KONE Corporation is a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, dedicated to improving the flow of urban life. We provide innovative and eco-efficient solutions for elevators, escalators, and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization.
Driving excellence across every stage of the lifecycle
At Commercial & Operations, we are the engine that powers KONE's success, ensuring competitiveness across all aspects of our business and throughout the building lifecycle. Our mission is pivotal: to make KONE faster, more agile, and better equipped to empower our frontline teams to deliver unparalleled service to customers.
By focusing on efficiency, innovation, and customer-centric strategies, Commercial & Operations plays a vital role in maintaining KONE’s position as an industry leader—enabling us to outpace the competition and exceed expectations every step of the way.
New Building Solutions
New Building Solutions Sales Operations is creating the next level of sales operations performance together with Area, Frontline, and Commercial & Operations teams to enable us to be #1 in all of our markets, make a step-change in New Building Solutions profitability, and drive highly profitable and sustainable service growth. Sales Operations focuses on optimizing sales teams’ efficiency and productivity involving developing processes and systems to enhance performance and drive revenue growth.
Are you interested in joining one of the world’s best employers?
We are seeking a motivated
Summer Trainee, Sales Operations Development
to our team based in Espoo, for a duration of 4 months and starting preferably in May 2025, depending on your availability. This summer trainee position is ideally suited to someone in or close to their final year of Masters degree studies, in e.g. International Business, Business Analytics or Industrial Engineering & Management. You are welcome to apply also with another similar or relevant commercial background. The work is mainly on-site at the Espoo office, but can be done also partially remotely.
As a trainee you will participate in New Building Solutions Sales Operations development programs and periodical reporting & analytics. In this role you will have a holistic view of our global business and you will collaborate with our Sales Operations team on global initiatives related to a variety of areas in pricing, tendering & ordering process, business analytics and sales development.
Key tasks and responsibilities:
Contribute to tendering and ordering development with process development activities, analytics, training and implementation support to our frontlines.
Provide support to Sales Operations global programs, related to e.g. sales KPIs, pricing development, product release updates in tendering and ordering tools, tool usage research & surveying as well as sales tool performance analytics.
Support with CRM (Salesforce) & Qlik Sense data periodical reporting and ad hoc analysis needs.
Support in other agreed tasks related to Sales Operations development.
Skills, Education and Experience:
Master’s degree student in International Business, Business Analytics, Industrial Engineering & Management or other relevant commercial field.
Solid analytical capabilities and ability to work with a vast amount of data and information in various formats.
Understanding of sales management, business development and pricing strategies.
Strong Microsoft Excel skills, advanced skills preferred.
Data modelling and visual analytics skills (PowerBI preferred).
Previous experience coordinating projects.
Strong communication and presentation skills, including capability to create informative & clear presentations and guidance materials with Office 365 tools.
Ability to work, collaborate and communicate effectively with international and local stakeholders
Full professional proficiency in English
Want to join the #PeopleFlow?
Please submit your CV and application letter as soon as possible, but by latest February 10th 2025 via our Careers site www.kone.com/jobs. We will start screening the applications already during the application period.
For further information please contact Juha Leppäaho, juha.leppaaho3@kone.com, +358 400 908406.
We look forward to hearing from you!
#LI-Hybrid
At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
Read more on www.kone.com/careers