The role 

The Site Selection & Colocation Manager is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and securing optimal locations for new data center developments and colocation expansions. This role combines real estate strategy, technical due diligence, market analysis, and vendor management to support the company’s global data center growth. The manager will collaborate closely with engineering, construction, finance, legal, and network planning teams to ensure that selected sites meet operational, technical, and business requirements.

You’re welcome to work in our office in Amsterdam or Remote - United States.

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Lead the end-to-end site selection process for new data center facilities.
• Conduct market assessments, including power availability, fiber connectivity, land suitability, regulatory requirements, and risk factors.
• Build and maintain market intelligence on emerging data center regions, supply trends, energy markets, and colocation pricing.
• Evaluate and shortlist candidate sites through comparative analysis, scoring models, and feasibility studies.

• Coordinate environmental, geotechnical, hydrological, and seismic assessments.
• Assess infrastructure availability (power, water, fiber) and future scalability.
• Evaluate construction constraints, climate conditions, logistics access, and permitting feasibility.
• Work with engineering teams to ensure sites meet mechanical, electrical, and network resilience requirements.

• Identify colocation providers and evaluate facilities based on technical specifications, SLA requirements, and cost structure.
• Lead RFPs, negotiations, and contract execution with colocation and connectivity partners.
• Manage colocation lifecycle: renewals, expansions, migrations, and optimization of space/power allocations.
• Monitor vendor performance against SLA, uptime, compliance, and efficiency metrics.

• Work with data center design and construction teams to validate site feasibility and development timelines.
• Partner with legal on contract terms, property acquisition, lease terms, and regulatory compliance.
• Support finance with CapEx/OpEx modeling, ROI calculations, and business case development.
• Coordinate with public authorities, utilities, and permitting agencies as needed.

• Evaluate risks related to natural hazards, geopolitical risk, security, environmental constraints, and utility reliability.
• Ensure compliance with local regulations, zoning laws, and corporate standards.
• Maintain documentation for audits, reporting, and internal approvals.

We expect you to have: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Real Estate, Engineering, Business, Geography, or related field.
• 5–8+ years of experience in site selection, real estate development, colocation management, or data center infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of data center power, cooling, and network requirements.
• Experience in evaluating colocation providers and negotiating leases/SLAs.
• Analytical skills in market research, cost modeling, and risk assessment.
• Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects across regions.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

It will be an added bonus if you have: 

• Experience with hyperscale or large-scale data center development.
• Knowledge of utility procurement (power, water), renewable energy markets, and substation planning.
• Familiarity with geospatial tools (GIS), risk modeling, or data center capacity planning.
• Understanding of permitting processes and environmental regulations.

Your Role in Our Story: 

This is a full-time role for an experienced manager in clean energy regulation, responsible for ensuring that ACT can develop innovative new market-based products, suitable for the region, that enable end-to-end, sustainable decarbonization. Reporting to the Global Director, R&D and Sustainability. The role is based in Amsterdam, and requires occasional travel, both within Europe and to other destinations. In essence, your role involves:

• Develop and deliver a complex portfolio of innovative products for EMEA that is informed by regional and national regulatory developments and sustainability standards and guidance. The emphasis is on Europe.
• Manage and develop of a team of experts in regulation and environmental product development that is focused on the EMEA region.
• Develop and share regulatory intelligence and deep technical understanding of supply/demand fundamentals of carbon and renewable energy markets with internal and external stakeholders.
• Facilitate transactions, support commercial teams, and provide input into industry and regulatory processes.
• Collaborate globally on product development with other regional R&D teams, and other teams within ACT as appropriate.
• Represent ACT at eg, trade association meetings, exhibitions, and conferences.

Your Expertise, Our Shared Success: 

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates with the following qualifications and attributes: 

• 10+ years’ work experience that provides a deep understanding of clean energy regulation markets in the region – renewable energy, fuels, and carbon markets.
• High commercial acumen with a strong track record of using regulations to inform the development of new products.
• Proven ability to develop, motivate, and nurture a talented team of specialists
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• A commercial and creative mindset, strong collaboration skills
• Fluency in English is expected; additional fluency in French, German, or Italian is helpful.
• University educated, ideally with post-graduate qualification having a strong analytical component

If you meet these criteria and are ready to contribute your expertise to a dynamic and challenging environment, we encourage you to apply.

