Specialist/Senior Specialist, Indirect Procurement Operations

Are you looking to join a dynamic, innovation-driven, international company, building a better future for us all? UPM leads the forest based bioindustry into a sustainable, innovation-driven, and exciting future. The competence, integrity and drive of our people make us unique. We live by our values – trust and be trusted, achieve together, renew with courage.

We are now looking for a Specialist / Senior Specialist in Indirect Procurement Operations, Finnish speaker to join our team in Wroclaw, Poland or Tampere, Finland

Greetings from your future manager

“Welcome to Source to Pay Operations Organization!  The Indirect Procurement Operations team works with different parts of global organization and has a key role in increasing internal efficiency, driving digitalization as well as ensuring compliance. We are passionate about what we do and we enjoy challenges. We are now looking for a Specialist or Senior Specialist who will support our Global Functions with high quality procurement activities.

Interested? Come and join us! – Dorota, Manager, Indirect Procurement Operations

What you’ll do

Your main tasks are:

• Proceed on-time procurement (Purchase Orders, Frame Orders, of required goods and services) for Global Functions

• Initiate new suppliers onboarding process

• Spend plans creation

• Be a first point of contact for requestors

• Manage buying channels

• Give input and participate in development projects

• Support effective implementation of new processes and digital solutions

• Conduct users training

• Manage supplier relationships, work on their service improvement, make sure the agreed quality changes are applied

• Ensure compliance with UPM internal controls, business rules, policies and legal requirements

• Proactively identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to improve efficiency and compliance

• Ensure contract availability and compliance

• Handle and support with claims

Who you are

• You have at least a Bachelor’s degree or other relevant professional qualification in related area

• You have at least 2 years of work experience in procurement/sourcing/purchasing  area

• You are comfortable working with ERP systems (preferably SAP ARIBA)

• You are fluent in English and Finnish.

• Experience from working in a global organization is considered as an asset

• You are solution-oriented with a problem solving mindset

• You have strong collaboration, influencing and team working skills with flexible, positive and proactive attitude towards changing environment

• You have ability and willingness to achieve own and team’s targets with provided timelines

• You have self-management skills and are not afraid to take initiative and challenge the status quo

This is what we offer for you

• Meaningful job: We are proud of what we do. Our work highlights the expertise of our personnel, the high quality of our products and the company's values.

• Inspired and motivated teams: We have highly skilled workforce. We are a multifaceted, international organisation that works as a team to achieve our shared objectives.

• Development opportunities: With us you can build up your expertise. We provide opportunities to support your development throughout every stage of your career.

• Responsibility for people and environment: Our ethical principles embrace people as well as the environment. We are always striving to build a more sustainable future.

Additional information

The position is located in Wroclaw, Poland or Tampere, Finland

The position holder will report to Dorota Krasińska, Manager, Indirect Procurement Operations,

Please apply via the link above and attach your CV and cover letter in English latest by 15th of August 202

We review applications already during the application period, you may be contacted before the application end date.

For support with submitting your application, please contact the HR Service Center at careers@upm.com or tel. +48123999499.

UPM is a global forest industry leader with headquarters in Finland. We create renewable and responsible wood-based alternatives for fossil-based materials utilizing our expertise in engineering, innovation and digitalization. In Poland, UPM is running two factories near Wrocław, a Human Resources Service Center in Kraków and UPM Business Hub at the heart of the city of Wrocław. At the moment, the Wrocław Hub brings together over 350 professionals in customer, supplier and financial services.

What makes us unique? The Finnish leadership culture encourages people in personal growth and self-development, and our values - trust and be trusted, achieve together, renew with courage – are visible in our everyday work. We are inspired by the limitless opportunities of the bioeconomy and we lead the way towards a future beyond fossils. Got interested?  Join us on this exciting path!

If you wish to get more insight about who we are, check out the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6258TfnWOoY&ab_channel=UPM-TheBioforeCompany