Sustainability Expert – drive change in the food sector

The food sector needs exponential change towards more sustainable and healthy food products. FoodFacts is a growing scale up providing better data and analytic tools to power that revolution, and is now looking for a Sustainability Expert. If you are fluent in LCAs, well versed in sustainability data and reporting practices and have an entrepreneurial mindset, FoodFacts could offer you a versatile role with great growth potential and positive impact.

About FoodFacts

Changing the way we create, produce and sell food products is essential to creating a positive health and sustainability impact in the world. The food system is responsible for 25% of carbon emissions, is the number one cause behind biodiversity loss, and consumes 70% of our fresh water. Food also has a major health impact, driving an increasing number of cases of disease around the world.

FoodFacts is on a mission to power the revolution towards more sustainable and healthy food products by providing better data and analysis tools to the food industry. The company started in 2020 and has several major food companies in Sweden on its client list, including most of Sweden’s retailers and a growing number of producers. FoodFacts works closely with experts from Stockholm Resilience Center, RISE and Chalmers to develop its dataset and methodology.

Read more about us at https://www.foodfacts.se

Role and responsibilities

The role will be versatile and require you to dig into detailed data, be entrepreneurial in tackling challenges and identifying new opportunities. You will be keeping FoodFacts up to date on sustainability data practices and reporting frameworks in Sweden, EU and globally. You will also have a client-facing role, acting as an advisor on sustainability topics, helping clients integrate FoodFacts data and tools within their strategic sustainability work.

Main responsibilities:

• Providing guidance and advice to FoodFacts’ clients on data use, indicators and reporting
• Staying up-to-date on sustainability data practices, food sector specifics and regulatory developments, including SBTI, CSRD, CSDD and EUDR as well as the ISO 14000 family to suggest future developments
• Operating data mappings and LCA analysis on ingredients and products, using the FoodFacts platform and other relevant software and tools (e.g. SimaPro, Ecoinvent)
• Working closely with the CTO to provide input for product development, enhanced data sourcing and algorithm improvements
• Liaise with FoodFacts sustainability network of experts
• Taking part in the data quality assessment of FoodFacts platform and its compliance and alignment with the sustainability frameworks that are used
• Acting as a project manager in client projects where data methodology is the main focus

You will report directly to the CEO and collaborate closely with the CTO, the product & tech team and the data quality team. The team is value driven, highly motivated to make a positive impact and highly skilled within the food sector, tech, sales, leadership and investments.

Qualifications and merits

We welcome all applicants and strive for diversity and equal opportunity through competence based recruiting practices. For a great role-fit, we are looking for a combination of the following qualifications, merits and personal traits.

Required qualifications:

• A relevant university degree (B.Sc. and/or M.Sc.) in sustainability, environmental science, engineering, industrial economics or equivalent
• Relevant working experience in a sustainability-focused role
• Extensive experience with LCA tools and with climate- and sustainability data to measure impacts
• Strong analytical skills, knowledge of Excel and presentation software such as Powerpoint / Google slides
• Working proficiency in English

Other merits:

• Strong familiarity with regulatory frameworks and relevant standards such as SBTi, CSRD, CSDDD and EUDR as well as the ISO 14000 family
• Project Management or consulting experience
• Experience from the food industry
• Experience in calculating Product Carbon Footprint
• Keen interest in health-related topics and nutrition
• Working proficiency in Swedish

Personal traits:
To thrive in this role you need to enjoy both working with data on a detailed level and being entrepreneurial in tackling challenges and identifying new opportunities. You are collaborative and work well both in a team and independently, with strong problem solving skills.

FoodFacts offer

• To join an impact and mission driven scale up at an early stage
• A dynamic and flexible working environment among other impact startups at Norrsken House, Stockholm
• A full time employment, starting as soon as possible upon agreement
• Occupational pension