Value creation & commercialisation

Value creation and commercialisation

Sustainability is increasingly shaping what drives growth, influences buying decisions, and builds long-term customer loyalty.

For companies ready to lead, it unlocks new revenue streams, sharpens value propositions, and delivers cost savings that reduce both carbon and spend. But to realise this potential, sustainability must be embedded into the commercial core, not treated as an external add-on.

We help companies commercialise sustainability

We help companies integrate sustainability into product development, sales strategy, and pricing models, Transforming it into a lever for growth, margin, and differentiation.

Commercialisation

We work with companies to turn sustainability into a commercial advantage, whether that means enhancing existing offerings or developing entirely new green value propositions. Our approach includes:

  • Sustainable product development: Defining customer value propositions and business cases for sustainability-led offerings
  • Go-to-market strategy: Segmentation, channel strategy, and roll-out planning for green products and services
  • Commercial excellence: Identifying high-potential customers, optimising customer targeting, and embedding sustainability KPIs into sales incentives
  • Sales execution: Quantifying and communicating sustainability impact, building hero cases, developing sales playbooks, and training commercial teams on green claims and sustainability-driven storytelling

We tailor our approach based on where the client is in their commercial sustainability journey, from validating existing benefits to building entirely new business models.

Sustainability-linked cost savings

We help clients reduce operational costs while simultaneously cutting CO₂e emissions. This dual-value approach integrates financial and environmental outcomes, identifying initiatives that unlock immediate wins and long-term impact. Examples include:

  • Reducing energy consumption across operations
  • Switching to low-carbon alternatives for IT or materials
  • Integrating CO₂e performance into supplier selection
  • Cutting production waste and inefficiencies
Our support unfolds in two phases
  • Initial assessment: A rapid scan of potential CO₂e levers with indicative cost and carbon savings.
  • Full realisation: Prioritisation, business case development, and implementation planning — including both quick wins (e.g. indirect procurement) and longer-term strategic moves (e.g. materials, production methods).

“Sustainability isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s a powerful lever for business. We help organisations unlock new markets, increase revenue, and drive profitability through sustainability-led innovation and cost efficiency.”

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Jakob brings expertise in management consulting and business development, with an emphasis on strategy and transformation projects. At The Footprint Firm, Jakob specialises in sustainability in private equity at fund and portfolio company level. He has strong experience in working with sustainability in a value creation sense incl. CSRD readiness / DMA, ESG strategy, decarbonization & target setting and sustainability alignment (EU Taxonomy and SFDR / article 9). He also has extensive experience with transaction processes on both the buyer- and seller-side running multiple ESG DD and VDD processes.

Before joining The Footprint Firm, Jakob worked 2+ years as Director of Business Development in Arla Foods responsible for Strategy & Business Development in Arla’s International markets (outside Europe) as well as leading a team of global business development managers across the globe.

Before Arla, Jakob was a Manager at QVARTZ (now Bain & Co), where he advised in the Consumer Goods and Private Equity sector. Jakob’s project experience includes strategy, transformation, commercial excellence, organization, sourcing excellence and M&A. Jakob’s industry experience also covers engagements in the automotive, energy and construction sector.

Prior to QVARTZ, Jakob worked 2 years as a consultant in Booz & Company (now Strategy&) living in Amsterdam.

Jakob holds a Master of Science in Mathematical Modelling & Computation from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) with a focus on applied statistics and operational research. Part of his degree was completed at RMIT in Melbourne.