Sustainability Specialist Dairy

Do you want to work in a global company where you can contribute to a more sustainable food production? DeLaval is a leading developer, manufacturer, and supplier of solutions for dairy farmers around the world. As a company built on innovation, we constantly work to find ways of helping our customers do more with less.

Role and responsibilities
As Sustainability Specialist Dairy, you are responsible for translating DeLaval’s sustainability ambitions into clear, tangible customer value, with a strong focus on climate-related projects connected to our products and services, as well as circularity. Animal welfare is a fundamental part of our approach, with our customers and their needs at the centre.

By bringing strong customer insight and sustainability expertise, you help ensure that customer value and business relevance are consistently considered in sustainability initiatives and priorities. Through customer engagement and close collaboration with key stakeholders across the organisation, you contribute to climate-related projects and initiatives linked to our products and services, develop compelling value propositions and customer cases, and contribute to a clearer focus on where DeLaval should direct its sustainability efforts for greatest value and impact.

In this role you will:

• Drive and contribute to sustainability projects connected to DeLaval’s products and services, with a primary focus on climate and circularity, while ensuring animal welfare and customer value remain at the core.
• Act as the dairy sustainability expert, ensuring that sustainability-related initiatives are grounded in deep dairy knowledge and focused on developing and supporting customer value.
• Support and help advance the sustainability agenda, providing expert guidance to key stakeholders across the organisation.
• Translate relevant sustainability needs, trends, standards and requirements in dairy into practical commercial guidance.
• Actively contribute to the Sustainability team and projects, and support knowledge sharing across the organisation.
• Develop and maintain valuable sustainability tools and materials in line with the business strategy, regulations and guidelines.

Qualifications
To be successful in this role we believe that you have:

• Experience working with sustainability in a commercial context, such as customer projects, consulting or value-creation initiatives.
• Strong ability to translate complex sustainability data into clear, credible customer messaging and decision-support material.
• Experience with climate-related projects, GHG emissions reduction and assessing the sustainability impact of products and services.
• Knowledge of circularity and practical hands-on experience with LCA
• Good understanding of animal welfare and its importance in sustainable dairy production.
• Understanding of sustainability reporting requirements and standards, such as CSRD/ESRS and others.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience collaborating across functions and geographies.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Sustainability, Environmental Science, Dairy or Food Science, Agriculture, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

Meritorious
• Understanding of dairy farming, the dairy value chain and on-farm sustainability levers.

Working at DeLaval
Our core values Passion, People, Professionals and Partnerships connect individuals across entities and geographies. Success is far more than knowledge – it is strongly related to behaviour. At DeLaval we are all guided by our three behaviours: Set Direction, Make Things Happen and One DeLaval.

We offer you a workplace like no other, where state-of-the-art technology goes hand in hand with animal welfare. DeLaval is a part of the Tetra Laval Group together with Tetra Pak and Sidel. In addition, we offer:

• Secure employment and benefits from the collective agreement (occupational pension, work-related accident insurance).
• Parental leave compensation (approx. 10 percent of the employee's monthly salary).
• Wellness allowance of SEK 4 000/year.
• Private healthcare insurance.
• Flexible working hours and reduced working hours.
• 30 days paid annual leave.

Additional information
This is a full-time permanent position based at DeLaval’s headquarters in Tumba, south of Stockholm. We offer a hybrid workplace model, combining on-site work with flexibility to work remotely.

We review applications ongoing. We do not accept applications via email, however if you have any questions regarding the role or the recruitment process don’t hesitate to contact us.

Contact
Hiring manager: Maria Collin, Sustainability Director, maria.collin@delaval.com, +46 70-8321835
Recruiter: Mathias Gunnstedt, mathias.gunnstedt@delaval.com

About DeLaval
Our vision is to make sustainable food production possible. As a company built on innovation, we constantly work to find ways of helping our customers, dairy farmers, do more with less by providing world-leading milking equipment and solutions.

Today, DeLaval has approximately 4,900 passionate professionals operating in more than 90 markets around the world. DeLaval is part of the Tetra Laval Group.
See more at corporate.delaval.com