Packaging Sustainability Expert

Ready to turn your passion for sustainability into packaging solutions? 

Are you passionate about sustainable innovations in packaging? Do you combine technical packaging expertise with a drive to make a real environmental impact? Are you strong in packaging data analyses? Join our team as a Packaging Sustainability Expert and help shape the future of our packaging portfolio.

As a Packaging Sustainability Expert, you will play a key role in driving our packaging sustainability strategy forward.

To do this, the starting point is to analyze our packaging portfolio data, assess environmental impacts (for instance on carbon footprint or designed for recycling) and translate these findings into actionable projects. Next to that, you will deep dive into the world of packaging recycling and its future materials, to be able to drive our strategy forward. For instance by exploring the packaging waste material streams and its technologies or finding out the details behind new potential materials.

We work on fact-based transformation with science, data and knowledge, which is translated into innovative actions and new business models.

You’ll join our global R&D Packaging Team in Wageningen, where innovation meets purpose.

Being successful in this role means faster and better project execution by the teams, strengthening our packaging portfolio towards a sustainable future. Next to driving and building the data based knowledge on packaging sustainability, you will also execute packaging sustainability related projects.

In short, you will:

• Analyze packaging data to identify sustainability improvement opportunities and reporting it to the organization.
• Translate upcoming packaging legislation, provided by regulatory affairs, into clear implications for our packaging portfolio.
• Explore, build and deliver essential future packaging material expertise.
• Collaborate closely with external partners to ensure close connection from FrieslandCampina to developments in the market, enabling to define the best route towards the future.
• Deliver packaging sustainability related projects by leading or participating as the expert.