SUMMER TRAINEE, SOURCING EXCELLENCE

Location:Espoo, FI
Country/Region: FI
Job Area: Strategy & Business Development
Business Unit: Feedstock Sourcing & Trading

YOUR ROLE DURING THE SUMMER

You will support our team and get the opportunity to deepen your own expertise within the areas of global supply chain management, commodity markets as well as industrial sourcing tools and processes development.
As our Summer Trainee, you will focus on maintaining and improving the performance of our core operative processes linked to renewable feedstock sourcing. Your work is driven by ensuring efficiency and excellence in our operations while also providing solutions to operative issues and finding avenues for delivering added value to the regional sourcing teams.

In your role, you will

• Support our core operative processes concerning renewable feedstock sourcing, such as volume and price forecasting, supplier life cycle management as well as delivery and payment related activities
• Solve potential operational challenges rising from daily operations while also driving continuous improvement to our sourcing processes and tools
• Develop metrics to monitor our process performance and identify opportunities to improve processes to enable efficient operations and a solid supplier experience
• Support in developing our business performance monitoring capabilities, where necessary
• Act as a substitute for the Sourcing Excellence team representatives in operative processes as well as critical initiatives and projects during the summer holiday season, where necessary

THE BEST COMBINATION TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE

• You are currently studying or have studied a relevant field of study such as Economics & Business Administration, Industrial Engineering and Management, or similar
• Excellent communication skills in English
• Professional experience from positions that demonstrate good teamwork skills, stakeholder management and ability to lead your own work
• Any experience within the domains of e.g. Sourcing or Sales, Commodities management, Supply chain management or Logistics and Operations is considered as an advantage
• Motivation and keen interest in working in a global organization focused on commodity supply chains and related operative development
• Good analytical skills and experience from using the most common IT tools especially for data analysis, such as Excel, Google Sheets and PowerBI