EKS Sustainability Project Analyst

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Your Role:

Elanco Animal Health is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Sustainability Project Analyst with a strong focus on ruminant operations to join our growing team. This critical role will contribute to both innovation/development of new programs and the operation of commercialized livestock sustainability programs. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of agricultural sustainability, carbon markets, and emissions quantification and measurement strategies combined with an understanding of dairy and beef production systems, nutritional principles. This role will require the candidate to able to translate their production system knowledge into program requirements (methodological, IT, and operational) as well as directly supporting producers in meeting those program requirements once operationalized. This role requires a proactive individual who can work independently and collaboratively to address complex challenges, contribute to strategic decision-making, and support the global expansion of our sustainability initiatives.

Your Responsibilities:

• Innovation (50%): Support the technical design and development of measurement, quantification, monitoring, reporting and verification components of new ruminant sustainability programs.
  • Quantification, Measurement, and Monitoring: Collaborate with Technical Consulting teams to build and maintain credible emissions quantification approaches. Build quantification tools for use in internal analysis. Support writing and documentation of methodologies and SOPs as needed. Develop and refine data models to assess environmental impacts and identify opportunities for improvement. Evaluate and recommend software solutions to optimize data integration and analysis.
  • Feed & Feed Ingredient Emissions Quantification: Provide recommendations and expertise related to feed ingredient emissions factors, databases, and lifecycle analyses. Provide recommendations for incorporation into quantification approaches. Support Operations team in mapping feed ingredients and developing related SOPs.
  • Market Landscape: Maintain knowledge and relationship with existing quantification approaches and models used in livestock systems (FARM ES, CoolFarm Tool). Monitor and assess updates to key reference / source material and recommend update of tools as appropriate (e.g. IPCC, EPA, USDA, IDF, GRSB, relevant methodologies & industry guidance). Evaluate new tools and complementary software systems.
  • Monitoring and Reporting: Leverage operational and scientific knowledge to contribute to requirements gathering and build out of monitoring and reporting platform. Partner with UpLook operations team to build requirements and feature roadmaps.
  • Project Management: Support project management, develop project plans as needed.
  • Strategic Decision Making: Contribute technical expertise to key decisions regarding process scalability, sustainability data utilization, and overall sustainability strategy. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to prioritize initiatives across species and regions.
  • Global Collaboration: Support the global expansion of sustainability initiatives by adapting data analysis and modeling approaches to diverse production systems and regulatory environments. Contribute to the development of training materials and resources for international stakeholders. Provide training and deployment support of UpLook to technical teams in new geographies.
• Operations (50%): Support successful implementation of commercialized sustainability programs. Work directly with customers to solve complex data and technical challenges.
  • Customer and Internal Team Enablement: Gather customer insights to continuously improve tools and resources. Develop and deliver training programs to customers and internal teams on utilizing s