LCA Scientist

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, but focusing on those in our Food Ingredients business such plant-based proteins, emulsifiers, core texturants, among others. Your role will focus on expanding our LCA capabilities and identifying opportunities and strategies for improvements, while communicating with customers and industry groups. In addition, you will provide support to identifying how IFF's Food Ingredients can reduce the impacts of customer formulated products.

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:

• Implement digitized LCA calculations for high volumes of products meeting Together for Sustainability methodological requirements for IFF plant-based proteins, emulsifiers, core texturants, and other food ingredients
• Complete cradle-to-grave LCAs for strategic IFF products capturing benefits of IFF products to customers and consumers in application.
• Identify footprint reduction opportunities at both a product and portfolio level and share with relevant internal and external stakeholders
• 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, IFF databases 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 IFF businesses and R&D
• Prepare and participate in customer presentations and dialogues related to LCA
• Participate in relevant external networks and associations

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering, science, or relevant education
• 5+ years of experience in chemical engineering, chemistry, food science, or relevant technical or sustainability role
• 3+ years' direct experience with life cycle assessment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Working knowledge of SimaPro Life cycle software (or GaBi)
• Working knowledge of Python programming language is preferred
• Excellent relationship building skills and ability to 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
• Demonstrated analytical and systematic skills

Preferred Experience:

• Master's degree in chemical or environmental engineering

This position will be at our office in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark just outside Copenhagen. You will join a growing team of LCA experts at this office and have regular business with colleagues, customers, or suppliers across Europe, the United States, and beyond. The team and office are internationally diverse with English being the primary work language. Other potential locations include Hilversum, the Netherlands, or Wilmington, DE - USA.

Flexible work options are available.

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. 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 an 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.

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