Are you driven by purpose and pragmatism? Do you have experience in building and executing on solid, progressive sustainability strategies, empowering businesses to advance their sustainability, while helping people around you grow and learn new things?

BeCause is looking for an experienced and ambitious Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) that can head up our sustainability department and drive our external sustainability offerings, our own footprint and team capabilities to the next level. This position requires you to take leadership in questioning, developing, and implementing a long-term framework, methodology and vision for sustainability at BeCause – while working tactically short-term to create and follow value iteratively as demonstrated and demanded by the market with few resources – i.e. the startup way.

The purpose of the CSO role is closely tied to our mission of making "sustainability = everyone's everyday business" and our belief that "communicating brand sustainability info - conveniently, credibly & consistently - in the market" will be crucial for humankind to solve the sustainability challenges of the world and for businesses to thrive.

At BeCause, we therefore offer companies a 1-stop-hub for their Brand Sustainability Information Management – to help overcome the currently suffering conversion- & retention-rates of sustainable-minded stakeholders due to inefficient coordination & ineffective sustainability communication across channels, systems, teams and frameworks – by Assembling & Optimizing their ‘sustainability CV’ a single place online and automatically Showcasing it where-ever and how-ever stakeholders need it.

In other words, we facilitate (connect) & foster (nudge) supply & demand for sustainability in the everyday market. We believe this will ultimately create exponentially more systematic impact value than can otherwise be achieved by any one actor single-handedly. The ambition is to scale this impact to the whole world through digitalization and automation of these brand sustainability management capabilities. Nonetheless, such innovation must come from human knowledge, invention and, initially also, hand-held delivery. The question now is whether you would like to be that innovative human being?

As our Chief Sustainability Officer, you will be responsible for:

• Managing an (initially small) team of sustainability consultants and analysts – to help you deliver on your following responsibilities – by virtue of:

  • Planning

  • Education

  • Delegation

  • Supervision

  • Care-taking

• Shaping and modeling our Brand Sustainability Hub platform framework, so it best can:

  • Assemble the right information for businesses.

  • Showcase the information right for business stakeholders.

  • Optimize the information to the right performance for the business.

• Shaping and delivering our “sustainability capability as a service” offerings to our clients, including consultancy services e.g:

  • Strategy review and recommendations.

  • Strategy development.

  • Reporting (Aka. Non-financial, CSR, CR, Sustainability, ESG, GRI reports, Code of conduct, Code of ethics, Supplier code of conduct, etc.).

  • Sustainability solution-provider matchmaking.

• Refining our own internal sustainability so we “practice what we preach” – hereunder:

  • Directing the important sustainability agenda, policies and projects including setting and achieving climate and ESG targets as well as delivering progress, and developing new strategic priorities based on materiality assessment.

  • Collaborating closely with the businesses and operations to ensure achievement of targets and integration of sustainability into business operations.

  • Developing roadmap to realize goals and targets; implementing a suite of appropriate business relevant internal and external KPIs to measure and report on progress.

  • Educate and share knowledge on sustainability or ESG agendas within the business and externally.

• Producing whitepapers and knowledge tools for our business community – in conjunction with the marketing department.

• Source, develop and lead key sustainability projects, as well as bring continuous improvement in all areas of responsibility

Would you like to play a key part in creating and scaling the future of sustainability in business? Then read on.

Desired Background:

• Academic background in Sustainability, CSR, Environmental Science or related discipline.

• +5 years of professional experience in corporate sustainability, CSR/CR and ESG strategy from large companies and/or management consulting as well as great management skills.

• Solid strategic toolbox, business insight and stakeholder engagement skills including the ability to influence and communicate at all levels.

• In-depth knowledge and experience with the various frameworks and guidelines we work with (i.e. UN SDG, UN GC, ESG, GRI, PRI, , EU SFDR, EU NFRD/CSRD, Code of conduct, Code of ethics, Supplier code of conduct, etc.).

• Knowledge and preferably experience with sustainability reporting.

• Proven previous experience in handling large and complex projects as well as ability to engage, motivate, develop and mentor the highly skilled professionals in your team.

• Skills in circular economy initiatives, knowledge of strategic sourcing processes in procurement and thorough insights in ESG reporting.

• Fluent in English (preferably also in Danish) and you are a team player who can build relationships and collaborate with people from across the business.

• Knowledge and preferably experience with startups, digital platform business, agile project management, and Design Thinking.

• Your management style is characterized as openly communicating, structured, strategic, forward-thinking, collective (rather than individual or hierarchical), entrusting, demanding, and rewarding.

What we offer:

• A company which already aims to change the world toward “sustainability = everyone’s everyday business” and to lead by example – e.g. as already demonstrated with carbon negative, inclusive and responsible practices.

• Impact! On both the world, the company, and your own role.

• A company in high growth in terms of partners, investments, platform capabilities and of course customers.

• Employee stock option program as part of the compensation package.

• A flat hierarchy and an entrepreneurial organization with high ambitions, but also flexibility.

• High focus on development and access to a network of sustainability-focused business partners, advisors, and professionals

• An international and exciting working environment with a team of +12 people and colleagues from more than 9 different nationalities

If this sounds like you, we would like to hear from you. Before you do, here are some tips. We would like to know who you are and the work you are proud of. So please share your resume, LinkedIn, or anything else you find relevant. No cover letter or lengthy essay needed. We will get to know you through some questions in our application form.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and encourage anyone to apply for the position, regardless of national origin, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetics, disability, or age.

Start date: Winter 2021-2022

Work location: Emil Holms Kanal 14, Copenhagen S (with a partially remote work possibility)

Contact person: Frederik Rubens Steensgaard, CEO