Senior Mill Sales Manager Tissue

Are you looking for your next career step? Join Valmet as a Senior Mill Sales Manager for Tissue Business Area in Spain.

In this role, you will drive growth and enhance customer experience, with a strong focus on service sales within the Tissue Business Area. You will represent Valmet’s full tissue offering as the single point of contact for the assigned mill or production lines, ensuring alignment between customer needs and Valmet’s lifecycle solutions. We are accepting applications from any Valmet office location in Spain: Bilbao, Madrid, Zaragoza and Barcelona.

 

Your Responsibilities

• Manage and book orders within the Tissue Business Unit, ensuring compliance with established sales processes.
• Lead and support customer negotiations and contract discussions.
• Promote Valmet’s tissue lifecycle solutions, services, upgrades, and optimization offerings, guiding customers toward the most effective and sustainable solutions.
• Act as a trusted advisor to key stakeholders at customer mills.
• Collect and monitor customer feedback and satisfaction levels to continuously improve the customer experience.
• Handle high-priority requests or escalations and communicate claim progress effectively.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of installed base data, tissue technologies, and market trends.
• Align with and support corporate-level account management strategies.
• Coordinate mill shutdowns, restart schedules, and service planning activities.
• Coordinate mill teams or regional hubs to ensure efficient information exchange (e.g., quarterly performance meetings).
• Collaborate closely with product managers, field services, automation experts, and spare parts teams to identify and develop new business opportunities.
  
  

 

Who We Are Looking For

• Degree in Paper Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related field.
• 5–8 years of experience in a similar commercial or technical sales role, preferably within tissue mills or the tissue converting industry.
• Strong understanding of tissue production processes, including papermaking, converting, and related digital solutions.
• Excellent command of English and Spanish.
• Valid driving license.
• Willingness to travel extensively across the region to support customers and drive business growth.
  
  

 

What We Offer

We offer you a challenging and rewarding position within a dynamic and international organization, with the opportunity to influence the direction and success of the Tissue Business Unit. As part of an engaged and enthusiastic team, you will have the chance to further develop your technical and commercial skills while contributing to sustainable and innovative tissue production solutions worldwide. In addition, we offer you a competitive compensation package, including bonus plan and allowances, medical insurance and company car.

Additional Information

If this looks like your next career step, apply latest by April 26. All applications must be submitted through Valmet Careers.

That feeling when… everything works together is what makes working at Valmet unique!

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.

 

Join the team!

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