Are you a proactive and analytical professional ready to shape how demand meets supply on a global scale? Join a dynamic Sales and Operations Planning function where you lead demand and supply planning for the Boiler Business. You work at the sales, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain to balance capacity, cost, and delivery performance. You turn complex data into clear plans, enabling efficient operations and strong customer outcomes.
This is your opportunity to influence strategic decisions, drive collaboration across teams, and contribute to a high impact, international business environment.
You prepare and maintain manufacturing demand forecasts using inputs from capital and service sales.
You create and manage sales schedules during the sales phase, balancing demand with production, procurement, engineering, logistics, and capacity.
You assess manufacturability and review material requirements together with manufacturing teams.
You build production and capacity scenarios, including cost and financial impact, based on forecasts.
You analyze risks, identify bottlenecks, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize delivery plans and performance.
You have experience in manufacturing, planning, project management, or cost estimation related to boiler pressure parts.
You bring strong analytical skills and are confident with planning tools such as Excel or Power BI.
You have experience supporting sales phase planning, including cost, capacity, and schedule evaluations.
You understand capacity and resource planning across engineering and production.
You communicate clearly in English, both written and spoken.
You bring a structured and proactive mindset and enjoy turning data into actionable plans. You collaborate effectively across teams and communicate insights that influence decisions. You focus on optimizing processes, balancing cost and capacity, and anticipating risks before they impact delivery.
We also expect you to align with Valmet’s Leadership Principles - practical behaviors that guide how we lead, collaborate, and succeed together:
Take accountability – Act with ownership, set clear expectations, and follow through
Lead with courage – Champion change, try bold ideas, and learn quickly
Build on trust – Listen to understand, be open, and create psychological safety
Collaborate for growth – Work across boundaries, value diverse perspectives, and focus on customer value
Join a Sales and Operations Planning team that works closely with sales, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chains to align demand and supply across the Boiler Business. The team focuses on balancing production capacity, improving forecasting accuracy, and enabling efficient project delivery. You will work in a collaborative, international environment where your insights directly impact business performance and customer satisfaction.
Valmet offers an inspiring and challenging position with opportunities for growth and development in a global network. You will benefit from a supportive team environment, modern tools, and flexible ways of working that support both your professional and personal development.
Did we catch your interest? For further information, please contact Keijo Kivimäki, Director, Sales and Operation Planning, at [email protected]
Last application date by August 17, 2026, by filling in our online application form.
Please also attach your CV to the application.
We will start interviews before the application deadline, so please submit your interest at your earliest convenience.
Skills Required
- Experience in manufacturing, planning, project management, or cost estimation related to boiler pressure parts
- Strong analytical skills and proficiency with planning tools (Excel, Power BI)
- Experience supporting sales-phase planning including cost, capacity, and schedule evaluations
- Understanding of capacity and resource planning across engineering and production
- Clear written and spoken English communication skills
- Structured, proactive mindset with strong cross-functional collaboration and decision-influencing ability
- Alignment with Valmet's Leadership Principles (accountability, courage, trust, collaboration)
What We Do
Valmet is the leading global developer and supplier of process technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries. We aim to become the global champion in serving our customers. Valmet's strong technology offering includes pulp mills, tissue, board and paper production lines, as well as power plants for bioenergy production. Our advanced services and automation solutions improve the reliability and performance of our customers' processes and enhance the effective utilization of raw materials and energy. Valmet's net sales in 2019 were approximately EUR 3.5 billion. Our more than 13,000 professionals around the world work close to our customers and are committed to moving our customers' performance forward - every day. Valmet's head office is in Espoo, Finland and its shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki.




