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 now are looking for a Senior Manager, Business Control for UPM Pulp Sales & Supply Chain in Biorefining Business Area in Helsinki, Finland.

Greetings from your future manager

“UPM Pulp has very interesting growth prospects, and your role as part of Biorefining Business Control Management Team, Pulp Sales Management Team and Pulp Supply Chain Management Team is to further develop our sales and supply chain business control activities and finance processes to the next level. You have strong passion for developing and delivering. Good collaboration with various finance and business stakeholders is crucial for succeeding in this interesting position.” – Tomi Sederholm, Vice President, Business Control, UPM Biorefining

What you’ll do

• Drive sales performance management and commercial excellence together with UPM Pulp commercial organization

• Manage and develop sales reporting, forecasting, analytics, and target-setting processes of UPM Pulp Sales & Supply Chain

• Develop and harmonize pricing analytics, finance processes and tools in co-operation with various finance and business stakeholders

• Handle ad hoc financial, scenario and what-if analysis

• Participate and take ownership in various development initiatives and projects

• Collaborate widely with finance and business stakeholders 

Who you are

• You are self-driven with high ambition to develop and gain results

• You have Master’s degree in relevant studies and minimum of five years' relevant work experience

• You are highly motivated and proactive person who is willing to learn and grow

• You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, and understanding of sales and supply chain

• You have good influencing, networking and communications skills and an ability to summarize essentials 

• You have broad understanding of various aspects in finance, and you are eager to learn the business

• You are fluent in English, and other language skills are considered as an asset

• You have high integrity and independence

• You have excellent PowerBI and Excel skills; experience of data processing tools as well as visualization tools and ERP system(s) are considered a benefit

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 organization 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

For further information please contact VP, Business Control, UPM Biorefining Tomi Sederholm, tel. +35850 3445780 during October 26 at 1-2 p.m., or November 2 at 1-2 p.m EET.

Please apply via the link and attach your CV and cover letter by 7 November 2021. We will start going through the applications already during application period so please submit your application as soon as possible.

For support with submitting your application, please contact the HR Service Center at careers@upm.com or tel. +358204146600.

A security background check may be performed for those selected to UPM positions, in accordance with the company recruitment guidelines and the Security Clearance Act 726/2014.

UPM is a non-smoking workplace in Finland.

UPM is one of the world's leading producers of northern softwood, birch and eucalyptus pulp. We supply global customers in end use segments such as tissue, specialty, packaging and graphic papers, and board, through our own sales and technical service networks close to customers in the Apac region and Europe. UPM Pulp operates four modern pulp mills – three in Finland and one in Uruguay – as well as eucalyptus plantations in Uruguay. UPM Pulp employs approximately 1​,800 people. The annual production capacity of our mills is 3.7 million tonnes of pulp. In 2019 we started the construction of a 2.1 million tonne/year greenfield eucalyptus pulp mill near Paso de los Toros in central Uruguay. The mill is scheduled to start up in the second half of 2022. Pulp Business is part of the UPM Biorefining Business Area which combines the integrated production of pulp, timber and biofuels with a synergistic supply chain of wood raw materials. www.upmpulp.com

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