Take the lead as Senior Demand and Supply Planner in a global planning environment
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.
Your responsibilities
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You prepare and maintain manufacturing demand forecasts using inputs from capital and service sales.
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You create and manage sales schedules during the sales phase, balancing demand with production, procurement, engineering, logistics, and capacity.
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You assess manufacturability and review material requirements together with manufacturing teams.
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You build production and capacity scenarios, including cost and financial impact, based on forecasts.
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You analyze risks, identify bottlenecks, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize delivery plans and performance.
What we expect from you
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You have experience in manufacturing, planning, project management, or cost estimation related to boiler pressure parts.
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You bring strong analytical skills and are confident with planning tools such as Excel or Power BI.
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You have experience supporting sales phase planning, including cost, capacity, and schedule evaluations.
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You understand capacity and resource planning across engineering and production.
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You communicate clearly in English, both written and spoken.
To succeed in this role, you will require the following:** **
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:
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Take accountability – Act with ownership, set clear expectations, and follow through
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Lead with courage – Champion change, try bold ideas, and learn quickly
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Build on trust – Listen to understand, be open, and create psychological safety
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Collaborate for growth – Work across boundaries, value diverse perspectives, and focus on customer value
We offer** **
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.
Want to know more?** **
Did we catch your interest? For further information, please contact Keijo Kivimäki, Director, Sales and Operation Planning, at Keijo.kivimaki@valmet.com
Last application date by June 5, 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.
**When everything works together **
**Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. With over 19,000 professionals around the world, we are the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries, and serve an even wider base of process industries with our automation systems and flow control solutions. Our commitment to moving our customers’ performance forward requires creativity, technological innovations, service know-how – and above all, teamwork. **