Group Sustainability Manager, Value chain & Strategy

Axereal; Antwerpen; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Boortmalt is seeking a Group Sustainability Manager to own the data, methodology and insights behind its climate and environmental commitments. You will report to the CSO and collaborate with teams from farms to production plants, turning complex data into clear performance signals.

This hands-on role leads GHG inventories (Scopes 1-3 including FLAG), LSRS transition, and product footprints, while ensuring robust governance, external reporting, and continuous improvement across a 25-plant global

Qualifications

• Master's degree in engineering, environmental science, agronomy or related quantitative field.
• Typically 3–5 years' experience building corporate GHG inventories under the GHG Protocol.
• Advanced Excel or database skills with large datasets.
• Fluent English; French or Dutch is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the corporate GHG inventory (Scopes 1-3) and LSRS transition.
• Define emission factors, boundaries, baselines, and recalculation rules.
• Maintain data architecture for energy, GHG, water, and waste.
• Build dashboards and insights for leadership.
• Provide assurance evidence and audit trails for environmental metrics.
• Calculate product carbon footprints and support low-carbon claims.
• Lead water risk assessment across sites using WRI Aqueduct.
• Take on new projects and KPIs as requirements evolve.

Skills

Data analysis

Advanced Excel

Methodology development

Stakeholder communication

Fluent English

Education

Master's degree in engineering, environmental science, agronomy, data analytics or related quantitative field

Tools

Power BI

WRI Aqueduct

LCA tools

Job description

Group Sustainability Manager, Value chain & Strategy

Group Sustainability Manager

Focus: Performance, Data & Methodology

Boortmalt is looking for a hands‑on sustainability performance expert to own the numbers behind our climate and environmental commitments. Boortmalt has SBTi-approved targets, sustainability‑linked financing and externally assured reporting across our 25 plants globally. We report in line with CSRD/ESRS and the GHG Protocol, and disclose through CDP Climate and Water and EcoVadis. Our largest emissions sit in agricultural supply chains (Scope 1-3 FLAG: forest, land and agriculture), and we are moving our inventory to align with the GHG Protocol Land Sector and Removals Standard (LSRS).

Why this role matters

You are Boortmalt's technical anchor for sustainability data and methodology. You own how our performance is calculated, whether it is robust, and what it tells us. You report to the Chief Sustainability Officer and lead the data, methodology and insight behind our sustainability performance and disclosures. You work alongside a fellow Group Sustainability Manager, who leads disclosure, ratings and claims governance, and partner with teams across the business, from farms to production plants to customers.

What you will do

• GHG and FLAG inventory: Own the corporate GHG inventory (Scopes 1-3, including FLAG). Lead the LSRS transition with our external methodology partner, steering and challenging consultants so that ownership and capability stay in-house.
• Methodology and KPIs: Define and document emission factors, boundaries, baselines and recalculation rules. Calculate SBTi and sustainability-linked loan KPIs, and prepare methodology choices for decision by the CSO. Provide the baselines and scenario analysis behind our net-zero target.
• Data backbone: Maintain and improve the data architecture for energy, GHG, water and waste. Set validation, controls and audit trails, working with data owners in the Agriculture and Energy Transition teams, Operations, Procurement, Finance and IT. Ensure that farmer and cooperative programme data, collected by the Agriculture team, continuously meets our inventory and claims requirements.
• Performance insight: Build dashboards and analysis that explain what drives results, including the impact of site decarbonisation projects, and give concise recommendations to leadership.
• Assurance evidence: Own the technical evidence and audit trail for environmental metrics.
• Product footprints and claims evidence: Calculate product carbon footprints and define evidence requirements for low-carbon and regenerative agriculture claims, so Key Account Managers can share them with confidence.
• Water and nature: Lead the water risk assessment across sites and supply base using WRI Aqueduct, drawing on site and project knowledge from water engineering.
• Evolving agenda: Take on new projects, metrics and KPIs as our sustainability journey and external requirements evolve, and share workload with your fellow Group Sustainability Manager when priorities peak.

Master we are looking for ?

Who we are looking for

Must have:

• Master's degree in engineering, environmental science, agronomy, data analytics or a related quantitative field
• Typically 3-5 years' experience, including hands‑on work building corporate GHG inventories under the GHG Protocol: you have done the calculations yourself
• Advanced Excel or database skills; comfort with large datasets, reconciliation and validation
• Sound methodological judgement, and the ability to give a clear recommendation and hold a technical position when challenged
• A learning, team-first mindset: you actively build expertise in new areas such as land-sector accounting, adapt to shifting priorities and step in to support colleagues
• Fluent English; French or Dutch is a strong plus

Nice to have, or eager to learn:

• FLAG, LSRS or agricultural supply chain data
• LCA or product carbon foot printing
• ESG/MRV platforms, Power BI, water risk tools such as WRI Aqueduct
• Consulting or assurance experience

Masters of Malt's treasure

What makes this role unique

High ownership of methodology and data in a lean team, direct work with the CSO, and the chance to build Boortmalt's land-sector accounting as the new standard takes effect.

At Boortmalt, we aim to be a great employer, valuing flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, and wellbeing.

Our values guide us every day:

• Strive – we challenge ourselves to be the best
• Care – we respect people, partners and planet
• Inspire – we drive sustainable performance through innovation
• Explore – we embrace new ideas and challenge the status quo

The company

BOORTMALT is a global malting company with a 3 million tonnes production capacity. The group is present on 5 continents with 27 malting plants. Boortmalt's expertise is widely acknowledged by brewers, distillers, and food industries, who rely on the supply of top-quality barley malts.

The Boortmalt Group is a fully owned subsidiary of the agricultural and agribusiness cooperative Axereal. Our relationship with Axereal, Europe's largest grain cooperative, ensures us access to high-quality barley year-round.

Axereal: 1st certified agricultural and food cooperative group.