Mill Sales Manager

Valmet; Appleton (WI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Valmet is seeking a Mill Sales Manager to lead sales initiatives in Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. You will build strong customer relationships, identify best-suited Valmet solutions, and coordinate upgrades, rebuilds, repairs, and parts within your territory.

You will promote entire Valmet offering while analyzing market needs and driving growth. A background in engineering or business with 5–10 years in related roles is expected, with strong communication skills essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering, Science or Business degree.
• 5–10 years of related technical or sales experience in pulp and paper or equivalent.
• Equally strong candidate with education and sales background considered.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate equipment upgrades, rebuilds, repairs, and parts in territory.
• Promote and sell Valmet offerings across product lines within territory.
• Provide sales updates, bookings, forecasts, and competitive analysis.
• Lead audits, on-site services, data collection and customer support.

Skills

Sales experience

Strong communication

Market analysis

Education

Bachelor of Engineering

Bachelor of Science or Business

Job description

Lead the Future of Sustainable Solutions! Join us as a Mill Sales Manager in the Pulp & Paper Industry and drive innovation, growth, and impact.

Territory includes Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Deciding on your next employer is not a decision to be made lightly. But if you want to work on the front lines of development, shaping the field as you go, keep reading to see what we have to offer! Our winning team is built by continuous investment in skills development, leadership and well-being. As a global company, we offer many career paths to suit individual needs and aspirations.

As a Mill Sales Manager for Valmet, you play a key role in building and maintaining solid working relationships with our customers, understanding their needs and identify how Valmet can partner with them to ensure the right solutions at the right time. This requires a firm grasp of the sales process and a willingness to work cooperatively with our customers and with our internal experts to ensure the highest levels of service. In this challenging role you have the responsibility for coordination of equipment upgrades, rebuilds, repairs, and parts and services within your specified territory. You will have the opportunity to apply your experience in marketing and brand building to achieve key targeted business goals for all of Valmet’s product lines.

You will be responsible for promoting and selling entire Valmet offering while staying actively involved within your assigned region to fully understand and analyze the market for product growth.

Responsibilities will include providing updates on sales, projections, bookings, proposal activities, costs and other related customer activities.

Expectations

This opportunity could be right for you if you have a Bachelor of Engineering, Science or Business Degree combined with 5 to 10 years related technical experience in various positions as machine engineer, process manager, paper mill operations or maintenance management or commercial and account management experience with suppliers that serve the pulp and paper industry. Equivalent combination of education and experience combined with experience in sales will be seriously considered.

To be successful in this role, you must have excellent verbal and written communications skills.

You will participate in as well as lead equipment audits, on site services, data collection, inventory audits or other support for customers with respect to paper machine services or in support of specific customer contracts and agreements. You will help provide a territory sales forecast/budget for assigned accounts including competitor analysis.

We Offer

We offer a challenging work environment that values innovation and suits development-minded people who enjoy working in a fast-paced and dynamic setting. Includes a generous wage and benefits package that includes a 401k with company match as well as company-funded pension.

Please note that any offer of employment is contingent upon a background check and pre-employment physical and drug screen.

Additional Information

Delivering competitive technologies and services is what we do best. At Valmet, we continue to push forward and develop ourselves, concentrating on technology, services, sustainability, local presence, and our people. To be included in the recruiting process, please apply directly with us online.

Where everything works together

Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. With 20,000 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 customer's performance forward requires creativity, technological innovations, service know-how - and above all, teamwork. Join the team! www.valmet.com/careersna

Valmet is an equal opportunity employer. All employees and applicants for employment will not be discriminated on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit-based factors.

Please note that Valmet will never ask for personal financial information during the interview process. If you feel you have been a victim of an online job posting scam, please notify the Federal Trade Commission