Global Automotive Product Manager

Would you like to work in a global company and play a part in its success? Sandvik Coromant encourages new ideas and can provide you with great opportunities for development. We are looking for talented people who would like to extend their professional and educational potential. You have the skills and we can help you put them to good use.

Sandvik Coromant is increasing its efforts within the area of Engineering EMEA by establishing Engineering Competence Centers (ECC). The objective is to create cross-functional teams within the established market areas, thereby being able to provide resources in design, engineered product management, process and applications engineering, and commercial support on the same site, wherever possible. We are now looking for an innovative Global Automotive Product Manager for Engineered Solutions to join our team.

Key performance areas
You will manage the life cycle of our engineered products and solutions, including their creation, phase out, and/or move to the standard assortment (i.e. go/warning/stop). Furthermore, you will develop and support a strategy for products and components and create a Product Initiative and a Project Charter, including FTE, for the Engineered Solutions.

Your responsibilities also include:
- Rationalizing the assortment within your defined area of responsibility
- Being a counterpart to global functions related to Product and Component Management, from Global Automotive to Engineered Products and Solutions, including the definition of solutions transitioning from Engineered Solution to the standard assortment
- Owning responsibility for the management of engineered solutions within their respective ECCs
- Ensuring that the ECC and ACES offerings are in line with our global strategy, as well as the long term Component and Product plan.

Your profile
We are looking for someone with a university degree within a related field, or equivalent experience acquired elsewhere. You have at least five years of work experience and good knowledge about the industry, along with some insight into manufacturing and/or manufacturing design. Excellent communication skills in English, both written and spoken, are prerequisite.

To be successful, you need a good set of general management skills; such as planning, organizing, controlling and leading, combined with the ability to motivate your co-workers and drive change. Furthermore, you should be positive at heart, and genuinely passionate about what you do.

We actively work to create a workplace that is characterized by diversity and inclusion.

Contact information
For further information about this position, please contact:
Bruno Gardes, recruiting manager, +33 (0)680 646 452

Union contacts
Maths Scherman, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)702 768 626
Raimo Annanolli, Unionen, +46 (0)702 083 369

Send your application no later than June 14, 2014. Read more about Sandvik and apply at www.sandvik.com/career, Job ID: 331717.

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact HR Services, +46 (0)20 261 444.

Recruiter
Anne Thunström