Commercial Manager, Ash & Slag FI

Business Area Description

At Fortum we drive change where it matters. We are a European energy company providing our customers with electricity, gas, heating and cooling as well as smart solutions to improve resource efficiency. Together with our subsidiary Uniper, we are the third largest producer of CO2-free electricity in Europe. With around 20,000 professionals and activities in more than 40 countries, we have the competence and resources to grow and to drive the energy transition forward. We strive to make an impact through a culture of open leadership, curiosity and continuous improvement. Do you want to take an active role for a cleaner world? Come lead the change with us! www.fortum.com

City Solutions division is responsible for developing sustainable city solutions into a growing business for Fortum. The division comprises heating and cooling, waste-to-energy, recycling and expertise sales.

Fortum Recycling&Waste provides recycling and material efficiency services, environmental management and hazardous waste treatment in the Nordics. www.fortum.com/fortum-recycling-waste

Your role

This is an opportunity for you to be part of a business that will ensure a greener future for all of us. We are looking for a Commercial Manager to our Ash & Slag business in Finland. You will be accountable for developing Fortum’s position and customer base in the Ash and Slag market in Finland, and ensuring development of customer relationships, profitability, customer loyalty, and satisfaction. This includes all customer activities, such as contracts, negotiations, and other marketing tasks in order to contribute to maintaining and increasing the market position. You will also have a responsibility in managing mineral outlets and the productization of minerals. This includes, among other things, finding and developing new utilization options and high-value applications for these materials from external sources, and coordinating the whole utilization value chain, whether it is utilization at our own sites or customers' location.

Your main responsibility will be the following areas
• Value creation for customers through customer relationship management, offer management and contract management
• Sales execution, including planning and follow-up
• Pricing execution and management of mineral outlets and productization of minerals

We offer you

Fortum Recycling and Waste’s services are enabling a more sustainable world through increasing recycling, responsible waste handling and reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The services that you will be working with are an integral part of our strategy and, thus, this is a key role contributing to the success of our business area.

This is the start of your meaningful career journey at Fortum. We actively encourage job rotation and development activities across the company with open leadership as our guiding principle. The role provides a comprehensive view to the recycling and waste management business as well as related development - and an opportunity to take your career forward in this industry that has an ever-increasing importance in the society. You will be working with a wide group of committed and experienced experts both within Recycling and Waste business area and across Fortum.

Our values – curiosity, responsibility, integrity and respect – form the foundation of everything we do.

Your qualifications

To succeed, we need people with varying backgrounds, people who are curious and eager to make an impact. The ideal candidate for this position has previous experience in recycling and waste business and experience in sales management, key account management as well as managing 3rd party business relationships. You should understand end-to-end processes and optimization of value chains. Your approach towards business operations should be data-driven and you have high ability to see the big picture. You should have strong collaboration, communication and interpersonal skills.

As an ideal academic background, you hold a master’s degree in relevant field. We expect fluency in written and spoken Finnish and English, other languages are an asset.

Interested?

Send your application via our online recruitment tool by August 15, 2021 at the latest. More information can be given by Toni Ahtiainen, Head of Business unit in Recycling and Waste, [email protected] or tel. +358 40 577 7533.

Please apply as soon as possible, as we start contacting suitable candidates right away and the position will be filled as soon as the right candidate is found.

To be selected for the position, the candidate must go through background clearance and a health examination, including drug testing.