Summer Trainee, Strategy

During the summer you will gain valuable experience from your own field of study. We offer versatile and responsible tasks in an international company that builds for a more sustainable tomorrow? We are inspired by the limitless opportunities offered by the bioeconomy, and we lead the way towards a future beyond fossils. Join us on this exciting path!

We are now looking for Summer Trainee, Strategy to join our UPM Raflatac Strategy and Commercial Development team in our head office, the Biofore House, in Helsinki

Greetings from future manager

“Are you interested in learning how we create effective strategies and drive strategic decision making in UPM Raflatac? Would you have a passion for shaping our strategy yourself? If you are a proactive and positive person ready to make a difference we would be excited to have you as part of our team. Our mission is to make sure UPM Raflatac improves its ability to compete in the marketplace and builds the foundations for long term success. As one example we are driving the penetration of e-commerce in our industry to build a second to none digital customer experience. – Harri Janhunen, Vice President, Strategy and Commercial Development, UPM Raflatac

What you’ll do

As Strategy trainee you will be assisting us with a broad range of projects including:

• Roll out of our digital customer experience MyRAFLATAC
• Optimization of Raflatac pricing
• Building our customer experience
• Business intelligence projects of our key competition

Who you are

• Soon to graduate business / engineering student
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Experience in project management and good analytical skills
• Strength in key business tools (Excel, Powerpoint) – experience with Tableau, Power BI considered as a plus
• Fluent in English (both written and spoken), Finnish is also beneficial

What we offer to 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. You will become a part of our motivated and supporting work community.
• Development opportunities: With us you can build up your expertise. We provide opportunities to support your development throughout every stage of your summer traineeship. We offer you a chance to develop in an innovative work environment. Many of our summer trainees continue with UPM as Thesis Workers or return to us later in their 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.

Are you ready?

Read more about summer recruitment process, applying, timeline, all available positions and more information on www.upm.com/summer or www.upm.com/kesa in Finnish. Application period ends 14 February 2022. Notice that new positions can still be opened during application period.

We will start processing the applications already during the application period. Please add your resume and CV at the same stage of application.

We are committed to being a responsible employer and participate in Responsible Summer Job -campaign.

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