Vice President, Sustainable Forest Management

The new Forest division, which started operations in the beginning of 2020, includes Stora Enso’s Swedish forest assets and the 41% share of Tornator with the majority of its forest assets located in Finland. The division also includes wood supply operations in Finland, Sweden, Russia and the Baltic countries. The division’s key focus areas are sustainable forest management, competitive wood supply to Stora Enso’s mills and innovation. As a major player in the bioeconomy, access to wood is critical for Stora Enso. Today, Stora Enso is one of the biggest private forest owners in the world.
We are increasing our capabilities in Sustainable Forest Management and are now looking for a Vice President, who will be supporting the Forest Division’s Sustainability Strategy.
We offer you a challenging position in our Forest Division with real opportunities to influence and have an impact on our business success. You will be working together with and coordinating a network of sustainability experts throughout Stora Enso. You will have the possibility to build the content and storyline of Stora Enso’s forest management by evaluating, developing and communicating present sustainable forest management practises and utilizing the latest research to improve and increase both efficiency of business and preservation of biodiversity.


Your responsibilities
- Develop, improve and implement sustainable forest management strategies and methods in a wide perspective in all our forest operations, including aspects to protect and develop biodiversity and actions to combat and mitigate climate change.

Requirements
- University degree in forestry, forest ecology, forest biology or similar
- 10+ years of working experience in the area
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- Practical and solution oriented
- Strong existing network and ability to network both inside a matrix organisation and with external stakeholders
- Independent in work and able to present information in a professional manner, in international context
- Deep knowledge of forestry, forest biology and forest ecology, with special focus on boreal ecosystems
- Knowledge of climate change mitigation, CO2 calculations, LCA, afforestation projects evaluations
- Understanding and experience of forest certification
- Readiness to travel


Location
Sweden or Finland


Additional Information and application
In this recruitment we are working with Novare Executive Search as our recruitment partner. In order to have a consistent and fair process, we will only accept applications submitted to Novare through this e-mail storaenso.sfm@novare.se. Please submit your application to Novare latest by 15.08.2020. Questions can be directed to Ida Högberg, ida.hogberg@novare.se .
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.
Part of the bioeconomy, Stora Enso is a leading global provider of renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wooden construction and paper. We employ some 25 000 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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