Jobs at UPM - The Biofore Company

Develop and optimize chemical, fuel, and refining processes with economic and sustainability focus. Model biorefinery processes, assess new installations and retrofits, support technology scale-up/scale-down, and collaborate with teams and partners across project phases.

Develop and scale biorefining process concepts from early-stage to implementation. Lead and coordinate internal and external workstreams, perform process design and simulation, collaborate with R&D, engineering, production sites and vendors, and document design packages and learnings to support commercialization of sustainable process technologies.

Manage end-to-end order processing including quoting, recording, confirming and troubleshooting orders. Ensure completeness and compliance, maintain material/package master data, support continuous improvement and internal projects, and communicate with stakeholders and customers to enable smooth production, delivery and billing.

Lead and coach a regional field sales team of Territory Sales Managers to drive commercial priorities, improve pipeline management and sales execution, support high-value opportunities, enforce pricing discipline, and conduct performance and territory reviews. Role is remote, requires frequent field time and customer visits, and supports profitable growth through strategic and hands-on leadership.

Lead and develop UPM's legal team in Uruguay, provide commercial and regulatory legal advice across Latin America, build legal policies and governance, manage legal risks, support business growth, represent legal function in key initiatives, and ensure compliance across Fibres operations.

Lead and develop a field sales team of Territory Sales Managers to drive commercial execution, pipeline management, pricing discipline, and profitable growth. Coach on customer visits and large opportunities, run performance and territory reviews, translate strategy into measurable goals, and use data and analysis to improve sales effectiveness.

Lead and coach a regional field sales team to drive commercial execution and profitable growth. Translate strategy into goals, strengthen pipeline and pricing discipline, support high-value opportunities, conduct field visits and ride-alongs, run performance and territory reviews, and foster a culture of accountability and development.

Maintain and update product and packaging master data, support order entry and PMH requests, coordinate branding/logo codes, streamline master data, propose solutions for deviations, and collaborate with supply, sourcing, product management and mills to support supply chain projects.

Perform laboratory-scale emulsion polymerization to develop and modify dispersions, design research plans, document work, develop testing methods for dispersions and polymer films, monitor process and product quality, collaborate with suppliers, and analyze patents and literature.

Lead safe, efficient woodhandling operations to meet safety, production, quality, and availability targets. Drive continuous improvement, coordinate maintenance and contractors, reduce downtime and losses, improve equipment reliability, manage costs and materials, and develop operator skills through training and coaching.

Lead and optimize Fiberline operations (Wood Handling, Fiberline, Drying Machines) to meet production, quality, safety, and sustainability targets. Drive continuous improvement, manage costs and maintenance strategies, own FSC/PEFC Chain of Custody compliance, develop and coach the team, and collaborate with mill functions to ensure reliable, efficient production.

Manage logistics invoicing and claims operations including settlement of claims, handling port/warehouse damage reports, billing for reconditioning and recovery costs, settling insurance cases, tracking KPIs and service provider performance, and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders.

Optimize and develop coating processes to meet quality and efficiency targets. Lead continuous improvement, train staff, create ISO-compliant process documentation, support maintenance, commissioning, supplier quality, and customer complaint resolution. Participate in coating projects and product transfers.

Provide HR administrative support across the employment life cycle, advise employees and managers via ServiceNow/phone/chat, maintain data in Workday, prepare HR documents and reports, cooperate with HR business partners and external providers, and participate in HR projects.

The Supply Chain Planner leads inventory and supply planning, translating demand into supply plans while collaborating cross-functionally. Responsibilities include managing production flows, supporting continuous improvement initiatives, and ensuring alignment with service level targets.

Lead regulatory e-invoicing and e-reporting initiatives: analyze regulatory impacts, act as country SME, manage implementations, align stakeholders, maintain compliance templates and reconciliations with SAP financial records, monitor transactional data, troubleshoot, and drive continuous improvement using automation and AI where applicable.

Lead global strategic supply chain planning and Sales & Operations Planning for UPM Adhesive Materials. Drive Integrated Business Planning, network optimization, supply chain modeling, transformation initiatives, and build a high-performing global planning team while collaborating with international stakeholders to implement supply chain strategy.

Design, maintain, and standardize logical and physical data models to support analytics, BI, and process intelligence. Translate business requirements into reusable, scalable datasets; apply data governance, metadata, and lineage; ensure data quality and performance; contribute to modelling standards and incident resolution.

Manage and administer BlackLine global solution: user and access management, reconciliation templates, task calendars, transaction matching, journal templates and workflows. Provide user support, execute mass updates, run matching engines, and collaborate with Solution and Global Process Owners to identify development opportunities and continuous improvements.

Manage the inbound material supply to operations, ensuring availability, efficiency, and compliance while mitigating risks and driving continuous improvement in processes.