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Are you a driven and business-minded person with forestry experience and a genuine interest in our forests and nature? Do you want to work in a customer-facing role providing advice and supporting forest owners in managing and developing their forest properties? Then you might be the one we are looking for!

As we are continuously working with the selection process, the position may be filled before the application deadline. Therefore, apply today!

About Meraskog

Meraskog is an innovative modern service company characterized by high engagement, quality, and simplicity, aiming to succeed as a team. They are the total supplier that, through their strategic tool, the compass, takes responsibility for making their customers' forest ownership more valuable. The driving force is to create long-term, sustainable, and valuable comprehensive solutions with high quality for forest owners for generations. Meraskog makes forest ownership more valuable.

Founded in 2009, Meraskog is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Northern Sweden's largest forest owners' association - Norra Skog, which has over 650 employees.

Since its inception, Meraskog has grown significantly and currently has about 30 employees operating in Härjedalen, Hälsingland, Dalarna, and Värmland. They are in an expansive phase and are now seeking reinforcement for their offices in Härjedalen and Värmland.

About the Role

As a forest advisor, you will primarily work on building good relationships with forest owners and contractors in your area and provide professional advice to customers on issues related to management, development, and sustainability. You will assist the customer in refining their properties in accordance with set goals and based on Meraskog's service offerings.

As a forest advisor, you will be part of a team of forest economists, marketing experts, and managers. Your responsibilities will include selling Meraskog's services and managing ongoing projects where you will be responsible for coordinating and planning the various parties' efforts and ensuring that everything runs according to agreements, timelines, and budgets.

In this role, you will either work from your local office or from home, and you will have great freedom to plan your days independently. This is a role that both offers and requires flexibility as you will often be out in the forest or visiting customers. In addition, you will also handle the administration of your sales and ongoing projects.

Your Profile

We are looking for someone with a genuine interest in forestry and either a forestry education or relevant work experience in the field. Ideally, you have worked with forestry advice or sales, or as a forestry planner or inspector.

As a person, you are independent and have a knack for driving your own projects, taking initiative, and planning and coordinating your tasks in a structured way. Furthermore, you have a business mindset and are a communicative person who places great importance on long-term relationship building based on trust.

Requirements for the Position

• Work experience in forestry and/or relevant forestry education such as forest engineer, forest master, or similar
• Genuine interest in forestry
• Driving license B
• Very good knowledge of Swedish in both spoken and written form

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in sales
• Knowledge of certifications such as PEFC and FSC

Other Information

Start date: As soon as possible or by agreement

Employment type: Permanent position. You will be directly employed by Meraskog with a 6-month probationary period

Location: Sveg and surrounding areas as well as Arvika and surrounding areas. You will work from the local office but have the option to work from home

The application deadline is 2024-01-19. As we are continuously working with the selection process, the position may be filled before the application deadline. You apply for the position by answering a few questions and attaching your CV or linking your LinkedIn profile. Candidates who meet the basic requirements will receive a link to a personality test and a logical reasoning test.

Read more about why we use tests in our recruitment here. Those who proceed will be invited to a digital interview. We work competency-based throughout the recruitment process.

If you have any questions about the position or the recruitment process, please feel free to contact the responsible recruiter Lina Södergren at 076-020 25 14 and [email protected].

Stegra manages the entire recruitment process, and all questions about the position are answered by Stegra.