Forest Specialist Job in Karttula, Finland | Stora Enso

Stora Enso is recruiting a Forest Specialist for its Vesanto–Tervo–Keitele purchasing area, with an office in Karttula, Kuopio or Suonenjoki in North Savo, Finland. The position is suited to a forestry professional who can work independently while managing relationships with forest owners. Previous sector experience, forestry studies and fluent written and spoken Finnish form the stated foundation for this customer-focused assignment.

Within Stora Enso Wood Supply, the Forest Specialist supports Finnish wood procurement as part of the Jyväskylä purchasing team. Day-to-day work brings together forest-owner relationships, wood-purchase planning, timber transactions and forest-service activity in the local purchasing area. The vacancy particularly aligns with applicants who combine persistence and customer orientation with an organised approach to forestry work and an interest in developing comprehensive customer-management capability.

Opportunity Details

Overview of the Vacancy

Location, Sector, and Role Context

The Forest Specialist role contributes to the renewable-materials production chain by working closely with forest owners in the Vesanto–Tervo–Keitele area. It sits in Stora Enso Wood Supply’s Finnish wood-procurement activities and is part of the Jyväskylä purchasing team. A central purpose is to manage forest-owner relationships in a comprehensive manner while planning purchases and promoting timber sales against agreed area targets. The work also includes advice, transactions and the preparation of harvesting stands in the relevant information system. These combined responsibilities make the role relevant to someone with practical forestry-sector experience and higher-level forestry studies.

Alongside purchase planning, the post covers the local marketing, sale and planning of forest services. The Forest Specialist keeps customer records current, administers the customer programme and carries out follow-up marketing after sales activity. The vacancy therefore calls for someone comfortable moving between structured system work and direct interaction with forest owners. Stora Enso specifies independent working, resilience, persistence and a service-minded outlook among the essential qualities. Fluent Finnish is required for both written and spoken communication, while English is described as an advantage rather than a condition of the role.

About the Employer: Stora Enso (Stora Enso Oyj, Wood Supply Finland)

Organization and Relevant Services

Verified Employer Overview

Stora Enso develops paper-based packaging materials, wood products and biomaterials. The company states that its purpose is to replace non-renewable materials with renewable alternatives and to advance the circular bioeconomy. It reports approximately 19,000 employees globally, with operations and customers across Europe, Asia and the Americas. For this Forest Specialist position, the most directly relevant part of the organisation is Wood Supply, which is included in Stora Enso’s Wood and Energy business area alongside Wood Products and Energy. The role is connected to the company’s Finnish wood-procurement activity.

Stora Enso says its history includes more than 700 years of experience working with wood. Its Wood Supply activity provides wood to Nordic Stora Enso production units and to business-to-business partners. The company identifies forest planning, harvesting, logistics, terminal operations and silviculture as activities within Wood Supply. That context explains why the Karttula-area role includes both relationship management and practical planning around timber purchases and harvesting stands. The employer also says Wood Supply creates value for private forest owners through sustainable forest management and customer service, which corresponds with the role’s emphasis on advice and ongoing customer contact.

Professional Setting and Role Context

Work Environment, Operations, and Facilities

In Finland, Stora Enso identifies locations including Heinola, Helsinki, Imatra, Joensuu, Joutseno, Kalajoki, Kemi, Lahti, Oulu and Varkaus. For this vacancy, the available office locations are Karttula, Kuopio or Suonenjoki, all linked to the North Savo setting stated for the post. Stora Enso says it uses traceability and recognised certification schemes where applicable. The published information places the Forest Specialist in Finnish wood procurement and the Jyväskylä purchasing team, while the duties focus on the specified southern Vesanto–Tervo–Keitele purchasing area. No further site-facility or work-mode detail is disclosed for this position.

Stora Enso’s general careers information lists professional development, various insurances, health and wellness programmes, membership discounts and volunteer opportunities. It also lists flexible and remote working where possible; that general statement does not specify an arrangement for this Forest Specialist vacancy. The vacancy itself states that comprehensive onboarding is available and describes varied duties through which the successful applicant can develop as a comprehensive customer-management professional. Stora Enso also states that it supports physical and mental wellbeing and that employees should return home healthy every day. These statements provide the published context for the role without adding unlisted terms for the Karttula-area position.

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Open Positions

1. Forest Specialist

Official title: Metsäasiantuntija, Vesanto–Tervo–Keitele — Forest Specialist, Vesanto–Tervo–Keitele

Location: Karttula, North Savo, Finland (office in Karttula, Kuopio or Suonenjoki) | Employment information: Full-time temporary contract

This Forest Specialist post centres on the connection between forest-owner service and the planning required for Finnish wood procurement. In the Vesanto–Tervo–Keitele purchasing area, the specialist is expected to handle relationships across their full course, from advice and timber transactions to customer-programme activity and after-sales contact. The job additionally requires attention to agreed targets, forestry-service activity and accurate information-system entries for harvesting stands. Its place in the Jyväskylä purchasing team means the work is described as specialist wood-procurement activity, with customer-oriented communication remaining integral to the assignment.

Responsibilities

• Oversee forest-owner customer relationships from initial contact through continuing service activity.
• Plan wood purchases and promote timber sales in line with the purchasing area’s agreed targets.
• Provide forestry-related advice directly to forest owners.
• Handle timber transactions as part of the local procurement work.
• Prepare harvesting stands and record the required information in the designated system.
• Promote, sell and organise the planning of forest services within the area.
• Keep the customer relationship management system accurately maintained.
• Administer the customer programme connected with the purchasing-area customer base.
• Undertake marketing activity following completed sales work.
• Perform wood-procurement specialist duties as a member of the Jyväskylä purchasing team.

Qualifications

• Previous professional experience in the forestry sector is required.
• Studies in forestry at university of applied sciences or university level are required.
• The role requires an ability to take an independent approach to work.
• Persistence and resilience are required for the position.
• A customer-service-oriented attitude is required when working with forest owners.
• Fluent Finnish communication, both written and spoken, is required.
• Preferred: A positive, development-oriented approach and strong interpersonal interaction are advantageous.
• Preferred: Willingness to work collaboratively with forest owners is advantageous.
• Preferred: English-language skills are considered an advantage.

Skills and Competencies

• Forest-owner relationship management is used to provide comprehensive ongoing customer service.
• Wood-purchase planning supports activity against the purchasing area’s agreed targets.
• Timber-sales marketing is applied alongside local purchase planning.
• Forest advisory capability is used when assisting forest owners.
• Timber-transaction handling supports the role’s procurement responsibilities.
• Information-system use supports the planning and entry of harvesting stands.
• Forest-service marketing, sales and planning support activity in the local area.
• Customer relationship management and customer-programme administration support accurate customer follow-up.
• Independent working and interpersonal communication support contact with forest owners and the purchasing team.

Benefits and Employment Information

• The vacancy states that comprehensive onboarding is provided for this role.
• The vacancy says the international company offers interesting career paths and room to grow.
• Stora Enso states that it supports physical and mental wellbeing.
• The employer states that employees should return home healthy every day.
• Its wider careers material identifies development, insurances, health and wellness programmes, membership discounts and volunteer opportunities.
• The same general careers information lists flexible and remote working where possible, without specifying that arrangement for this Forest Specialist position.
• The Forest Specialist appointment is full-time and fixed-term (temporary), for roughly one year; the vacancy does not publish a salary.

Application Guidance

Prepare a Focused Application

CV, Evidence, Documents, and Interview Preparation

As general preparation guidance, applicants can map their forestry-sector experience against the role’s practical sequence of forest-owner contact, purchase planning, advice and timber transactions. It may be useful to prepare concise, accurate examples showing how an independently handled forestry task was organised, how customer communication was approached and how persistence was maintained during a demanding piece of work. Candidates can also be ready to discuss relevant university of applied sciences or university-level forestry studies. This is preparation guidance only; applicants can keep their preparation focused on the experience and studies stated for the role.

For a conversation about this position, general preparation can focus on how forest-owner service relates to timber sales, wood-purchase plans and forest-service activity in a purchasing area. Applicants may wish to rehearse a clear Finnish-language explanation of relevant customer interaction, because the vacancy requires fluent written and spoken Finnish. It can also help to outline experience of maintaining accurate records or using an information system when planning harvesting stands, where applicable. English can be presented as an additional capability, since it is named as advantageous. No licence requirement is stated for the vacancy.

• Prepare a CV in English that accurately summarises forestry-sector experience and relevant studies.
• Select examples of forest-owner communication that demonstrate a customer-service-oriented approach.
• Outline an independently managed forestry task that shows persistence and resilience.
• Review experience of wood-purchase planning, timber transactions or forest-service work that is relevant to the post.
• Be ready to describe, where applicable, how harvesting-stand information has been planned or recorded in an information system.
• Prepare to communicate professional experience clearly in Finnish, in both spoken and written form.

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How to Apply

Submit Your Application Through the Verified Route

Apply Through the Official Employer Portal

Prepare a CV in English that accurately presents forestry-sector experience, forestry studies and relevant customer-facing work. Use the official employer application portal opened by the button below these instructions to submit an application for the Forest Specialist role. The Stora Enso portal button becomes active after a brief ten-second wait. The vacancy does not specify further documents to prepare.