SUSTAINABILITY MANAGER (CLIMATE)

Sustainability
Written By Kumiko Aoki

SUST - Amsterdam (Hybrid)

At TRACT, we are building a more sustainable and resilient food and agriculture industry. Our mission? To remove the burden of data management and resolve the debate on methodology so companies can drive impact. With our SaaS platform, we empower organizations to focus their resources on making a real impact while driving positive change in the industry. 

 

About the Team 

We’re a diverse and passionate team of about 40, committed to creating a sustainable impact and technological innovation. We believe in the power of collaboration and leverage our collective expertise to tackle complex challenges and drive meaningful change. Our cultural heartbeat & business decisions are shaped by our core values: ‘Accept the challenge,’ ‘Commit to learn,’ ‘Authentic & accountable,’ ‘Make momentum,’ & ‘Simplify & ship.’ These ensure that every team member can thrive and make a difference.


About the Role

As Sustainability Manager – Climate, you will join TRACT’s sustainability team, driving industry alignment on sustainability metrics and methodologies across food and agricultural supply chains. You’ll lead the technical work to define and align actionable metrics and methodologies for carbon, ensuring they are insightful, practical, and trusted by industry stakeholders. You’ll also contribute to shaping broader approaches to sustainability data and methodology development, with a focus on climate-related topics.

 

You will engage directly with external stakeholders to facilitate alignment processes, while also working cross-functionally with product, engineering, and user research to bring these methodologies to life within TRACT’s SaaS platform.

 

You’ll report to the Director of Sustainability and work together on TRACT’s overall sustainability agenda.

You Are

You’re an early-career carbon expert with experience in the food and agriculture sector. You’ve calculated carbon footprints and have a strong command of the data, standards, emission factors, and lifecycle databases involved. While you want to apply your hard-earned knowledge, you're not looking to stay in a narrowly technical role. You’re eager to broaden your scope to other climate and sustainability topics, build new skills, and help connect data insights to the many business processes that influence emissions and broader sustainability outcomes.

 

You’re data-savvy. You believe data and technology are powerful enablers of decarbonisation. You’re energized by the creativity and pace of a startup environment, and you have some familiarity with how SaaS platforms operate and scale. While you bring expertise, you’re open-minded to learning from companies what motivates them and what they need to take climate action.

Key Responsibilities

Metrics and Methodology

  • Identify existing, widely used/aligned metrics that provide valuable insights into carbon and climate performance and risk.

  • Identify opportunities for methodology and metric alignment on Scope 3 carbon emissions, climate risk, climate mitigation/adaptation, etc. and facilitate technical working groups to reach industry alignment.

  • Assess the need for specialised consultants and as needed, coordinate their work to ensure successful delivery of project objectives.

  • Contribute to research, data analysis or/and alignment processes for other topics in TRACT’s Sustainability Framework.

  • Pair with product, engineering, and user research to translate metrics & methodologies into usable, credible, and valuable platform features.

Partnerships & Sector Engagement

  • Identify and help build partnerships, with an emphasis on partnership opportunities that unlock financing or other tangible value based on climate data.

  • Support sales, marketing, and customer success teams as the technical expert on carbon; participate in webinars and demos.

  • As needed, represent TRACT in industry platforms, events, and/or strategic sustainability meetings.

Strategy & upskilling the team

  • Work with the Director of Sustainability to maintain a sustainability framework, monitor sector trends, and advise internal teams on implications.

 

TRACT’s carbon footprint & sustainability reporting

  • Calculate TRACT’s own emissions, lead efforts to reduce them, and report on progress.

  • Track and ensure timely reporting of other agreed sustainability KPIs

Qualifications

  • Degree in Agricultural Science, Environmental Science, Sustainability, Environmental Engineering, or a related field with training in greenhouse gas accounting, agricultural emissions modelling, lifecycle assessment (LCA), or carbon management

  • Knowledge of the GHG Protocol, IPCC, relevant ISO standards, Science-Based Targets Initiative and other standards governing carbon accounting

  • Proficiency in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), including knowledge of Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) databases, software (SimaPro, OpenLCA, etc.) and specific methods like Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)

  • Strong communication skills: able to translate technical detail into big-picture insight and engage with both experts and non-experts

  • Strong facilitation skills: able to align diverse stakeholders on complex topics and navigating differing perspectives with clarity and trust

 

Experience

  • Calculating carbon emissions of food and agricultural supply chains, including with GHG modelling tools (e.g., Cool Farm Tool, COMET-Farm, EX-ACT, etc.)

  • Scoping, managing, and validating carbon calculators and LCA projects.

  • Conducting complex data analysis on agricultural and supply chain greenhouse gas emissions; familiar with data quality challenges and scoring

  • Developing, implementing, or supporting decarbonisation strategies in food and agricultural supply chains

  • Familiarity with climate risk modelling, regenerative agriculture principles and carbon reduction opportunities, carbon credit markets and MRV systems, diverse agricultural commodity supply chains

 

What We Offer 

  • A unique opportunity to work on a fast-growing platform that enables our customers to create a positive impact in Ag & Food sustainability

  • Full ownership and autonomy in your work, with encouragement for development beyond your area of expertise

  • Close collaboration in a team of +- 40 highly diverse, motivated, and talented colleagues

  • Competitive compensation package

  • Employee participation plan (SARs)

  • Company pension

  • 25 paid holidays + 2 diversity days + public holidays

  • Swapping 3 Dutch public holidays for other recognized festive days

  • Hybrid working: 3 days minimum in-office to foster company culture and high-impact collaboration

  • Commuting allowance: 0.23 cent per km (tax-free), capped at 20 km single commute

  • Remote working: 2 weeks per year

  • Laptop and home office equipment

  • Opportunities for learning and development

  • Above statutory leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & other life events

  • Frequent lunch & learns, including sharing our many different food cultures

  • Office located at walking distance from Sloterdijk Station in Amsterdam

 

Are you interested to ‘Accept the challenge’? Join us at TRACT to make a positive impact!

Kumiko Aoki
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