Graduate, IT

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We are now looking for Graduate for UPM IT’s Digital and Data Management Office (DDMO). Home location of the position will be in Helsinki or Tampere, Finland.

The UPM Graduate Programme gives your career a whirlwind start with many opportunities for the future development. During the programme you gain an international work experience and develop your skills to a new level. Experienced and inspiring UPM manager mentors provide coaching for the trainees throughout the programme. At UPM, we make a positive impact by transforming the world of materials with sustainable alternatives to fossil-based products. Read more at www.upm.com/graduate and join us on this exciting path.

Greetings from UPM IT CIO

UPM Graduate Programme is an exciting chance for you to join a global IT community and see the entire spectrum of IT work by participating in diverse topics. You will join a team where everyone can be who they are, and individuals’ unique strengths complement each other. We will support you to make your learning experience great. At the same time, we are eager to learn also from your fresh ideas and welcome you to contribute to our team’s success and have fun together! – Turkka Keskinen, UPM IT CIO

What you will do

In this programme, you can participate in multiple assignments across IT organisation, such as AI, service design, scrum master, cybersecurity, cloud, data management, project management or special assignments within various IT teams. Your homebase will be the Digital and Data Management Office (DDMO), where we help our businesses in leveraging data and AI to drive transformation. The final focus will be defined based on your interests and experience. Through this programme you will gain valuable expertise and learnings for your future career.

• You will learn about working in a multinational, diverse, truly global IT organisation. We are a high-performing, innovative and value-driven community. You can learn and grow based on your interest areas so that UPM IT will also gain back from your fresh thinking and ideas.

• You will kickstart your career with a year of intense learning of IT focusing on data, digitalization and AI. This is also a great opportunity to gain general understanding of UPM businesses and global functions, like finance, HR and sourcing.

• You will be part of the approximately 230 globally spread IT professionals strengthened by our trusted partners and suppliers for technology, services and development. Our mission is to bring world-class expertise to each UPM business with a well-adapted offering of integrated services and operating processes.

Who you are

• You have a master’s degree from a relevant field of studies (e.g. information technology or business)

• You passionate about AI, data or digitalization

• You have excellent analytical skills

• You have good interpersonal skills

• You have an innovative and initiative mindset

• International experience is seen as an asset

• You are fluent in spoken and written English

This is what we offer for you

• Meaningful job: We are proud of what we do. Our work highlights the expertise of our personnel, the high quality of our products and the company's values.

• Inspired and motivated teams: We have highly skilled workforce. We are a multifaceted, international organization that works as a team to achieve our shared objectives.

• Development opportunities: With us you can build up your expertise. We provide opportunities to support your development throughout every stage of your career.

• Responsibility for people and environment: Our ethical principles embrace people as well as the environment. We are always striving to build a more sustainable future.

Additional information

Please note that if the international circumstances allow, the UPM Graduate Programme will send you for assignments in other UPM locations. 

The UPM Graduate Programme is a paid internship.

For more information about the position, please contact Jukka Laitinen, Director, Digital and Data Management Office: tel. +358 401 845 155 on December 19 at 12-13:30 EET, January 7 at 11-14 EET, January 10 at 14:10-15 EET.

Are you interested in this position? Send your application via the link and attach your CV and cover letter latest by January 31, 2025. Please note that we will go through the applications already during the application period and we might invite candidates for interviews before the end of the application time. 

For support with submitting your application, please contact our HR Service Center: [email protected] or tel. +358204146600.

A security background check may be performed for those selected to UPM positions, in accordance with the company recruitment guidelines and the Security Clearance Act 726/2014.

UPM is a non-smoking workplace in Finland. 

UPM IT is a high-performing, innovative and value-driven community strengthened by IT professionals from suppliers.

IT ensures business continuity and improves productivity by maintaining business-critical IT services. We create value for UPM in joint business and IT digitalization efforts applying new technologies and partner ecosystems. We enable UPM transformation by developing capabilities for the changing business environment.

The success of IT is rooted in the know-how of digitalisation and emerging technologies, and competences such as enterprise architecture design, project and change management, compliance and cybersecurity.

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