Senior Sustainability Manager

Are you passionate about sustainability and ready to make a meaningful impact? Join Arla Foods as Senior Sustainability Manager and help shape a positive future for dairy and the environment

How you will make an impact

In this role, you will elevate Arla Sweden's commercial sustainability agenda to a strategic level by commercialising opportunities with customers and key stakeholders. Reporting to the Managing Director of Arla Sweden, you will act as a sustainability business partner—bridging global ambitions with local plans, shaping our internal and external sustainability voice, developing scalable commercial concepts, and securing stakeholder commitment and deployment.

• Develop and drive Arla Sweden's Sustainability Plan and Roadmap, ensuring activities are aligned with targets across farm, transports, operations, and packaging.
• Create strategic partnerships on sustainability with our customers, identifying and leveraging best practices in commercialising sustainability.
• Create strategic direction for the FarmAhead customer sustainability program and secure buy-in and close collaboration with Retail and Foodservice customers together with the Customer Sustainability Manager.
• Act as an active spokesperson for Arla in diverse external and internal forums—represent Arla Sweden in industry platforms such as DLF, Livsmedelsföretagen, and Hållbar livsmedelskedja—share best practice, influence direction setting, and act as a catalyst for industry change.
• Support the creation of a strong sustainability agenda in Sweden to drive true leadership and industry inspiration.
• Support marketing and communication with robust sustainability facts and claims.
• Drive sustainability initiatives cross-functionally within the Swedish organization and act as a key link to the global sustainability team.

The role sits within Arla Sweden and collaborates closely with the global sustainability team. You will support internal stakeholders with initiatives, drive sustainability training and engagement across the organization, promote Arla's reputation for sustainability externally, and represent Arla in relevant external forums.

What will make you successful

You are passionate about commercializing sustainability and driven by results and ambition. With a strategic mindset, you demonstrate leadership and engage stakeholders at all levels to bring the right players on board. You excel as a project manager and change agent, creating commitment and followership across teams, stakeholders, and senior leaders. You have several years' experience in FMCG sustainability paired with solid commercial acumen. You bring expert-level competence in climate and carbon calculations, energy efficiency, packaging, environmental legislation, and management systems. Fluency in Swedish and English, written and verbal, is mandatory.

Thriving in a matrix across markets, you know how to get the best out of it. You are skilled in stakeholder management and comfortable with senior leaders, navigating complexity and aligning diverse interests. You may or may not have prior people leadership; if not, you are ready to grow into it. You communicate clearly, build trust quickly, and translate global ambitions into concrete local plans that deliver measurable impact.

What do we offer?

Arla invests significantly in sustainability. And with sustainability at the heart of our new organization and strategy, we are keen to step up our support of the Arla farmer owners and our supply chain helping them reach our ambitious sustainability and climate targets. Our customers are of course key in order for us to reach our goals, and now you get to come along on this exciting journey.

Arla Foods has collective agreements, and we always ensure to offer good and competitive working conditions. In addition to that, safety and working environment are our top priorities, which is why we, among other things, conduct random drug and alcohol tests.

Would you like to join us?

If this opportunity excites you, and you fulfil the required criteria for the role, don't wait, apply today We are screening on an ongoing basis and the role will be filled as soon as we find the right candidate. Welcome to contact Kleo Dela Cruz, Talent Acquisition Consultant for questions about the role,

Shape the Future of Dairy

Arla is a global leader in the dairy industry, committed to enabling good food choices that make life better, providing people with natural, sustainable nourishment, while taking care at every step to ensure Arla is a choice they can feel good about. If you are looking to shape the future with an ambitious global cooperative that truly cares about your growth, where everyone feels valued and empowered, and collaboration is the core of culture, Arla is a choice you can feel good about.