Hållbarhetsspecialist till Holmen Board and Paper

The position centers on operationalizing sustainability and compliance across Holmen Board and Paper. Day to day, you will coordinate customer requests concerning product environmental footprints, origin, and regulatory compliance. You will participate directly in client discussions and join customer visits across manufacturing mills in Sweden and the UK. Another primary mission involves data governance. You will collect, verify, and report environmental and sustainability figures to support regular assessments, customer audits, and official disclosures. You will track regulatory developments affecting paper and board products to translate emerging obligations into tangible operational tasks. Additionally, you will coordinate sustainability projects across multiple production facilities and internal departments such as sales, marketing, and logistics. This involves standardizing internal workflows and building consistent sustainability processes across sites.

Working in this role provides deep operational insight into the full forest product lifecycle, from fiber sourcing to industrial processing. You will gain extensive exposure to chemical and packaging regulatory frameworks across the European Union and the United Kingdom. Candidates can expect to build advanced competencies in environmental data auditing, carbon reporting, and product certification standards. Collaborating across both Swedish and British manufacturing assets will also develop your international coordination and stakeholder engagement abilities.

The ideal candidate holds at least a bachelor degree in environmental science, sustainable development, or a related field. Professional experience in an analytical, administrative, or project coordination role within an industrial or business setting is essential. Strong technical proficiency in Microsoft Excel and modern data tools is required to handle data compilation accurately. Fluency in both Swedish and English is necessary to navigate local plant operations and global customer interactions. A valid driver license is required due to travel across operational sites.

Highlight specific experiences where you translated complex environmental or regulatory information into clear answers for non-technical stakeholders, especially clients or sales teams. Concrete examples of managing datasets in Excel or working with production data will reinforce your credibility. Demonstrate your familiarity with industrial supply chains and packaging regulations. Note that the employer relies exclusively on the submitted resume and targeted application questions without a cover letter, so ensure your CV emphasizes practical achievements in data coordination and cross-functional project support.

The focus rests primarily on product sustainability, chemical compliance, and industrial environmental monitoring. This encompasses tracing raw materials back to certified forestry sources and tracking energy, water, and emissions data from pulp and paper mills. Additionally, the specialist deals with eco-design questions, packaging recyclability, and emerging European frameworks such as deforestation regulations and corporate reporting standards. The role ensures that product claims remain defensible through verified operational metrics.

Balancing analytical data validation with dynamic customer-facing requests can create competing priorities. Customer deadlines often require fast turnarounds, whereas gathering verified environmental figures from diverse industrial mills requires thoroughness and patience. Navigating nuanced differences between Swedish and UK mill operations, alongside shifting chemical and packaging regulations across jurisdictions, represents an ongoing challenge. Success depends on maintaining structured documentation while adapting to varied internal stakeholder working cultures.

A regular morning might start by answering detailed sustainability questionnaires from international packaging clients, consulting production data or mill technicians to verify chemical or fiber specifications. You might join an online meeting with the commercial team to prepare talking points for an upcoming customer audit. In the afternoon, you could turn to verifying greenhouse gas or water usage figures submitted by one of the plants, consolidating them into reporting systems. The day might conclude with planning an upcoming mill visit to Braviken, Hallstavik, or Iggesund to review local sustainability projects with operational teams.

Within a large publicly listed group like Holmen, this role offers visibility across operational, commercial, and executive functions. Delivering reliable support to commercial teams and mill leadership can lead to broader career advancement. Growth paths could include advancing into senior sustainability management, specialized regulatory affairs leadership, or commercial roles focused on sustainable product development. The cross-unit network built across Swedish and British mills serves as a solid foundation for enterprise-level career mobility.

Internal collaboration involves close contact with the Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs team, mill managers, environmental engineers, and quality specialists across production facilities in Sweden and Workington in the UK. You will also coordinate regularly with central sales, marketing, business development, and logistics personnel in Norrköping. Externally, you will interact with procurement officers, quality auditors, and sustainability directors from global corporate clients in publishing, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and food packaging, as well as trade association peers.