This recruitment is carried out anonymously. 

We’re looking for a SUSTAINABILITY MANAGER for a permanent position in our Marketing, Communications and Sustainability team in Espoo. 

What will you get to do? 

As the Sustainability Manager, you hold a key role in enabling sustainable business practices at Metsä Tissue, and have an excellent opportunity to contribute to the sustainability practices of the whole Group by active participation in the company forums. 

One of your main responsibilities is to support value creation with good sustainability governance at Metsä Tissue. You will be responsible for coordinating our sustainability KPIs, facilitating the creation and updates of our sustainability roadmaps, managing and developing the Metsä Tissue Sustainability Steering Group forum (which governs the company’s sustainability actions and targets), and contributing to Metsä Tissue’s sustainability reporting as part of Metsä Group’s annual reporting. 

You will have the opportunity to run projects that support sustainability related value creation and your proactive input in innovating and developing the company’s sustainability practices is highly valued. Your tasks can include eg. managing sustainability-related tools and processes such as Life Cycle Assessment calculations.  

One of your key tasks will be providing support to our organization with your sustainability expertise, including sales and marketing support on sustainability topics, participation in internal and external sustainability forums, supporting customer requests on need basis and running sustainability related trainings to the organization. As part of your role, you will also get to identify topics for and create materials to support sustainability communications to drive increased understanding and to talk about our success stories. You will also get to guide the work of a sustainability summer trainee.  

What kind of skills are we looking for? 

You are proactive and dynamic professional with an analytical mindset. With your independent and self-driven way of working, you take ownership of the tasks that you are responsible of 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. Most of all, you are driven and motivated to develop sustainable company operations with your positive and proactive approach.  

We expect you to have: 

• Understanding of the different elements of sustainability and ability to create value to business with sustainability. Interest in understanding various sustainability related concepts and their linkage to business 

• Ability to manage, develop, and govern the company’s sustainability agendas and strategies 

• Understanding of sustainability reporting practices and reporting in external 3rd party platforms such as EcoVadis  

• Understanding of Life Cycle Assessment calculations 

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, ability to create understandable and motivating sustainability communication and training materials and the capability to train on sustainability topics. 

• Excellent project management skills together with good leadership skills in networks 

• Min. 3-5 years of sustainability management-related experience, including eg. KPIs & roadmaps management, sustainability reporting and project management of sustainability initiatives 

• Master's degree focused on sustainability 

• Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Good knowledge of Finnish is also highly appreciated 

• Knowledge of an industrial operating environment is seen an asset. 

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. 

Read more and watch the video on anonymous recruitment. 

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 Sustainability Manager Anni Koponen or MPS consultants Veronika Solovian and Annina Ahlroth. You can reach Anni by phone at +358 40 773 1647 on April 23 between 13-14, and April 29 between 14-15.

MPS consultants will be available to answer your questions as follows: Veronika Solovian (+358207469486) on April 22nd between 14-15, Annina Ahlroth (+358 20 746 9519) on May 2nd at 10-11.  

How to apply? 

Click on this link 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 4, 2025. We wish you the best of luck!