Product Sales Manager - Performance Parts

Are you looking for an opportunity to launch your career to the next level? Join us to lead product sales for performance parts across Eastern Europe.

At Valmet, we are shaping the future of sustainable packaging and paper solutions through innovation, collaboration, and a seamless lifecycle approach. Join us in advancing the packaging and paper business, as we move forward with our renewed strategy to Lead the Way. This means pioneering smarter technologies, expanding our service capabilities, and delivering customer value across the entire lifecycle—from raw material to finished product. If you're ready to make a real impact on a dynamic, future-focused environment, we invite you to grow with us.

In this role, you will shape customer success, drive revenue growth, and strengthen Valmet’s market position. You’ll collaborate with industry leaders, deliver innovative solutions, and make a tangible impact on sustainable operations. If you’re ready to combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution, this is your opportunity to lead and grow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow product sales for performance parts (spare parts and consumables) across EE area.

• Develop and execute sales strategies to meet revenue and profitability targets.

• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to deliver tailored solutions.

• Analyze market trends and identify new business opportunities.

• Ensure customer satisfaction through proactive support and relationship management.

Expectations:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in related field

• Proven experience in B2B sales within industrial or process industries.

• Strong negotiation and communication skills.

• Ability to travel (more than 50% of time) within Eastern Europe and driving license

• Fluent in English and Polish (German/other EE languages is advantage)

• Solid understanding of paper process technologies and customer needs.

To succeed in this role:

You will excel by combining technical expertise with strategic sales capabilities, building strong customer relationships, and driving growth through innovative solutions. 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.

We offer: In return, we offer you an interesting work environment, challenging position in a unit characterized by innovativeness and openness. Working within a global industry leader and the support of Valmet's global network. With us you are working in a team that contributes to the success of the organization as well as find opportunities for personal development.

Additional information:

To be included in the recruiting process, please complete our on-line application form and send your CV in English as soon as possible but no later than July 31st, 2026. Note that we will proceed with interviews as soon as suitable candidates are identified, already before the end of the application period.

Do you want to know more?

Additional information about this position can be obtained from Teemu Autio, Senior Manager, PAC SER EMEA Performance Parts Sales teemu.autio@valmet.com

For further information regarding the recruitment process, please contact Wiktoria Miedzińska, Talent Acquisition Partner, EMEA wiktoria.miedzinska@valmet.com

Next Steps:

Your profile will be reviewed during August. If shortlisted, you will be invited to a preliminary online video interview. This will be followed by an initial interview with the hiring manager and possible online assessment. Finalists will be invited for a concluding interview.

Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. With 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. Our commitment to moving our customers’ performance forward requires creativity, technological innovations, service know-how – and above all, teamwork.

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