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 an Advanced Analytics Specialist to work together with UPM businesses to analyze and solve data oriented business challenges. The position is located in Helsinki, Finland.

The Advanced Analytics team is a part of UPM’s digitalization agenda. Its purpose is to help UPM businesses save costs, improve processes and find new solutions by utilizing data, mathematical modelling and tool development in both business-specific and UPM wide projects and programs.

For this position we can consider either junior candidates with good technical skills, or senior candidates with several years of relevant work experience.

Greetings from your future manager

“The selected applicant will apply technical skills for highly relevant business problems in a company full of exciting opportunities. In addition to meaningful projects, we offer a working environment that supports self-development, new ideas and modern ways of working.” - Matti Vuorinen, Director, Advanced Analytics

What you’ll do

• Take initiative and work together with business experts across UPM
• Lead and participate in projects where mathematical methodologies such as statistical analysis, machine learning and optimization are applied to real-life business challenges that have significant value for UPM
• Develop tools using e.g. Python programming language in modern cloud environments
• Help develop analytics culture and ways of working both in the team, and in UPM as a whole

Who you are

• You have a Master’s or Doctoral Degree in Operations Research, Management Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent
• You have deep technical knowledge and experience in optimization, stochastics, statistical analysis, machine learning, or programming
• You are positive, willing to co-operate with business experts, and have good English communications skills
• Industrial work experience from areas relevant to UPM is an asset
• Proven ability and enthusiasm to deliver results in form of software is an asset
   

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, both in business and in mathematical problem solving. 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

For further information, please contact, Director, Advanced Analytics, Matti Vuorinen, by phone +358405298824 on 5th of December at 10-12am or on 10th of December at 10-12am) or via email  matti.vuorinen@upm.com.
 

Please apply via the link below and attach your CV and cover letter by 15th of December 2019.
 

For support with submitting your application, please contact UPM's HR Service Center at contacthr@upm.com or +358204146600.

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