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 Senior Specialist, Product Stewardship to a new position in our Responsibility team in Helsinki or Tampere. Other UPM locations in Europe can be considered.

Greetings from your future manager

“Want to play a key role in promoting sustainable use of chemicals in a global company that provides solutions for a future beyond fossils? As a Senior Specialist, Product Stewardship, with UPM’s Responsibility team you’ll have the opportunity to shape the way how business is done and contribute to ensuring compliance and developing capabilities in chemicals management across UPM’s businesses.  If your heart beats for promoting safe and sustainable chemicals, you might be the talent we are looking for.  – Kaisa Herranen, Senior Manager, Product Stewardship

What you’ll do

Our global presence and growth in new business areas create many opportunities but also challenges for us. Chemicals and chemicals management have become an increasingly important topic due to new end use areas and related regulations. Forthcoming biomolecular businesses will take need of expertise to the next level. The purpose of this job is to provide advisory and develop capabilities in chemicals management and use of safe and sustainable chemicals.

In this position, you will:

• Provide advisory on chemicals, chemicals regulations and management related questions across UPM’s businesses and functions
• Develop and coordinate use of safe and sustainable chemicals together with UPM’s businesses and functions
• Develop and contribute to UPM’s guidelines/policies related to chemicals, external reporting, and communications
• Participate in Product Stewardship team tasks related to, for example, product safety and development of sustainable products
• Represent UPM in collaboration forums and other events towards external partners and key stakeholders
• Support UPM Business areas in REACH registrations and have a role of an internal expert in chemicals regulations

Who you are

• You have a desire to advance chemicals management and safe use of chemicals in a complex and international business environment
• Have a university degree in chemistry or chemical engineering (M. Sc. or PhD)
• You have thorough and current knowledge of chemical regulations, safe use of chemicals and preferably expertise on wood chemistry, paper chemistry or polymer chemistry
• You have minimum 3 years of working experience in industry or in other relevant background
• You have ability to analyse and understand research and to identify relevant and valuable information
•  You are an effective collaborator and engager with good interpersonal, influencing and networking skills. Working in matrix organization feels natural to you
• You have good written and verbal communication skills in English
• You have good organizational skills, and you sustain pressure

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 more information, please contact Kaisa Herranen, Senior Manager, Product Stewardship, tel. +358407774776 on Thursday, 11.11. 10:00 – 12:00 and on Tuesday, 23.11. 16:00 – 17:00.

Please send your application, CV, and relevant work samples with your salary expectation via the link by 24.11.2021. We will start going through the applications already during the 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.

We deliver renewable and responsible solutions and innovate for a future beyond fossils across six business areas: UPM Biorefining, UPM Energy, UPM Raflatac, UPM Specialty Papers, UPM Communication Papers and UPM Plywood. As the industry leader in responsibility we are committed to the UN Business Ambition for 1.5°C and the science-based targets to mitigate climate change. We employ 18,000 people worldwide and our annual sales are approximately EUR 8.6 billion. Our shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. UPM Biofore – Beyond fossils. www.upm.com

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