Global Material Planning Manager

If you're a dynamic leader with a passion for driving Supply Chain Planning excellence, we want to hear from you!

At Valmet, we are shaping the future of sustainable solutions through innovation, collaboration, and a seamless lifecycle approach. Join us 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 in a dynamic, future-focused environment, we invite you to grow with us.

We are looking for a skilled and highly motivated person to join and strengthen Materials Management Team in the Global Supply function for Biomaterial Solutions and Services business.

In this global role, you will focus on developing and maintaining the material planning processes in optimizing material flows and balancing demand-supply processes within the global supply chain.

You are responsible for the global strategy and execution of material planning activities to ensure the right materials are available and deliverable at the right time and place to support production and customer demand. Your role is to optimize the place for stocking, ensure alignment with demand forecasts, optimize the dispatch place for customer delivery and driving cross-functional collaboration across logistics centers, business units and manufacturing units.

You communicate actively and engage key stakeholders at senior level and operational level. You will establish the material planning forum and lead the global material planning process together with different stakeholders to optimize the material flow and guide operations to define planning parameters to balance and optimize the supply chain. You identify and drive proactively development ideas and manage change in your responsibility area.

To Be Successful In This Position, You Will Need

• Degree in Supply Chain Management, Economics, Business Administration and / or Engineering.
• Over 10 years of experience in material or supply planning, with at least 5 years in a leadership role, preferably in the context of global industrial manufacturing.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with clear drive to lead change and transformation of business in global, networked environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills including extensive knowledge in managing matrix teams & stakeholders with geographically and culturally diverse setup.
• Excellent cooperation and teamwork, while maintaining high integrity and commitment to achieving the organization's goals.
• Strong analytical skills and strategic acumen, with the ability to interpret data and make data-driven decisions
• Good IT skills with strong MS Excel skills. Knowledge of Infor LN and e.g. APICS certification (CPIM, CSCP) as benefit
• Strong understanding of global supply chain networks, planning systems, and inventory management.
• Fluent English, both written and oral.

We Offer

In return, we offer you an interesting work environment, demanding position 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 November 19th, 2025. Note that we will proceed with interviews as soon as suitable candidates are identified, already before the end of the application period.

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Do you want to know more

For further information about the position, please contact Janne Loikkanen, Director, Materials Management, Global Supply

tel. +358 408295312 on 7th November at 9h00-11h00 or 14th November at 14h30-15h00 (Finnish time)

For further information regarding the recruitment process, please contact Wiktoria Miedzińska , Recruiter

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Next Steps

Your profile will be reviewed during November.

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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Skills Required

Material Planning, Ms Excel, Planning Systems, Inventory Management, Supply Planning