Who are we?

Our world needs solutions, and we need them fast. A growing population and increasing living standards drive our energy and material consumption. To keep global warming at bay, we need to reduce our carbon footprint substantially and, in fact, transition towards a climate-neutral economy.

Avantium’s Vision: We believe in a fossil-free world; let’s go!

We create disruptive renewable process technologies to facilitate sustainability change and bring them to the world with partners to accelerate the transition towards renewable and circular business.

The role

Avantium is looking for a Technologist Analytics to support the development of PEF and FDCA.

The Technologists analytic provide the analytical solution for process, product and application development within Renewable Polymers (RNP) business unit. In the Technology team there is an open position for a Technologist AnalyticsThe Technologists analytic are currently part of the Technology team with a specific expertise on a  broad range of analytics, from standard methods to sophisticated techniques. They works closely together with project teams, and the monomer and polymer & application development teams. They also work closely with their counterparts in the Flagship Plant (in Delfzijl) and the Pilot Plant (in Geleen).

How can you contribute?

The Technologist Analytics position within Renewable Polymers Business Unit (RNP) will contribute to process and product development projects by executing sample preparations and performing analyses based on various analytical techniques with a focus towards Polymer characterization and quality assessment. The Technologist Analytics will report into the Teamleader Technology  of RNP.

We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague who will take the following responsibilities:

• Leading the efforts on polymer analytics (GPC, CEG, IV, DSC, TGA, Rheometry,  Karl Fischer Coulometric, UV-VIS, NMR & titrations), including data processing, validation, development of new procedures and improvement of existing, safety assessments, documentation and reporting of analytical results.
• Subject matter expert on GPC measurements. Take care of system/measurements, proposals for improvement and trouble shooting.
• Preferably has experience in polymer characterization and quality control methodologies.
• Experience on data/analytics from chromatographic analysis like (U)HPLC and GC is a nice to have.
• Support Monomer and P&AD projects by sample preparations and dilutions.
• Hands-on troubleshooting and maintenance on equipment.
• Likes to work in the lab and flexible towards activities outside the primary responsibilities by assisting lab activities of other teams.
• Communicate proactively with your colleagues, project and team leaders, including planning, managing timelines and reporting.

What will you bring?

To be successful in our team you:

• Actively contribute to the safety in our laboratory, adhere to our Health & Safety regulations.
• Bring a HLO or master degree in Analytical Chemistry with (few) years of experience.
• Experience on performing polymer analytics, GPC, IV, NMR.
• Have hands-on experience in analytical lab work activities like sample preparations, titrations, KF, UV analysis and data processing of chromatographic analysis.
• Are able to work independently as well as in a team.
• Are a team player, results oriented, flexible and pragmatic self-starter.
• Bring good communication and reporting skills in English.

What do we offer?

Avantium is a small company with a big impact. Whilst contributing to a circular economy, we offer you a unique chance to learn a lot: in science, business and management, leading people and operations, market strategies, quality and last but not least safety. Learning paths can be steep, not depending on predefined career paths and development tracks. You are in the lead of your career, what you bring to the table will be noticed and taking initiative is rewarded and recognized. We have an informal result-oriented culture, a flat organization and we recognize and celebrate the many cultures that we represent. On top of that we offer good primary and secondary benefits. 

Join us and our partners in transitioning to a fossil-free world, transforming their sustainability pledges into actionable proof points!

Interested? 

Let us know by applying through the website. At Avantium, we are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and strive to create a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Your Role in Our Story

In essence, your role involves:

• Owning and executing CerQlar’s partner strategy to expand market reach and accelerate revenue growth through a scalable partner ecosystem.
• Identifying, recruiting, and onboarding high-value partners, building structured enablement frameworks to accelerate time-to-first-deal and joint success.
• Designing and delivering partner programs that drive co-selling, co-marketing, and integration opportunities, contributing directly to pipeline and ARR growth.
• Building and maintaining a strong partner-driven pipeline, tracking performance and ensuring accurate CRM visibility and forecasting.
• Leading strategic partner relationships, managing performance, and refining incentive models to drive sustained engagement and commercial outcomes.
• Running joint business reviews (QBRs) and continuously improving partner performance, pipeline contribution, and deal velocity.
• Collaborating cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Customer Success to align go-to-market efforts and ensure seamless execution of partner-led opportunities.
• Developing compelling joint value propositions with partners and positioning CerQlar as the digital infrastructure for clean energy data.
• Leveraging data and insights to optimize partner strategy, improve program scalability, and refine ecosystem performance.
• Staying informed on market trends, partner landscape developments, and sustainability/energy ecosystem dynamics to continuously evolve the partner approach.

