Would you like to join a global, growing company that innovates for a more sustainable tomorrow? UPM could be the team for you. We are frontrunners in developing renewable alternatives to fossil-based materials. Besides enabling both businesses and consumers make more sustainable choices, we strive to create a positive UPM experience for all our employees around the world. We live by our values - trust and be trusted, achieve together, renew with courage. Join us in creating a future beyond fossils!
We are now looking for a Manager, Chain of Custody Compliance and audit management in UPM Biorefining Marketing, Sustainability and Communications team. The preferred location for the position is Helsinki, Finland. Other UPM locations in Europe can also be considered.
Greetings from your future manager
Welcome to join to our Sustainability team, which provides you an opportunity to be a key contributor in UPM Biorefining success by ensuring regulatory and standard compliance for our products and value chains. Our team drives sustainable development and ensures sustainability is in the core in everything we do. I am looking forward to welcoming you to the team! Liisa Ranta, Director Sustainability and Market Development
What you will do
- Ensure compliance of our products with regulatory and certification requirements
- Coordinate and manage internal and external audits
- Design and execute chain of custody related trainings
- Ensure consistency and accuracy of supply chain data and continuously improve external databases versus UPM ERP and reporting ecosystem
- Serve as the point of contact and partner for our Commercial and Supply Chain Teams, providing market and compliance consulting
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to maintain and improve Chain of Custody practices
- Monitor relevant sustainability regulations and standards and evolve audit and certification practices accordingly
- Participate in the process for ensuring regulatory market access in our key markets and manage trademark checks and approvals
Who you are
- In-depth knowledge and experience of implementing chain of custody management in relation to certification schemes such as ISCC, RSB or other voluntary sustainability assurance systems for biofuels or biomaterials. Familiarity with forest certification standards such as FSC and PEFC is a positive addition but not a requirement
- Expertise in sustainability chain of custody practices, regulations, and standards
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements of the EU Renewable Energy Directive and related rules. Preferably both at EU general level and in EU key markets such as Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain
- Experience in working in the fuel and energy sector
- Proficient ability to understand and design business processes
- Understanding of IT/tools/systems related to chain of custody and ability to analyze and interpret sustainability date
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
- Project management and problem-solving skills and attention to detail
This is what we offer to you
- A meaningful job - We have an inspiring purpose 'We create a future beyond fossils. Our work is impactful and transformative.
- A caring community - Our community is built on great team spirit and shared commitment. We care about each other and the well-being of our colleagues. We support the work-life balance of all our employees.
- Development opportunities - We offer you great opportunities to learn and grow throughout your career. We are an international, multi-business organization offering plenty of avenues for personal growth.
- Responsible employer - Sustainability is at the core of everything we do. We are committed to ambitious, science-based sustainability targets in all areas from climate change to biodiversity. We foster diversity and inclusivity, offering a work environment in which everyone can be themselves.
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Additional information
For further information, please contact Liisa Ranta, Director, Sustainability and Market Development at UPM Biorefining, at liisa.ranta@upm.com or tel. +358405829338, on 24.4. between 14-16 and 28.4. between 14-16 EEST.
Please apply and attach your CV and Cover Letter by May 7, 2025. Please note that we will go through the applications already during the application period and may invite candidates for interviews already before the end of the application period.
For support with submitting your application, please contact the HR Service Center atcareers@upm.com or tel. +358204146600.
For UPM positions located in Finland, a security background check may be performed for those selected in accordance with the company recruitment guidelines and the Security Clearance Act 726/2014.
UPM Biorefining spearheads UPM's growth to become a global renewable fuels and chemicals leader, enabling the defossilization of entire value chains. A transformation at this scale is needed to establish an effective response to our planet's biggest challenge: climate change. Building on sustainable feedstock from forest industry side streams and climate value biomass, we scale novel technologies into a platform of biorefineries addressing the growing market demand for renewable chemicals, materials as well as transport and aviation fuels. The portfolio of biorefineries includes the operating facility in Lappeenranta (Finland), producing renewable fuels and naphtha since 2015, the Leuna biorefinery (Germany), starting up by the end of 2024, producing biochemicals including renewable glycols and Renewable Functional Fillers (RFF) as well as a potential third biorefinery currently under evaluation in Rotterdam (The Netherlands).
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