Operational Excellence Trainee

Business Finland is now looking for a full time, fixed-term (10 months) Operational Excellence Trainee with a hands-on attitude and proactive mindset. Working in the team for Business Finland’s Strategic Priority Area “Operationally Excellent and Agile Organisation” offers you an excellent chance to start your career and work closely with Business Finland’s strategy implementation.

Instruction:

Business Finland has defined five strategic priority areas where we need to take development leaps to fulfill our strategy. Each strategic priority area includes projects and other development activities. As Operational Excellence Trainee you will be working in a team that is steering and implementing development activities in the Strategic Priority Area “Operationally Excellent and Agile Organisation”. This strategic priority area is a horizontal activity covering and having impact on the entire organization. You will participate in the implementation of the development projects in this strategic priority area and contribute to the coordination and communication activities.

Your role

You will get an opportunity to work in a fast-moving and truly global organization, offering you a unique view on international markets and business environments.

In this position, your job tasks include the following:

• Project work: participation in the specified development projects

• Information gathering and analysis for development projects’ needs

• Diverse communications tasks: content creation both for internal and external use, for example presentation materials and reports

• Supporting Strategic Priority Area coordination (reporting, communication, annual planning) project managers (e.g. in public procurement) and external service providers

What we expect from you:

• Relevant educational background from university or university of applied sciences (e.g. social sciences, marketing, finance, economics)

• Previous experience in information gathering and analysis and project work

• Analytical mindset to be able to contribute to the development project

• Good social skills and also the ability to work independently: you feel at ease in an international and fast-moving environment

• Fluent communication skills in Finnish and in English

• Good skills in the Office 365 environment

You are a persistent person who gets excited and shows passion for what you do. You are a self-guided person who helps others and listens to colleagues. You have a “can-and-will-do” attitude, thrive on challenges, and are not afraid of tackling problems. Good organization skills, curiosity, and eagerness to solve problems and a pinch of social intelligence will get you a long way with us.

This is what we offer:

This traineeship is an excellent way to start your career, if you are looking forward to working with tasks related to Finnish companies and their internationalization. As a Business Finland trainee, you will be an important junior colleague to our seasoned professionals, as we try to reach our common goal – to support Finnish businesses in their growth and internationalization efforts.

By being a part of our international work environment, you will learn about a great variety of industries. To make your traineeship a great experience for you, we will take your competencies and interests into account as much as possible in shaping your tasks.

We provide flexible remote work possibilities. We also offer sports, culture and wellbeing benefits through ePassi as well as good occupational health care.

Additional information

Looking for a kick-start to your career?

Please, submit your application letter and CV by February 8th at the latest via our application system. Please, note that this is a trainee position, and the salary is proportional to the level of the job requirements. In this position, you will be employed directly by Business Finland.

As a part of the recruitment process, we will be carrying out a security clearance check on the successful candidate, with his/her consent, in accordance with the Security Clearance Act 726/2014 of Finland. For more information on the security clearance procedure and individual’s rights, please visit: https://supo.fi/en/personnel-security-clearances

For more information about the recruitment process contact aTalent’s Roosa Lönnqvist (+358 50 421 0255, roosa.lonnqvist[at]atalent.fi). Best times to contact via phone are on: Fri 28.1. 11:00-12:00 and Thu 3.2. 13:00-14:00.

How will this recruitment process proceed?

25.1.: Application period starts
8.2.: Application period ends
9.2. – 14.2.: Google Meet interviews with aTalent
17.2. – 28.2.: Interviews with Business Finland
1.3.: Starting date