Sustainability Manager

As Sustainability Manager at Peikko Group, you will be responsible for identifying and implementing relevant sustainability trends and their process implementation in the Peikko Group with the aim of continuous improvement. In this role, you will work closely with our Peikko Group Management Team, Group Support teams, and Peikko units across over 30 countries.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Ownership in defining and implementing of business compulsory measures from national, European Union and International sustainability guidelines, programs, and plans.
• Project responsibility in the implementation of relevant legislation on sustainability reporting from Peikko, such as: CSRD and CBAM.
• Moderate the process of filtering the topics relevant to Peikko from the multitude of sustainability topics and agreeing their processing and implementation handling with the internal stakeholders.
• Contributing and process moderation to design Peikko products, supply chain and production processes more sustainable.
• Train employees from the global Peikko organisation on sustainability issues. Provide appropriate guidance and support to internal teams and external partners.

As for competencies, skills, and experience, we're looking for someone with:

• Excellent presentation and collaboration skills as well as hands-on approach and positive can-do attitude.
• Strong project and time management skills, the ability to work and develop matters independently.
• Knowledge of EU Environmental und Sustainability related legislation, such as CSRD, CBAM etc.
• At least two years of experience working in a similar role.
• Excellent spoken and written language capabilities in English.

You approach matters with an open mind and solution-oriented mindset. As a person you are a proactive, dynamic, and easily approachable team player. You enjoy working with multiple projects simultaneously in an ever-changing business environment.

You will report to Arno Diehl, QEHS Director for Peikko Group. The QEHS team is part of Group Operations team, supervised by Andrius Surantas, Vice President, Operations. This is a permanent position, preferably located in Lahti, Finland, and we are using a hybrid working model.

What are we offering?

Working at Peikko means being part of an exciting mix of a growing global company and a down-to-earth family business. Our employees value our forward-thinking approach, open corporate culture, and our multicultural environment that brings us the best practices from around the world.

We are a low hierarchy organization valuing independence, freedom, and efficiency, which means that by working with us you have a chance to make an impact. We promote work and life balance of our employees by providing hybrid working model and local benefits related to health care, sports, and culture. We also have an annual bonus system.

We value diversity as well as a growth mindset and offer our employees international career opportunities - it is all up to you! 

Interested?

If you want to know more about this role or our company, we are happy to answer – please get in touch with Arno Diehl, QEHS Director, via email [email protected] or by phone +49 171 7121198.

Please submit your application and CV to Arno Diehl by 22nd May 2024. We will process applications already during the application period, so please submit your application as soon as possible.