability assessments of products, services, or innovation areas

• General Eco design and understanding

• Guidelines and evaluation of sustainability claims for agreed areas

• Building competence and transferring knowledge of agreed sustainability areas

• Represent assigned environmental areas within Essity and externally in trade associations, standardization and/ or sustainability networks

Who You Are

• Extensive experience of performing sustainability assessments of products, services or new innovation areas

• Extensive knowledge and expertise from Life Cycle Management and Footprint ISO Standards (for example Carbon and Water).

• University degree or equivalent in sustainability, ecology, chemical or mechanical engineering

• Have a holistic and applicable scientific approach on sustainability including a life cycle perspective

• Good experience of working close with external customers in the sustainability field

• Ability to translate external stakeholder sustainability needs into consumer, customer, business, and societal value

• Good at simplifying and explaining complex matters for internal stakeholders

• Skillful in leading or actively contributing to internal and external networks (for example ISO/CEN Networks)

•  Experience of working in a global and cross functional context

• Fluent in English, both oral and written

We’d like to add that the ideal candidate for this position will do his/her work in a way that enables the business objectives and is therefore someone resourceful, well-organized, and proactive but also someone whom others enjoy working with.

Additional Information

We are looking forward to reading your application. Please, apply online through our website and provide us with your CV in English at your earliest convenience.

We work with continuous selection of candidates which means that you may receive a response before application deadline. If you proceed to the next step, responsible recruiter will contact you shortly after application period is over.

What We Can Offer You

At Essity, we believe every career is as unique as the individual and empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture. By breaking stigmas and taboos, you have the chance to work with a powerful purpose in a collaborative and caring work environment.

Other benefits:

• Compensation  

Holiday allowance | Bonus | Pension ITP | Extra parental leave payment | Possibility to exchange salary for pension | Optional additional insurances.

• Sustainable work life 

Hybrid working model | Flexible time rules | Walk-and-Talk Meetings | Reduction in working hours | Inhouse store with Essity products and snacks | Canteen | Coffee area | Fruit baskets | Period / incontinence products while at the office | Central location near shopping center and public transport | Payroll deduction season ticket for public transport | Beneficial car parking / Charging of electric car | Bike storage & changing rooms | Employee discounts in Mölndal center | Occupational health.

• Enjoy a fuller life

Social activities | Choir | Sports club | Dental club | Art club| Health activities | Health & fitness contribution.

Application End Date:15 jan. 2025Job Requisition ID:Essity249098