Are Have you outgrown your current role and now looking for new exciting challenges?

We're looking for Senior Manager, Strategic Planning and Performance Management!

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.

Senior Manager, Strategic Planning and Performance Management plays a critical role in driving strategic execution, alignment and operational excellence across the organization. This role combines strategic and annual planning, performance tracking with robust KPI development, and business analytics to support executive decision-making and reporting.

Key responsibilities:

Strategic and Annual Planning processes and target setting:

• Manage the strategy and annual planning processes in line with Group guidance. Support planning by integrating performance insights into planning initiatives.

• Collaborate with business leaders to set ambitious initiatives, actions and performance targets.

Strategic Performance management:

• Develop and maintain performance management systems aligned with strategic goals.

• Develop KPIs across units, prepare performance dashboards and executive reports for senior management.

• Provide insights based on performance trends and variances.

Cross-organizational collaboration and continuous improvement:

• Collaborate to align planning and performance processes to ensure consistency in performance metrics and reporting

• Lead initiatives to improve data quality, reporting processes, and performance culture.

In this position you will work closely with Global Supply’s senior management and the broader Valmet strategy development team as well as several other internal and external stakeholders. You will be a member of Strategic Development Projects team and report to VP, Strategic Development Projects.

To be successful in this position, you will need:

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Business or Economics.

• Over 5 years of experience in strategy, performance management, business planning and PMO in an industrial, consulting or similar environment.

• Excellent motivation and attitude, and drive to achieve results, both individually and as part of a team.

• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in power point, excel and data visualization tools.

• Demonstrated success in a multi-cultural and international environment.

• Effective written and oral communication skills in English.

• Willingness and ability to travel.

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 12th, 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 Christer Schönberg, Vice President, Strategic Development Projects tel. +358 400828403 on November 3th at 16.30-17.30 or November 5th at 9.00-10 (Finnish time)

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

wiktoria.miedzinska@valmet.com

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