099 Integrating Sustainability into business - a pharma supplier perspective with Marwin Krull
The Sustainable Healthcare PodcastShow Notes
Meeting Pharma's Rising Sustainability Demands: Marwin Krull on Körber Pharma and the Alliance to Zero Marwin Krull is Sustainability Lead for the Pharma business area at Körber Pharma and Vice President of the Alliance to Zero. He explains how pharma customer requests have evolved from broad questions about EcoVadis scores and green electricity to specific demands around product carbon footprints, SBTi alignment, CDP thresholds, and ISO-based LCAs. Key takeaways:Pharma sustainability demands have matured fast - customers now ask for verified GHG inventories and product-level carbon footprints, not just policies Closing the gap between group sustainability strategy and day-to-day operations requires internal coordination, sales enablement, and e-learning - not just a target The Alliance to Zero (founded 2021) is driving practical collaboration across the autoinjector value chain, including a syringe packaging redesign and "green premium" transparency research with TU Hamburg Timestamps: 00:00 - Customer sustainability pressure 00:37 - Meet Marwin Krull and his roles 03:35 - How customer demands evolved 07:13 - What Körber Pharma does 10:21 - Inside the sustainability role 14:58 - Sales enablement and training 18:05 - What is Alliance to Zero 21:30 - Collaboration wins and research 25:33 - Practical advice and wrap-up Links: Marwin Krull on LinkedIn | Alliance to Zero | Körber Pharma Hosts: Joachim Almdal on LinkedIn | Frederik van Deurs on LinkedIn | Care Pathway Consulting "Customers went from asking 'do you have green electricity?' to asking for ISO-verified product carbon footprints in just a few years." - Marwin Krull
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