Logistics Specialist
Your mission: end-to-end delivery excellence. Join us!
To continue to fuel Swappie’s profitable growth and advance our mission of making refurbished electronics mainstream, we are seeking a highly organized and proactive Logistics Specialist to join our Operations Support function. This is a fixed-term parental leave cover for 12 months.
In this role, your primary mission is to ensure a successful, friction-free delivery experience for Swappie’s customers and drive efficiency across our operations. If you are ready to take ownership of complex problem-solving and contribute directly to our operational excellence, this is your chance to leave a significant fingerprint on Swappie's core customer journey. 🌏💚
What You'll Work On (Key Responsibilities)
Reporting to the Logistics Manager, you will be the bridge between customer satisfaction and operational speed. Your work will involve strategic analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and hands-on issue resolution. You will:
Manage Service Providers: Ensure service levels agreed with Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) are consistently met, troubleshooting and solving operational logistics issues, and acting as the key escalation point for LSPs.
Problem-Solving & Analysis: Systematically analyze performance data to find gaps, identify the root causes of problems and propose practical solutions. You will distinguish between critical and minor details to prioritize tasks and manage resources effectively.
Stakeholder Communication: Cultivate trustworthy relationships with LSPs and internal teams (Operations, Customer Service). Proactively communicate project progress and changes, actively gathering input to ensure mutual understanding.
Operational Efficiency: Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by participating in logistics-related development projects that enhance the network and create innovative concepts.
We Would Love to Hear From You If You Have...
Your success will be driven by a blend of practical knowledge, analytical rigor, and a proactive mindset.
Experience & Education: 3+ years of relevant work experience (logistics, transportation, or supply chain) and a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
Logistics Expertise: A solid understanding of logistics industry principles, especially international parcel logistics, trade compliance, and Incoterms.
Communication & Collaboration: Strong, confident communication skills for both internal and external stakeholders.
Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills: Excellent analytical abilities, able to logically identify root causes and propose practical improvement actions.
Ownership Mindset: A proactive attitude, self-motivation, and a strong sense of ownership and accountability for your own work.
Adaptability: The proven ability to manage multiple priorities, quickly adapt to changing situations, and meet deadlines, even under pressure.
Language Skills: Fluent English is a must (our company language). Other languages are considered a plus, especially German!
Scroll down ⬇️ and read “Why pursue a career with Swappie” but in addition we offer:
Measurable Impact & Ownership: You will have strong ownership over your domain and clear, defined quarterly (Q) targets. You are a key person responsible for solving performance issues and fine-tuning our entire shipping experience for Swappie customers.
High Visibility & Collaboration: Logistics touches many areas of Swappie’s business, guaranteeing lots of cross-functional collaboration.
Flexible Work & Culture: A supportive, low-hierarchy team environment paired with flexible working hours and remote working options.
End-to-End Delivery Excellence: You are empowered to identify bottlenecks, find root causes, and implement solutions, giving you direct responsibility for improving key metrics like on-time delivery and cost-per-unit.
The chance to have a direct, visible impact on our mission and the customer experience by ensuring our deliveries are smooth and seamless.
Practicalities
📍 Location: Helsinki, Finland.
📝 Contract: Full-time, fixed-term parental leave cover for 12 months.
📆 Start Date: Ideally December ‘25/January ‘26.
⏰ Application deadline: Please apply by 19th of October.
Questions? 🤔 recruitment@swappie.com will happily reply. Kindly note that we don’t accept job applications via email.
Does this sound like an exciting opportunity for you? If yes, we would love to hear from you! We'll start with interviews already during the application period.
This is how the recruitment process will look like:
The process is designed to be a transparent, two-way assessment, ensuring we find the right match for our team.
- Intro with Talent Acquisition Partner (online, 30 min):
This is a friendly chat to introduce Swappie, give you an overview of the role's scope, and understand your core motivation, background, and alignment with our culture.
- Meet the Hiring Manager (online, 60 min): A deeper conversation focused on your experience and competencies. This is your chance to also ask questions and understand the role better.
- Skills Assessment & Culture Discussion with Colleagues (online or on-site, 60 min): This stage has two parts: a Skills Assessment (where we will dive into a real-life logistics challenge or scenario to assess your analytical and problem-solving skills) and a Culture Discussion with your potential teammates to ensure a strong fit and collaboration style.
- Department
- Production & Logistics
- Locations
- Helsinki, Finland
- Remote status
- Hybrid

Helsinki, Finland
Why pursue your career with Swappie?
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Join an ambitious, global team
Swappie is a multi-tiered organization powered by a diverse group of professionals with a broad range of skills. We're happy to employ people from 73 different nationalities in offices located in Helsinki, Tallinn, Leipzig and Berlin. Our working language is English.
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Bring purpose to your everyday
By buying and selling refurbished smartphones, Swappie is shaping the future of consumer electronics and actively reducing e-waste – the largest growing form of waste globally. When we talk about doing good – this is what we mean. And you can help. Get inspired about our positive climate impact by reading our Environmental Impact Report.
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Benefit from a culture of trust
Enjoy the freedom to manage your work in ways that suit both you and Swappie. Benefit from the sharing of information, learnings, plans and achievements. We're all in this together.
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Grow and develop your skillset
Swappie offers a wide range of career development opportunities, as well as the chance to benefit from technical training designed to improve your professional skills. There's room for you to grow at Swappie.
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Belong and be yourself
Our strength as a company comes from the diverse group of people we're proud to employ. Whoever you are – you're welcome at Swappie. We work actively to create an environment where everyone feels safe and welcome.
About Swappie
Swappie is the #1 online destination for buying and selling refurbished iPhones in Europe.
A purpose-driven tech scale-up, Swappie is home to 800 ambitious, international talents serving 1M+ customers in 11 countries across Europe. Annual revenue currently tops €207M in a market with huge opportunities for growth. Refurbished is the business of the future and Swappie is a frontrunner powered by bright, empathetic minds committed to doing good.
Launched by two friends in 2016, Swappie is on a mission to change consumer behaviour and make buying refurbished electronics mainstream. Starting in Europe, and then worldwide – Swappie gives consumers the opportunity to make more environmentally friendly purchasing decisions simply and affordably. Our business is dynamic, exciting and constantly developing, with a broad range of skills required every day across the organization.
Swappie has received consistent recognition for its commitment to solving important sustainability challenges. It has also been recognised by The Financial Times in 2022 as the fastest growing startup in Europe, received The Finnish Innovation Fund's award for contribution to the circular economy – and appeared on Wired's list of hottest startups in Helsinki.
Visit our company page to read more about Swappie's story and the circular economy.
About Swappie
Join our mission of making refurbished electronics mainstream! 🚀
The ambition of a circular economy for technology is at the root of everything we do, and is what drives us on our mission. Our people believe tech doesn’t have an expiry date, and that great tech shouldn’t cost us the earth.