Chief Sustainability Engineer

Chief Sustainability Engineer – to lead sustainability transformation in R&D

Coloplast is a global leader in medical devices and healthcare solutions, dedicated to making life easier for people with intimate healthcare needs. Here’s the challenge for you; We will never compromise on the quality of the solutions we offer our users. But we also have an obligation to reduce our environmental footprint. Our ambition is not only delivering superior user experience and clinical performance but also doing it in an environmentally sustainable manner. As an important step towards this objective, we are hiring a Chief Sustainability Engineer in R&D to lead the necessary transformation and help us deliver on our promise. 

As the Chief Sustainability Engineer, you will report to our Vice President of Product Design & Engineering and be part of a leadership team also counting Materials, Mechanical Engineering, Design, and Usability Engineering. This places you right at the creative heart of R&D and ensures your ability to influence the design of our products. 

Your role is not a formal people manager role but leadership is required to succeed. You do not have direct reports but you must lead this agenda through the organization, drawing on your experience in driving change based on an indirect mandate. As the change agent for one our most important and arguably most challenging change agendas in R&D, you will need to draw on your ability to collaborate across the organization to facilitate the establishment of a clear direction for how R&D will solve for sustainability in Coloplast. 

Vice President of Product Design & Engineering, Peter Herskind, says “This is leadership role that, in essence, is tasked with setting direction for all our employees in R&D who needs to solve for sustainability across diverse business areas such as Ostomy Care, Continence Care, and Wound & Skin Care. We all share the responsibility to solve for environmental sustainability. But we need someone to lead us in this effort.” 

As Chief Sustainability Engineer you will be leading Coloplast R&D efforts in delivering on our ambitions within Environmental Sustainability. As part of this, you will be responsible for:

Peter adds: “Every second, about 50 people around the world pick up and use a Coloplast product. If you are motivated by solving for significant unmet societal needs in a purpose-driven organization, then this is a good place to be spending your time.”

To be successful in this role, you should possess the following qualifications and attributes:

If you are passionate about environmental sustainability, have a strong technical background, and the leadership skills to drive significant change, we invite you to join our team at Coloplast and be a part of our commitment to our users and society as a whole.

Pursuing an ambitious growth agenda, Coloplast develops and markets products and services that make life easier for people with intimate healthcare needs. Employing about 14.000 people and with products available in more than 143 countries, we are one of the world´s leading medical device companies. We are constantly growing our business and always looking for new ways to move forward – we explore, learn and look for new ways of doing things.

Coloplast is committed to being an inclusive organization, where people bring their differences to work each day, fulfil their potential and have a strong sense of belonging because – and not despite – of their differences. We therefore encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of gender, age, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious belief or physical ability.