Logistics Specialist

Metsä Board

Metsä Group is a successful forest industry group with roots in the Finnish forest - Our parent company is a cooperative of over 90,000 forest owners. Metsä Group's paperboard business Metsä Board produces lightweight high-quality folding boxboard and food service paperboards, as well as white kraftliners. The pure fresh fibre used in our products is a renewable, safe and recyclable raw material from northern forests. Metsä Board’s shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki. 

We welcome people from diverse backgrounds and different stages of life. Metsä has space and opportunities for many kinds of talent, regardless of age, gender, ethnic background, sexual orientation, disability or other characteristics – Metsä is for all. Read more: metsagroup.com/metsaforall.

This recruitment is carried out anonymously

Job description

This recruitment is carried out anonymously.

Metsä Board, Europe’s leading producer of premium fresh-fibre based paperboards and innovative and sustainable packaging solutions, is looking for a Logistics Specialist with English to join our Last Leg Logistics Team in Metsä Board’s European Supply Chain Centre (SCC) in Gdańsk.

Your role in the future Metsä

As a Logistics Specialist, you will play a key role in ensuring smooth and efficient delivery operations across international logistics flows. You will cooperate closely with internal stakeholders, customers, warehouses, and logistics vendors to secure high-quality transport execution and continuous service improvement.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating and monitoring daily delivery and transport operations
• Proactively following up deliveries to ensure on-time and in-full performance (OTIF)
• Tracking shipments and managing transport deviations, delays, and claims
• Ensuring logistics service providers operate according to agreed service levels and distribution channels
• Supporting resolution of delivery and transport-related customer issues
• Cooperating closely with sales, customer service, warehouses, mills, and logistics vendors
• Supporting transport planning and optimization, including payload and loading capacity utilization
• Preparing operational reports, KPIs, and performance analyses
• Monitoring transport costs and supporting corrective actions when needed
• Supporting warehouse-related logistics tasks and inventory activities where applicable
• Participating in process improvement, digitalization, and logistics development initiatives
• Working in line with team targets, company policies, procedures, and values

What is required from you:

• Minimum 1–2 years of experience in logistics, supply chain, or transport operations
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Service- and solution-oriented mindset with strong problem-solving abilities
• Good organizational, prioritization, and decision-making skills
• Experience in shipment tracking and transport coordination
• Basic knowledge of international logistics regulations and transport documentation (e.g. CMR, Incoterms)
• Good analytical and reporting skills
• Ability to work in a dynamic international environment
• Good knowledge of MS Office; SAP or other ERP system knowledge will be an advantage
• Cargo loading capacity planning skills

Nice to have:

• Experience in cooperation with logistics vendors and carriers
• Experience in warehouse or distribution operations
• Knowledge of transport performance KPIs and logistics cost analysis
• Continuous improvement mindset and interest in process optimization

Why Metsä?

We offer you a great opportunity to take part in developing the future of the forest industry. If you believe in renewal and want to promote the increased use of fossil-free materials, you're coming to the right place.

Metsä Group’s values are responsible profitability, reliability, cooperation and renewal. If you can relate to these values, this might be the job for you.

What is offered by the company

• Work in an international environment in a centrally located office in Gdańsk

• Growing in the role with intensive on-boarding and training

• Stable job and cooperation with a friendly and high qualified team

• We will make sure that you have training that will ensure your proper development

• Multiple benefits, including lunch card, sports card, private health care and life insurance

• Hybrid work (after training period – 2 days per week working from home allowed)

• Attractive location of the office: 4 minutes to SKM, trams and buses.

Anonymous recruitment - how it works

This recruitment is carried out anonymously. Therefore, the following information will be hidden from the recruiters until the interview stage: name, date of birth, contact details, gender, mother tongue, dates of education and name of the educational institution. Attachments (CVs) are also hidden. HR recruiters have access to the applicants' contact details at the stage when they start inviting applicants for interviews.

Our recruiting system will guide you through the application process. You will be asked for personal data, but all the above mentioned information is hidden from the recruiters until the interview stage.

The application form includes questions to help you to present your skills and experience anonymously. Please reply to all questions to make your competences and skills visible. You can attach a CV to your application, but it is hidden at the initial stage of the recruitment process. If you are invited for an interview, recruiters will have access to your CV to support the interview.

Read more about our anonymous recruitment at https://www.metsagroup.com/careers/work-with-us/anonymous-recruitment/

Apply for the job!

If you feel this could be the right opportunity for you, please submit your application using the link "Apply". If you have not yet filled your Career profile in Workday, click Go to your profile and fill in Job History and Education information in Career tab. Also add job descriptions in job history. Then return to Apply for the open position. Please note that attachments are not visible in anonymous recruitment, so it is important to complete your career profile in Workday. Please submit your application as soon as possible, as we will start processing the applications already during the application period. Include your CV and salary request. The personal data of internal applicants is also hidden, as explained above. The search is open until 21.06.2026. Good luck!