Project Manager Supply Chain

Jacob Madsen

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Chicago, IL 60613

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Environmental Resources Management (ERM)

Senior Project Manager Sustainability, Energy and Climate Change

Chicago, IL

August 2008 - present

Senior Consultant Waste Management and Producer Responsibility

Oxford, UK

January 2006 - August 2008

Business Development Manager/Project Manager

. Manager of the Supply Chain Sustainability, Life Cycle Assessment

(LCA) and Carbon Footprinting (CF) practice of ERM's Global

Sustainability and Climate Change team.

. Responsible for developing ERM's LCA, GHG and CF business in North and

South America.

. Managed and Directed Supply Chain Sustainability projects using LCA

ranging from simple streamlined to full ISO compatible assessments ($5-

$500K), delivering projects on time, on budget and with profit.

. Project Manager on several supply chain sustainability assessments

quantifying and identifying environmental and social hotspots (GHG,

Energy, Water, Waste etc), improvement potentials and process

optimizations. The projects provided rigorous scientific evidence for

corporate sustainability strategies, internal and external

communication, CSR/GRI reporting or sustainability rankings e.g. the

Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

. Successfully built and maintained client relationships focusing on

proactive project management and value adding.

. Engaged relevant stakeholders (from C-suite to NGOs) throughout the

value chain (which is an essential part of each successful supply

chain sustainability project)

. Consistently won, managed and delivered complex and diverse projects

including

. Technical Manager on an Economic and Environmental assessment of

the European Investment Bank's loan portfolio for renewable

energy projects

. Project Manager on an LCA saving a client approximately

$200,000,000

. Project Manager on several life cycle management/sustainability

projects for CSR reporting, competitive positioning/marketing.

. Project Manager on sustainability projects for evidence based

environmental and procurement policies

. Project Manager on several carbon footprinting projects for

labeling of products for Tesco, UK

. Developed the Planet Positive Protocol Carbon Footprinting

Standard and technical reviewer of the Carbon Trust's PAS 2050

method for carbon footprinting.

Technical Director

. ERM's subject matter expert on LCA and CF.

. Technical Director on several of ERM's high profile sustainability

projects for clients in the Finance sector, Building and Construction

sector, Food and Drinks sector, Pulp and Paper sector, Electronics

sector, Clothing and Textile sector, Retail sector, etc.

. Responsible for the technical content of client deliverables i.e.

scientifically robust, representative, consistent with standards etc.

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. Member of the Technical Committee of the Planet Positive Protocol, a

carbon footprint standard and label developed by ERM and DCarbon8.

Communication and Training

. Proactive communication with clients on project progress

. Project deliveries including simple or detailed reports and convincing

presentations

. External lecturer at Northwestern University, Chicago and Illinois

Institute of Technology, Chicago

. Presenter and session chair at numerous Supply Chain Sustainability,

LCA and CF conferences and workshops

. Internal Sustainability, LCA and CF training of partners and

consultants

. External Sustainability, LCA and CF workshops in Europe, US and Asia.

Team Management

. Successfully grew ERM's LCA practice in the US from 0 to 11

practitioners including 3 partners and 8 consultants over a period of

2 years.

. Team management including responsibility of the professional

development of 4 junior consultants

PRe Consultants

LCA Specialist

Amersfoort, the Netherlands

December 2001 - January 2006

. Project Manager and Project Consultant on several sustainability

projects.

. Developed and conducted LCA training using the SimaPro LCA tool.

. Participated in research developing methods to measure sustainability

e.g. Ecoindicator 99, Environmental Input/Output Analysis, Life Cycle

Costing etc.

. Member of working groups under the UNEP Life Cycle Initiative

Aalborg University

Research Assistant

Aalborg, Denmark

February 2001 - December 2001

. Conducted LCA research for Professor Per Christensen, mainly

sustainability of food products

. Supervisor for students in environmental management.

EDUCATION

Aalborg University, Denmark

Master of Science (MSc) in environmental engineering

February 2001

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Fluent in English, Danish, German and Dutch

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

Proficient in various PC applications including MS Office; International

expert in SimaPro LCA software

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