Your Expertise

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates with the following qualifications and attributes:

• 3+ years of experience in SaaS partnerships, channel management, or ecosystem growth roles.
• Proven track record of building and scaling partner programs that generate sourced or influenced revenue.
• Strong understanding of SaaS go-to-market models and key metrics such as pipeline generation, attribution, and CAC impact.
• Excellent relationship management, communication, and negotiation skills, with the ability to engage both commercial and technical stakeholders.
• Experience working with CRM systems and partner management tools (e.g., HubSpot, Salesforce).
• Data-driven mindset with the ability to translate insights into actionable partner strategies.
• Self-starter with strong ownership, able to operate independently in a fast-paced, scale-up environment.
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Business, Marketing, Economics, or a related field.
• Fluency in English; additional European languages are a plus.
• Interest or experience in renewable energy, sustainability, or ESG-related markets is a strong advantage.

Are you driven by financial success and rewarding career progression?

Are you motivated by opportunities to continuously self-improve?

Are you someone who could describe yourself as confident, outgoing and ambitious?

We are expanding our successful team at Amoria Bond and are looking to speak with ambitious individuals!

A career with us can significantly increase your earnings, progress your career through multiple promotions a year and fast track you to achieving your goals...

Who are Amoria Bond?

Amoria Bond is an award-winning international recruitment firm providing specialist staffing and consultancy services within the Advanced Engineering and Renewable Energy sectors. We operate in over 40 countries and have expanded our offices by over 45% in Amsterdam, Manchester, Cologne, Singapore and Dallas in under 12 months.

The markets we specialise in are extremely lucrative, high value sectors - meaning a higher earning potential for you!

What will I be doing?

• Making business development calls to prospective and existing clients to win projects to work on
• Headhunting candidates to place onto your clients' projects
• Building and maintaining relationships
• Writing job adverts, building your personal brand and creating social media content to attract top talent
• Working the full recruitment lifecycle from qualification calls, booking in interviews and delivering offers
• Meeting your clients face-to-face on a regular basis, with current employees travelling to all across Europe to meet their clients!

What do I need?

• You live in or around Amsterdam
• You speak German or Dutch and can communicate well in English
• You have experience in sales and communication
• Above-average motivation, ambition, proactivity and determination
• Ideally, you have already worked in B2B sales or in similar positions
• You are open to new challenges and want to utilise your sales experience in a dynamic and exciting industry

What's in it for you?

• Intensive onboarding by our L&D department
• Structured 10-step progression plan with promotion opportunities from Trainee to Director
• Attractive incentives and regular team events such as international sales trips (Dubai, NYC, Skiing), monthly lunch clubs and Early Finish Fridays.
• Flat hierarchies, open feedback culture and international spirit.
• Attractive earning opportunities with the best bonus system on the market.
• Modern office in the centre of Amsterdam Central!
• Company laptop from day one, company mobile phone from Senior Consultant rank.

Amoria Bond as an employer is committed to diversity and equality. We confirm that we welcome all applications from candidates regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, disability, age or experience.

Are you driven by financial success and rewarding career progression?

Are you motivated by opportunities to continuously self-improve?

Are you someone who could describe yourself as confident, outgoing and ambitious?

We are expanding our successful team at Amoria Bond and are looking to speak with ambitious individuals!

A career with us can significantly increase your earnings, progress your career through multiple promotions a year and fast track you to achieving your goals...

Who are Amoria Bond?

Amoria Bond is an award-winning international recruitment firm providing specialist staffing and consultancy services within the Advanced Engineering, Renewable Energy, IT, and Life Sciences sectors. We operate in over 40 countries and have expanded our offices by over 45% in Amsterdam, Manchester, Cologne, Singapore and Dallas in under 12 months.

The markets we specialise in are extremely lucrative, high value sectors - meaning a higher earning potential for you!

