The Sustainability Lead for the Consumer Dairy Netherlands business plays a pivotal role in shaping, driving, and delivering FrieslandCampina’s sustainability strategy across all commercial activities in the Dutch market. This role connects strategy development with customer-driven execution, ensuring that FrieslandCampina’s sustainability ambitions translate into compelling propositions for consumers, retailers, and society.
Acting as a thought leader across the NL commercial organization, you guide brand teams, private label teams, and sales account teams in embedding sustainability into decision-making, communication, and business development. You are the central link between external expectations, internal strategy, and the commercial reality of bringing sustainable dairy propositions to market.
Key Responsibilities
- Bridge strategic exploration with commercial execution, helping internal teams understand future sustainability directions and ensure that customer needs are reflected in strategic plans.
- Translate sustainability ambitions into scalable, commercially viable solutions for retail customers.
- Lead complex sustainability projects, coordinating cross functional stakeholders across sustainability, supply chain, quality and commercial teams.
- Maintain close working relationships with NGOs, certification bodies and external experts and ensure alignment with market, customer and supply chain realities.
- Work with corporate teams and the cooperative to evaluate scenarios and make choices that drive the sustainability agenda and help both farmers and customers at the same time.
