• Job Description

  Req#: 14975

  10/07/2025

  QEHS & Sustainability

  DNK-Randers, Danish Crown Vej

  Senior Sustainability Farming Specialist

  At Danish Crown, we are challenging ourselves and taking the lead in finding sustainable solutions. As an important part of this, we are looking for a Senior Sustainability Farming Specialist, for a newly established position, who can develop and implement our ambitious approach to sustainable farming in Danish Crown.

  
  Drive and develop our Farming knowledge across the business

  Overall, you will be a part of Danish Crown, Group Sustainability and more specifically your role will be in the Sustainable Farming team. The team is responsible of developing and implementing our sustainability strategy towards more than 23.000 farmers in Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Poland along with the supplier and owner services in the countries.

  Your main purpose and responsibility in the newly position will be to drive and implement our sustainability strategy within climate. You will take the lead in continuously developing and improving our sustainable farming climate standards, processes and metrics to build strong transparency and support for strategic decision-making across business units. This means that you will manage and ensure the quality and integrity of our Farming Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) model and climate footprint calculations that covers multiple sources throughout our value chain from farm to slaughterhouse. To succeed in this role, you will need to have a close daily corporation with farmers, colleagues and external stakeholders.

  Your main tasks will include:

  • Develop and improve our LCA farming model with focus on climate technologies, industry standards, background data and other metrics
  • Secure that our LCA model is always updated with the newest scientific knowledge and principles.
  • Develop and improve our foundation of farm data together with internal and external partners (e.g. universities)
  • Develop and improve our incentive model towards farmers together with internal stakeholders
  • Participate, manage and ensure the quality of farming R&D projects together with external partners and identify new R&D projects together with our business units and customers.
  • Document and follow up on the different Sustainable Farming initiatives whilst reporting on progress and drafting presentations for decision forums e.g. boards or the like.
  • Calculate and report farm gate emissions across animal species and countries in Danish Crown.
  • Sensitivity analysis of various emission mitigating initiatives at farm level (e.g. technologies, production methods etc.).
    

  Approximately 15 travel days must be expected per year. Workplace is Danish Crown HQ in Randers.

  Strong stakeholder management and passion for sustainable farming

  We imagine that you hold a relevant education at bachelor or master level within animal sciences, agronomy, life sciences, agrobiology or similar. You have experience as consultant, from advisory service or as sustainability or animal science specialist. Knowledge about LCA is an advance.

  You possess excellent project management skills including monitoring, following up, evaluation, reporting as well as contract and stakeholder management. You master English at negotiating level.

  As a person you are outgoing, service-minded and respected for your professional skills. Equally important you are an exceptional networker, communicator and role model who motivates, inspires your stakeholders, departments, and Danish Crown.

  Appetite for more?
  Please do not hesitate to contact Director, Sustainable Farming, Group Sustainability, Gustaf Bock at (+45) 40 30 17 57.

  Accession as soon as possible and preferably no later than August 12, 2025.

  Please send your CV and resumé as soon as possible, as we review all candidates on an ongoing basis and reserve the right to stop the search once we’ve found the right candidate.

  We are a food company owned by Danish farmers supplying high-quality food to customers and consumers all over the world. From butchers to business developers, we’re more than 23,000 colleagues, all committed to lowering our carbon footprint and becoming climate neutral by 2050, for better food and a brighter future.

• About the company

  Together, we are creating a more sustainable future for food.

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