What will I be doing?

• Making business development calls to prospective and existing clients to win projects to work on
• Headhunting candidates to place onto your clients' projects
• Building and maintaining relationships
• Writing job adverts, building your personal brand and creating social media content to attract top talent
• Working the full recruitment lifecycle from qualification calls, booking in interviews and delivering offers
• Meeting your clients face-to-face on a regular basis, with current employees travelling across Europe to meet their clients!

What do I need?

• You live in or around Amsterdam
• You speak German or Dutch and can communicate well in English
• You have experience in sales and communication
• Above-average motivation, ambition, proactivity and determination
• Ideally, you have already worked in B2B sales or in similar positions
• You are open to new challenges and want to utilise your sales experience in a dynamic and exciting industry

What's in it for you?

• Intensive onboarding by our L&D department
• Structured 10-step progression plan with promotion opportunities from Trainee to Director
• Attractive incentives and regular team events such as international sales trips (Dubai, NYC, Skiing), monthly lunch clubs and Early Finish Fridays.
• Flat hierarchies, open feedback culture and international spirit.
• Attractive earning opportunities with the best bonus system on the market.
• Modern office in the centre of Amsterdam Central!
• Company laptop from day one, company mobile phone from Senior Consultant rank.

Amoria Bond as an employer is committed to diversity and equality. We confirm that we welcome all applications from candidates regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, disability, age or experience.

Your Role in Our Story: 

In essence, your role involves

• Leading and managing the trading of biomethane quotas, ensuring compliance with all regulatory standards.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers, customers, and regulatory bodies to expand our impact.
• Providing expert insights and staying ahead of legal and market developments related to biomethane quotas and renewable energy.
• Maximizing revenue from biomethane trading by leveraging our existing network and spotting new market opportunities.
• Supporting the registration process with environmental authorities, facilitating seamless trading transactions.
• Collaborating closely with the trading team, aligning on strategy, and sharing valuable market intelligence.

Your Expertise: 

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates with the following qualifications and attributes

• Fluency in both Italian and English.
• A Bachelor’s/Master's, preferably in Business, Economics, or Finance;
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in emissions trading, renewable energy certificates, or related environmental commodities.
• Deep understanding of the Fuel Quality Directive (FQD) and biomethane quota regulations.
• Proven success in trading with a strong revenue generation track record.
• Exceptional analytical skills and comfort with complex regulatory details.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work independently and as a collaborative team member.

Your Role in Our Story: 

In essence, your role involves

• Leading and managing the trading of biomethane quotas, ensuring compliance with all regulatory standards.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers, customers, and regulatory bodies to expand our impact.
• Providing expert insights and staying ahead of legal and market developments related to biomethane quotas and renewable energy.
• Maximizing revenue from biomethane trading by leveraging our existing network and spotting new market opportunities.
• Supporting the registration process with environmental authorities, facilitating seamless trading transactions.
• Collaborating closely with the trading team, aligning on strategy, and sharing valuable market intelligence.

Your Expertise: 

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates with the following qualifications and attributes

• Fluency in both (Swiss) German and English and French or Italian is a plus.
• A Bachelor’s/Master's, preferably in Business, Economics, or Finance.
• 0-3 years’ experience in emissions trading, renewable energy certificates, or related environmental commodities.
• Willing to learn about and develop a niche industry.
• Persistent, Ambitious and Energetic.

Nice to have:

• Understanding of the Swiss biomethane quota regulations.
• Exceptional analytical skills and comfort with complex regulatory details.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work independently and as a collaborative team member.

Your Role in Our Story: 

In essence, your role involves

• Leading and managing the trading of biomethane quotas, ensuring compliance with all regulatory standards.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers, customers, and regulatory bodies to expand our impact.
• Providing expert insights and staying ahead of legal and market developments related to biomethane quotas and renewable energy.
• Maximizing revenue from biomethane trading by leveraging our existing network and spotting new market opportunities.
• Supporting the registration process with environmental authorities, facilitating seamless trading transactions.
• Collaborating closely with the trading team, aligning on strategy, and sharing valuable market intelligence.

Your Expertise: 

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates with the following qualifications and attributes

• Fluency in both German and English.
• A Bachelor’s/Master's, preferably in Business, Economics, or Finance.
• 0-3 years’ experience in emissions trading, renewable energy certificates, or related environmental commodities.
• Willing to learn about and develop a niche industry.
• Persistent, Ambitious and Energetic.

