Manager, Sustainability

Location:Espoo, ES, FI

Country/Region: FI

Job Area: Marketing

Business Unit: Sustainable Growth

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This is for you who wants to have a real impact on creating a healthier planet for our children every day. At Neste, you will be working for the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and a forerunner in developing renewable and circular feedstock solutions for polymers and chemicals. Let’s create transformation for a sustainable future together.

Do you want to support leading the transformation towards sustainable business operations?

We are looking for you

Manager, Sustainability

to join our Sustainable Growth team in Espoo.

Neste’s Marketing & Services business unit is responsible for transforming innovations into customer value in Finland and the Baltics. We are changing from product orientated business into a preferred partner for sustainable solutions helping companies achieve carbon neutrality.

As a Manager, Sustainability, you will work closely with the Marketing & Services teams, corporate sustainability and public affair teams to support the development of our carbon neutrality offering. Our work combines accountability, cooperation, and the desire to develop and renew.

Reasons to join

Real impact right now. We work in an inspiring and evolving business environment, where everything we do serves one purpose: to create a healthier planet for our children. To drive a growing impact as a global leader in renewable and circular solutions we live by our values every day; we care, we have courage, we cooperate.

Safety and caring. We value safety always and everywhere. We want our work to feel good and do good. At Neste, we nurture a culture where everyone is welcome and feels safe, respected and encouraged to be their unique true selves.


Exciting growth. Transformation brings new possibilities and fosters our courage and curiosity. As a global growing company we support personal development with versatile learning and career opportunities. Collaboration is the key, and we believe in flexible, smart ways of working.

In addition, our benefits for employees in Finland include, for example, a personnel fund as part of the overall remuneration, good occupational health care, and an extensive membership in a sickness or health insurance fund. We also support leisure time activities, e.g. by offering benefits for sports and culture.

More about the job

Your role in our team

• Work as a leading expert on Sustainability topics for Marketing & Services
• Follow relevant EU and country legislation, translate legal requirements to needed actions and business opportunities or challenges
• Propose sustainability targets, progress follow up
• Work closely with other teams within Marketing & Services to support them in creating value added solutions and services
• Support sales to deepen customer relations and support customers to understand sustainability requirements and implications to their businesses

The best combination to success in this role

• Deep understanding of sustainability and the commercial value it can offer to us and our customers
• Thorough understanding of customers’ Net Zero goals and how to best support them with both existing and new solutions.
• Ability to develop and commercialise new business opportunities
• Strong influencing and communication skills in English (among other things, excellent presentation skills and ability to prepare quality presentation materials, represent M&S externally with stakeholders), Finnish is an advantage
• Strategic orientation and visionary thinking - ability to anticipate and plan for longer-term macro trends and turn them into concrete business opportunities
• Ability to create links within M&S and with other BUs and manage several external partnerships
• Min Bachelor degree in a relevant field

We also value

• Reliable and credible individual with curious and visionary mindset yet being able to get things done and bring tangible business results
• Cooperative orientation with open-minded and positive attitude
• Ability to perform well under pressure and have high tolerance for stress
• Marketing background for content creation for sustainability topics

Let’s get you started

Wondering whether we are a match or not? Take a short test at neste.com/game.

We look forward to receiving your CV and application with a salary request by September 19, 2024. If you have any questions regarding the process or the position, please get in touch with Ilze Pērkone, Head of Sustainability & Marketing by e-mail: ilze.perkone@neste.com.

The recruitment process will include interviews and a possible aptitude assessment. The person selected for the position must pass a health examination including a drug test. A security clearance is obtained with your consent.

About Neste

Neste creates solutions for combating climate change and accelerating a shift to a circular economy. With over 75 years of refining expertise, we are now the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and a forerunner in developing renewable and circular feedstock solutions for polymers and chemicals. We have set aspirational targets for climate, biodiversity, human rights, as well as our supply chain and raw materials. Our ambition is to make the Porvoo oil refinery in Finland the most sustainable refinery in Europe. Together with our partners we are aiming at a carbon neutral and nature positive value chain by 2040. Our success is created by 5,600 professionals working in 16 countries. Read more: neste.com. Get inspired by our story.