Business Development Specialist to Stora Enso Innovation Centre

We are looking for a summer worker, a Business Development Specialist for the Emerging business bio-based fibres and films team. The film developing team is working very closely with a strong focus on new technologies and customer’s needs. Your location will be Stora Enso Innovation Centre for biomaterials in Sickla, Stockholm.
Stora Enso is a leading global provider of renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wooden constructions and paper. Come grow a renewable world. And you will grow too.
As a business development specialist, you will be responsible of finding customers for testing our new renewable packaging films during the summer. We want to validate if the market is ready to accept these films, and your role is to make the customers want to try and to assist their test and implementation. You will contact potential customers and converters via phone and email, as well as make workplace visits, why travelling will be required in this job. You will be the person coordinating the business activities when it comes to everything from customer contact and solutions to make it work for the specific customer.
Furthermore, the position includes the task of gaining a deeper understanding of the requirements for film materials.
By working at our Innovation Centre for biomaterials you will be part of a dynamic, international and interdisciplinary environment. We have high focus on health and safety and you will together with your colleagues consider safety throughout all aspects of work.
What we offer
With our values, “Lead and Do What’s Right” we endeavor to set the example and to lead in all aspects of our business as well as sustainability. We dare to take the initiative and constantly ask ourselves what can we do more and what we can do better. This is an excellent opportunity for you to be part of the journey Stora Enso is on – transforming from a traditional forest industry company, into a renewable materials growth company – an industry with great potential driven by global megatrends. As Business Development Specialist you will recieve a great opportunity to learn about film applications, customer interaction and gain practical sales experience within the field. For the right person, this work could be extended also after summer.
Qualifications
Are you the one? In order to succeed in this role, you have some industrial working experience, as well as experience within sales, preferably technical sales. Your proficiency is based on ongoing studies or a completed degree within sales and marketing or within chemistry or other relevant area. Experience from a similar role will be seen as a strong merit.  
You are a great communicator and communicate fluently in English, and have good knowledge in Microsoft office tools. If you speak Swedish, Finnish or German those are all advantageous. You have a dynamic work attitude with an analytical and systematic approach as well as excellent team working skills. You are social, easy going and business focused in terms of customers’ present and future needs.
We are flexible when it comes to working period, but we believe beginning of June until the end of August to be a great period for this job.
Additional Information
Do you want to make the world a better place? Join our renewable materials company. Please submit your application via our recruitment system latest by  April 3rd, 2020. Hiring manager Mikael Gällstedt, mikael.gallstedt@storaenso.com is happy to answer your questions about the position. Other questions can be directed to Recruitment Specialist Sarah Söder, sarah.soder.ext@storaenso.com. We accept applications submitted only through our recruitment system.
Union representatives are Jesper Ekström, jesper.ekstrom@storaenso.com and Heikki Lotti, heikki.lotti@storaenso.com.
Prospective employees are screened for drug use in the pre-employment examination.
We believe diversity strengthens our competitiveness and diverse working teams enable us to explore different perspectives and challenge our way of thinking, contributing to better decision-making. We work actively to increase equality and diversity in the workplace and are therefore happy to see applicants contributing to this.
The Biomaterials division offers a wide variety of pulp grades to meet the demands of paper, board, tissue, textile and hygiene product producers. We maximise the business potential of the side streams of our processes, such as tall oil and turpentine from biomass. Based on our strong innovation approach, all fractions of biomass, like lignin and sugars, hold potential for use in various applications.
Part of the bioeconomy, Stora Enso is a leading global provider of renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wooden construction and paper. We employ some 26 000 people in more than 30 countries and our shares are listed on the Helsinki (STEAV, STERV) and Stockholm (STE A, STE R) stock exchanges.
Our fiber-based materials are renewable, recyclable and fossil free. Our solutions offer low-carbon alternatives to products based on finite resources. We believe that everything that is made from fossil-based materials today can be made from a tree tomorrow.
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