Job Description

Do you want to drive solid sustainability evidence on products to support sustainability-related claims and to implement sustainability activities in new product development? Do you want to be part of a high performing team? Do you want to join a promptly growing OMX C25 company recognized by e.g. the Financial Times for our sustainability effort?

Then this might be your defining moment. Apply today and join us in transforming Ambu’s portfolio by designing it for a circular economy.

Join our Sustainability team in Ambu’s global R&D department

At our headquarters in Ballerup, you will become part of our sustainability and biosafety function that is anchored in R&D. Our sustainability team have six years of track record to mature sustainability in the R&D organisation and have good results and structures in place for working with sustainability in our new product development. All the way from design strategy to changing things in production – latest when we were the first company in the world to introduce bioplastics in an endoscope.

The sustainability team sets the bar high and has the responsibility to drive actions to reduce environmental impact and increase circularity of our new product and packaging innovations. We are working across our different business areas and together with our innovation teams we actively seek out new technical opportunities to improve our solutions through tech tracks and new product development.

The recent years we have for instance worked with circular sourcing of bioplastics, improving product and packaging for a more recyclable design, supported and setting up take-back and recycling programs for medical devices.

We are a team that has a data-driven approach to making sustainability related design decisions and to address our biggest challenges head on and with this position we seek to build out our capabilities to use data to also document the benefits of the new solutions we are bringing to the market.

To be successful in our efforts, we are working closely with good colleagues from R&D, Corp ESG, Marketing and operations.

Build environmental evidence - and develop new sustainable products

In this role, you will mainly support Ambu's sustainability evidence agenda by completing lifecycle assessments (LCA) on Ambu’s new and existing products. You will also support Ambu’s new innovation projects with your sustainability expertise to ensure that sustainability is considered in product development from idea to patient.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Driving LCA and circularity-related documentation in enabling be transparent in reporting on sustainability and monitoring performance

• Creating impactful and trustworthy environmental communication in collaboration with marketing

• Supporting our innovation projects with sustainability-related activities and deliverables

• Implementing sustainability activities in new product development projects e.g. setting sustainability ambitions, support circular design, review products sustainability performance and create documentation for green claims

• Taking a data-driven approach to driving sustainability for design projects

• Support tech-tracks tasks within sustainability topics such as design for circularity and circular sourcing of e.g. bioplastics

Purpose-driven and analytical

Skills and experiences can be earned in many different ways, and we understand that the best fit for the role cannot be prescribed on paper. You are however likely to succeed in this position if you:

• You have knowledge of environmental impacts and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and you have interest in developing your related technical skills.
• You have an engineering background e.g. B.S./M.S./Ph.D. in Design and innovation Engineering, Sustainability Engineering or related discipline.
• You have affinity for performing technical analysis including modelling and data management.
• You can collect, process, manage and interpret data in a form that is understandable to audiences with varying levels of knowledge on sustainability.
• You're able to generate valuable insights from analysis, and the preparation of clear and compelling LCA reports and presentations of results.
• You have experience with one of the LCA software tools, e.g. SimaPro, GaBi, OpenLCA, etc.
• You are familiar with ISO 14040; ISO 14044; ISO 14067; ISO 14064 and GHG protocol for products and organizations.
• You preferably have 2-4 years of experience from sustainability consulting or being an environmental professional in a large corporate company.
• You have knowledge about materials, especially plastics, metals and electronics as well as general knowledge of production methods.
• You're motivated for teamwork and supporting a team

Join a process mature and global team

The Talent Attraction team will engage with applicants on an ongoing basis, hence we encourage you to not hesitate and apply! The deadline is Friday the 24th of July.

Interviews will equally be held on an ongoing basis. Questions? Reach out to Nicklas Christian Funk, Senior Sustainability Specialist at nifu@ambu.com and Annette Bitz, Head of Biosafety & Sustainability at anbi@ambu.com

Ambu – a visionary and international workplace where your efforts matter

Ambu is a company that expands rapidly and has ambitious growth targets. We meet these targets through interdisciplinary teamwork between motivated and highly skilled employees. Your contributions and efforts are crucial to our success and by joining us you will get the opportunity to work in an international head office with an informal working environment.

We offer great opportunities for personal development. Furthermore, we offer a wide range of professional, social and financial employee benefits in addition to exciting job challenges and continuous professional and personal development.