Taija Räikkönen

Taija Räikkönen has a diverse work experience spanning various industries and roles. Taija is currently working at Fortum as the E-commerce Director. Prior to that, they held roles at Marimekko as the Head of Digital Market Growth and Head of Ecommerce Store Operations, and at NET-A-PORTER as a Senior Retention Marketing Manager and Retention Marketing Manager. Before that, they worked as a Strategic Marketing Consultant at Kaplan RM. Taija also has experience at Zalando SE as the Manager, Customer Base Marketing (CRM) Nordics, and at Zalando as a CRM Manager and Junior CRM Manager Finland. Additionally, they have worked at Lappeenranta University of Technology as a Development Coordinator and Student Advisor, and has had freelance journalism experience at LUT, Kuulumisia. Taija also had roles as a Trainee at Paroc and as a Product Assembler at Halton Marine.

Taija Räikkönen completed their Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Industrial Management, with a major in Industrial Marketing and a minor in Environmental Engineering, at LUT University from 2006 to 2010. Taija then pursued basic studies in Psychology at the University of Helsinki from 2011 to 2012 through the Open University program. In addition, Taija studied Pedagogy at LUT University and earned 25 ECTS credits from 2010 to 2011. Before their university studies, they completed their Matriculation Examination at Puumalan yhteislukio from 2002 to 2006. Lastly, Taija was an exchange student at Kantonsschule Zürcher Oberland from 2004 to 2005.