Nice to have:

• Understanding of the Fuel Quality Directive (FQD) and biomethane quota regulations.
• Exceptional analytical skills and comfort with complex regulatory details.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work independently and as a collaborative team member.

Who are we?

Our world needs solutions, and we need them fast. A growing population and increasing living standards drive our energy and material consumption. To keep global warming at bay, we need to reduce our carbon footprint substantially and, in fact, transition towards a climate-neutral economy.

Avantium’s Vision: We believe in a fossil-free world; let’s go!

We create disruptive renewable process technologies to facilitate sustainability change and bring them to the world with partners to accelerate the transition towards renewable and circular business.

How can you contribute?

Avantium’s Renewable Polymers division is looking for an experienced License Sales Manager to lead licensing activities and coordinate local value chains for our renewable process technologies. As part of the License Team, reporting to the License Director, you will drive commercialization of our YXY® Technology, which converts plant-based feedstock into FDCA – the key building block of PEF, a 100% renewable and recyclable polyester with superior performance for packaging and textiles.

Avantium will launch its Flagship Plant in 2026 (5 kta FDCA/PEF) to demonstrate technology and market at commercial scale. Our business model focuses on selling YXY licenses for large-scale plants worldwide (>100 kta). For this, we work with leading companies across industries (feedstock, chemical companies as well as brands and retailers in a.o. food & beverage, cosmetics and apparel).

As License Sales Manager, you will lead a region (e.g., North America, Europe, Asia) and collaborate with partners in feedstock, operations, and financing. Internal alignment with  Engineering, Business Development, Finance, Legal, and IP is key. Based in Amsterdam, this role offers the chance to shape sustainable chemistry and develop professionally as part of an innovative team.

What will you be responsible for?

Develop Licensing Initiatives:

• Develop local license opportunities aligned with Avantium's business objectives.
• Identify potential licensing partners, convince them of their role in (or with) the license venture and negotiate agreements towards a license agreement.
• Support the licensee project organization from PDP delivery, through FEED, FID and EPC to Plant Acceptance.
• Evaluate market trends and competitive landscape to inform licensing strategy.

Relationship Management:

• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with potential and existing licensing partners.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for local licensing inquiries and negotiations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and act as a conduit for licensee input to Engineering and Technology & Innovation teams for continuous improvement and next-generation YXY Technologies

Intellectual Property Management:

• Work with legal and intellectual property teams to protect and enforce Avantium's IP
• Oversee the local portfolio of license related agreements (such as NDA, MoU, LOI, Term Sheets and License Agreements) and ensure compliance with contractual obligations.

Market Expansion and Business Development:

• Identify new market opportunities for Avantium's technologies and support strategies to expand the company's licensing service portfolio and proposition.
• Represent Avantium at industry conferences, trade shows, and other events to promote licensing opportunities and build partnerships.

What will you bring?

• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Business Administration, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 5 to 8 years of experience in chemical technology licensing is a must, preferably for novel technologies.
• Proven track record of successfully negotiating technology licensing agreements and driving revenue growth.
• Compelling team player across cultures, functions and seniorities, with experience in initiating and developing multi-stakeholder teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain global relationships with stakeholders in different disciplines.
• Strategic thinker with a results-oriented mindset and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• Fluency in English; additional languages are a plus.

What do we offer?

Avantium is a small company with a big impact. Whilst contributing to a circular economy, we offer you a unique chance to learn a lot: in science, business and management, leading people and operations, market strategies, quality and last but not least safety. Learning paths can be steep, not depending on predefined career paths and development tracks. You are in the lead of your career, what you bring to the table will be noticed and taking initiative is rewarded and recognized. We have an informal result-oriented culture, a flat organization and we recognize and celebrate the many cultures that we represent. On top of that we offer good primary and secondary benefits. 

Join us and our partners in transitioning to a fossil-free world, transforming their sustainability pledges into actionable proof points!

Interested? 

Let us know by applying through the website. If you have any questions, you can reach our HR Business partner Sil Bartlema at Sil.Bartlema@avantium.com . 

At Avantium, we are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and strive to create a supportive and inclusive work environment.