Job Description

Are you passionate about procurement, digital tools and turning sourcing activities into efficient and compliant business solutions?

We are looking for two Procurement Specialist to join our Procurement Operations team. In this role, you will work across the Source-to-Pay process, supporting sourcing activities, enabling contracts into operational purchasing and using procurement data to identify opportunities for better compliance, efficiency and ways of working.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys combining hands-on procurement work, stakeholder and supplier collaboration, digital tools and continuous improvement.

About the role

Here you will play an important role in building the collaboration and ways of working towards the procurement community and our business teams. In your role your primary responsibilities will for example be:

• Ensuring operational procurement services are provided in time and good quality with efficiency
• Facilitating RfX events in alignment with strategic sourcing to obtain best value as well as ensuring an efficient and compliant RfX process from system perspective
• Support suppliers throughout RFx processes and help ensure effective supplier onboarding
• Translate awarded contracts into operational purchasing solutions, ensuring contracts can be effectively utilized through appropriate purchasing channels
• Use operational S2P data to identify trends, compliance gaps and improvement opportunities across supplier onboarding, sourcing, RFx activities, purchasing channels, POs and contract utilization.
• Identify recurring operational issues, including invoice and supplier compliance challenges, and support root-cause analysis and corrective actions
• Participating to optimize Source to Pay processes and developing procurement systems
• Participating pre-defined projects with varying role
• Contributing to continuous improvement, standardization and digitalization across Procurement Operations

You’ll report directly to Manager, Procurement Operations. We’re looking for a new team member to join us in Espoo, but we work flexibly in a hybrid model that adapts to both your professional and personal needs.

About you

We are looking for someone who has:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field, such as supply chain management or procurement.
• At least 2 years of experience in procurement.
• Experience with Source-to-Pay and RFx processes.
• Experience with SAP Ariba or a similar procurement platform is considered a strong advantage.
• Fluency in Finnish and English.
• For one of the two positions, fluency in Swedish is required.

You are a proactive and solution-oriented team player with a positive, open-minded and strong “can-do” attitude. You have strong communication and collaboration skills and are comfortable driving topics forward with different stakeholders. You are eager to master new tools and systems, and excited about AI, automation and the digital transformation of procurement.

We offer you

We believe in a better future and want to be involved in shaping it. Our workplace is a safe place, both physically and mentally. You will grow with professional colleagues, being trusted and free to challenge yourself. We offer comprehensive benefits, flexible working hours and a hybrid work model to support your productivity, development and wellbeing.

We are committed to building diverse teams where everyone feels included and is treated equally.

More information about our culture and benefits can be found here.

Espoo office is a smoke-free workplace.

Interested?

Submit your application in English by 22.11.2026 at the latest. We will begin actively screening already during the application period, and hire as soon as the right candidate is found. 

If you would like to hear more about the position, please contact Katariina Flinkman, Senior Manager, Procurement Enablement & Operations, katariina.flinkman@fortum.com.

We are Fortum

Fortum is a Nordic energy company. We generate and deliver reliable energy to our customers and the Nordic energy system while at the same time helping industries decarbonise their processes and grow. Our core operations comprise efficient and best-in-class low-carbon power generation, customer services, and heating and cooling. Fortum’s power generation is already 99% from renewable or nuclear sources with one of the lowest specific CO2-emissions in Europe. We are guided by our ambitious SBTi-validated emission reduction targets on our way towards net-zero by 2040. For our :4,500 employees, we commit to be a safe and inspiring workplace. Fortum's share is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. fortum.com