Summer Trainee - Segment Sustainability

We are looking for a Summer Trainee, Segment Sustainability, to join our Foodservice & Fiber Segments  team in Espoo. We offer you a challenging position with opportunities to grow in an international environment and work with cross-functional colleagues globally.  

A summer job at Huhtamaki offers you a fascinating and challenging field of work and an opportunity to utilize the skills you’ve acquired during your studies. Summer trainees are an important part of the team and an investment in the future. We want to help you grow into a skilled professional and offer you varied tasks and responsibilities according to your abilities.  

We are looking for team players with curious minds and fearless attitudes to join our journey to shape the future together. We value strong networking skills and the ability to work flexibly in a multicultural environment. On top of that, we hope you share our values Care, Dare and Deliver and passion of protecting food, people, and the planet.  

Where you’ll be

You will be located at our headquarters in Espoo, Finland and you should be within reasonable commuting distance from here. This is a primarily in-office role, with the flexibility of one remote day per week.

You will participate and assist in the following tasks:

• Manage LCA/PCF requests by coordinating and tracking incoming requests, collecting relevant data for calculations, conducting analyses using the LCA/PCF tool, preparing reports based on the results, and identifying opportunities on how we could make more out of the LCA/PCF tool.

• Manage other customer-related sustainability surveys by coordinating incoming survey requests and preparing responses, developing and maintaining a resource (e.g., FAQ document) that consolidates common customer questions and standard answers, analysing recurring sustainability topics and concerns identified through customer interactions.

• Develop sustainability KPI quarterly reporting process by identifying improvements to our existing reporting templates and streamlining the process flow to increase efficiency.

• Conduct industry benchmarking of climate transition plans, with a focus on emission reduction roadmaps, to identify best practices and insights that can help us to improve our own sustainability work.

• Training materials and website update: help to develop sustainability-related training materials and ensure their availability on the internal website.

To succeed in this role you will need:

• 2-5 years of relevant study background (e.g. sustainability, business, economics, engineering or science)

• Interest in sustainability and knowledge of key themes around climate, especially corporate GHG emission calculations and LCAs

• Attention to detail and an analytical mindset, excellent command in excel

• Curiosity and strong desire to learn about collaboration in multi-cultural and diverse environment

• Proactive way of working, desire for personal development and learning new things

• Ability to work as part of a team, while also comfortable with independent work and taking ownership

• Fluency in English (written and spoken)

The employment is fixed term, and it will start in April/May 2026 and last until the end of August 2026, with a potential short summer break period in July and potential extension after the summer period.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please submit your CV, cover letter and transcript of study records by 10th of February. We will review applications and may conduct interviews and make decisions before the application period ends. Positions will be filled as soon as we find suitable candidates. We recommend submitting your application as soon as possible.

Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet.