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Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!

Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader, we have over 16,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.

Position overview:

As a Sustainability Research Analyst you will support Ball’s Global Sustainability and Public Affairs team by delivering data-driven insights on packaging sustainability and circularity. The role focuses on sustainability data analysis, life cycle assessments, and reporting, translating complex information into clear, credible insights for internal stakeholders and external customers. This position contributes to Ball’s thought leadership in sustainable packaging and supports customer and regulatory-facing sustainability initiatives.

Key responsibilities include

• Conduct sustainability and circularity research, collecting, managing, and analyzing data from internal and external sources.
• Perform Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) and carbon footprint analyses to support internal tracking and customer requests.
• Maintain and develop global sustainability databases (e.g. recycling rates, carbon modelling inputs, regional cost structures).
• Support development of business intelligence tools and sustainability KPIs for internal and external reporting.
• Provide technical sustainability expertise and circularity support to regional teams and customers.
• Respond to customer and regional requests related to GHG emissions, product carbon footprints, LCA data, and sustainability metrics.
• Coordinate global and regional sustainability studies in collaboration with regional teams and business units.
• Support engagement with external stakeholders and industry bodies involved in sustainability standards, LCA, and circularity methodologies.
• Collaborate with Public Affairs & Sustainability on technical discussions to ensure aluminum packaging is appropriately represented.

What we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Sustainability, Environmental Science, Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in sustainability research, data analysis, or LCA-related roles.
• Strong knowledge of carbon footprinting (product, corporate), life cycle assessment methodologies, and circularity concepts.
• Experience working with sustainability datasets, databases, and analytical tools.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into clear insights and narratives.
• Comfortable working with multiple stakeholders in a global, matrix environment.
• Strong communication skills in English; ability to present technical information clearly to non-technical audiences.

Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation.

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles solutions that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.
Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.

No agencies please.