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IFF Senior Lead Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Scientist in Hilversum, Netherlands
Senior Lead Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Scientist
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Date:Jun 27, 2024
Location: Hilversum, North Holland, NL, 1221JT
Company: IFF Family of Companies
Job Description
It’s an exciting time to be part of the IFF family. We are a global leader in taste, scent and nutrition - offering our customers a broader range of bio-based and sustainable solutions. If you are looking for an exciting position in an international company with a strong focus on sustainability and a world leading LCA team, this is the job for you!
Reporting to the Director of Sustainable Solutions, you will help execute our Sustainability Solutions Strategy with particular focus on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of our products from cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave. You will be part of a team with several LCA experts covering a wide range of products such as fragrances, biomaterials, enzymes, plant proteins, emulsifiers, sweeteners, texturants, flavors, etc. Your role will focus on our scent business, expanding our LCA capabilities and identifying opportunities and strategies for improvements, and communicating with customers and industry groups. In addition, depending on the successful candidates experience, you will provide similar support to other business areas such as plant proteins, enzyme solutions, or biomaterials.
The job will require frequent communication of results and insights to key stakeholders and customers. The LCAs will be used in the context of innovation (understanding hotspots and improvement opportunities), sharing of results and progress with clients, and substantiation of claims made by IFF and/or our customers. The role provides plenty of opportunities to help our business and customers to Do More Good.
Responsibilities:
• Complete cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave LCAs of IFF fragrances and scent ingredients
• Identify footprint reduction opportunities at both a fragrance and portfolio level and share with relevant internal and external stakeholders
• Expand LCA modeling in areas such as of enzyme use-phase solutions, plant proteins, or our new-to-the-world designed enzymatic materials, their derivatives and their benefits in use
• Communicate results in a meaningful and intuitive way to both internal and external stakeholders (incl. businesses, R&D and clients)
• Complete avoided emission calculations for IFF products in support of our goal to enable customers to save 50 times more CO2e than generated by IFF (Scope 1 & 2)
• Document results in SimaPro and other relevant formats (reports, articles, presentation)
• Assist in collection of primary data (and management) from suppliers
• Contribute to scientific articles and conference presentations
• Champion life cycle thinking and leverage LCA in both commercial and R&D
• Prepare and participate in customer presentations and dialogues related to LCA
• Participate in relevant external networks and associations
Job Requirements
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, science, or relevant education
• 9+ years of experience in chemical engineering, chemistry or relevant technical or sustainability role
• 5+ years’ direct experience with life cycle assessment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent relationship building and maintain strong working relations with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently
• Demonstrate positivity and be service-minded
• Strong team player with good interpersonal skills at reaching out and influencing across a matrix organization.
• Demonstrated ability to work strategically and with flexibility in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously
• Demonstrated analytical and systematic skills
Preferred Experience:
• Master’s degree in chemical or environmental engineering
This position will be in Hilversum, the Netherlands; other locations include Union Beach, New Jersey – USA, Copenhagen, Denmark, or Wilmington, DE - USA. Flexible work options available
IFF is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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 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. Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more.