This recruitment is carried out anonymously.

We’re looking for a

SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTOR

for a permanent position in our Marketing, Communications and Sustainability team in Espoo.

What will you get to do?

As Sustainability Director, you will lead and develop Metsä Tissue’s sustainability team, with a unique opportunity at the outset to shape its structure, define ways of working, and establish a strong foundation for future success. Your main responsibility is to turn sustainability into a business value driver through effective commercialization and concept development, while ensuring good sustainability governance. You will be responsible for:

• Monitoring sustainability KPIs and ensuring roadmaps are relevant, up to date, and aligned with target achievement
• Leading the development of Metsä Tissue’s sustainability initiatives, programs, and internal collaboration forums
• Owning and developing the Metsä Tissue Sustainability Steering Group
• Lead Metsä Tissue’s contributions to Metsä Group’s sustainability reporting

You will lead key sustainability projects at Metsä Tissue, including the development of the "Metsä Tissue Sustainability Services" model and tools such as LCA frameworks. In addition, you will lead the development of sustainability culture across the organization and support commercial teams with tools, training, and messaging to integrate sustainability into customer engagement. Finally, you will ensure continuous learning and capability building on sustainability across Metsä Tissue’s organization.

What kind of skills are we looking for?

You are a proactive and dynamic leader with an analytical mindset. With your independent and self-driven way of working, you are able to take ownership of the sustainability team and are able to create the needed networks within the company and the Group to support your work.

You are a strong project leader who is result oriented, precise, and accurate with facts as well as a good and clear communicator. You have strong social and team working skills and you find it easy to network with various stakeholders both internally and externally.

You are interested in understanding different sustainability concepts and their linkage to business and have a high development orientation.  You are able to create business value through sustainability and develop organizational competence in this area. Most of all, you are driven and motivated to develop sustainable company operations with your positive and proactive approach. Your ideas and insight are welcomed and highly appreciated at Metsä Tissue.

We expect you to have:

Sustainability Expertise

• Comprehensive understanding of the areas of sustainability and proven experience in leading and governing corporate sustainability agenda and initiatives
• Understanding of sustainability reporting and 3rd party assessments with a value-driven approach
• Experience in managing sustainability roadmaps and key performance indicators (KPIs)

Communication and Leadership Skills

• Strong project management capabilities and change management skills, especially in cross-functional and networked environments
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, ability to create motivating sustainability communication and training materials

Education & Experience

• 5+ years of comprehensive sustainability management and/or leadership experience
• Master's degree focused on sustainability, or other suitable degree

Language skills and Industry Knowledge

• Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Good knowledge of Finnish is also highly appreciated
• Sustainability leadership and commercialization experience from a large corporation / in an industrial context is an advantage

Career in the new era at Metsä Group

An international growth business – build a successful career At Metsä Group. The forest industry is a prime example of the bioeconomy and circular economy, and shows the way to the future. Megatrends such as urbanisation and rising living standards are driving Metsä Group’s business and the shift to renewable fossil free raw materials. With us, you’ll get to develop future skills, business and products with a long-term perspective, together with our top professionals. Our big company offers a wide range of career opportunities and many interesting challenges.

Metsä Group has a responsible corporate culture that creates a safe working environment for all of us. We value good leadership and support for personal career development. We encourage you to display your competence and will provide you with opportunities to use it.

We offer our employees a wide range of fringe benefits, including comprehensive occupational health care, and extensive training and development opportunities. To support wellbeing at work, we encourage our employees to take advantage of culture, sports and bicycle benefits.

Metsä Group has a hybrid working model. In this position, part of the work can be done remotely.

Enter a new era in your career,​ welcome to Metsä Group!​

Anonymous recruitment – this is how it works

This is an anonymous recruitment process. The gender and date of birth of the applicant are not asked for on the application form. Personal details such as name, mother tongue, time of studies, name of educational institution and contact details are hidden until the interview stage. Attachments (such as CVs) are also hidden.

This recruitment is carried out by Metsä Group’s recruitment partner MPS. Our partner sees the applicants’ details in the system, but the applicants remain anonymous to Metsä Group during application processing. Our recruitment partner is committed to presenting the most suitable applicants for the open position.

Our system will guide you through the application process. The questions on the application form will help you present your skills and experience anonymously. Answer all questions carefully. If you’re invited for interview, your CV will be displayed to the recruiters to support the interview.

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Would you like to know more? Contact us!

Because the application process is anonymous, we don’t record any information about people who contact us. So don’t hesitate to call us if you have any questions about the position or the recruitment process itself. For more information about the position, please contact our recruitment partner MPS consultants Veronika Solovian and Annina Ahlroth. You can reach them by phone, and they will be available to answer your questions as follows: Veronika Solovian (+358 20 746 9486) on May 15th between 15–16, Annina Ahlroth (+358 20 746 9519) on May 20th at 15–16.

How to apply?

Click here to apply. Note that attachments won’t be visible in anonymous recruitment until the interview stage, so it’s important to fill in the application form carefully. Please send your application as soon as possible, as we’ll already start processing applications during the application period. Please include your curriculum vitae and salary request. You’ll receive a confirmation message the next morning after your application has been received.

The application will be open until May 27, 2025. We wish you the best of luck!