Sales Director

About the role

Södra Cell is a world‑leading producer of market pulp, supplying customers globally with high‑quality, responsibly produced products from renewable forest raw material. Our operations are tightly integrated with Södras production units and governed by clear, process‑driven structures where collaboration and commercial excellence are key to long‑term profitability.

We are now looking for a Sales Director to strengthen our international commercial organization within Södra Cell.

This is what you will work with at Södra

As Sales Director, you hold overall commercial responsibility for a portfolio of strategically important international customers. Your mission is to ensure that the annually budgeted production volumes of pulp are sold with the highest possible profitability, in close alignment with Södra Cell’s producing units.

You operate at the intersection of strategy and execution in a global business environment, leading complex negotiations, securing long‑term agreements and ensuring disciplined execution throughout the contract lifecycle. A central part of the role is to continuously optimize the customer portfolio to enable profitable and sustainable allocation of production.

In this role, you play an active part in senior Key Account Management in an international setting, acting as a key interface between customers, production units and internal support functions. By combining collaboration, commercial insight and strong governance, you contribute to the development of commercial strategies and ways of working across the organization.

In short, the role includes:

Overall commercial responsibility for key international customers and profitability

Long‑term customer relationships built on trust, collaboration and business value

Close alignment between market, production and internal stakeholders

The position is a permanent, full‑time role, based at one of our European locations, including Munich, or from a home office within Europe. Ther