Parts Specialist

Your future challenge
The Parts Specialist role is to drive and improve the spare part business for the Husqvarna Brand Division, with a special focus on creating an attractive spare part offer. The Part Specialist role is accountable for deciding and managing of spare parts to support service events and failure modes for products.
The Part Specialist has responsibility for the full product life cycle of spare parts; from the introduction, through the sustaining phase and beyond the end of service life of a product.
With a record of responsibility for Spare Parts within your product category, you will have an opportunity to drive the Spare Part business together with the After Sales organization to achieve customer satisfaction and growing a profitable business by making sure that we offer the correct parts assortment.
Your role
The Part Specialist will be responsible for execution and tactics required to achieve multiple objectives:
· Select and manage spare parts within the New Product Development projects creating Spare part BOMs and oversee IPL work
· Have an important role in Product maintenance work governing the Spare part offering.
· Be responsible for implementing and maintaining the data quality of master-data for spare parts
· Responsible to create an attractive spare part offer including packaging for spare parts
· Drive initiative to improve the spare part assortment. Support the global price department with technical information for optimal spare parts pricing
This position may involve 10-20 days of international travel.
Who you are
· A person who are motivated by a challenge and the possibility to make an impact
· Supplier management and communication skills
· Good understanding of global trade and logistics
· Experience from cross functional teams and a global environment
· Have a great understanding of the customer needs, market development and its business
· Good language skills in English, both oral and written
· Good mechanical skills
· Preferably a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other relevant discipline
Other beneficial qualifications
· Experience from R&D, Product Management or forestry /commercial lawn & gardening
· Advanced Excel-knowledge
· Experience from after sales work
· 3-5 years’ work experience in spare parts handling
· Hands-on experience from repair-shop work
· Good language skills in Swedish and other languages
You are analytical and strategical person who is comfortable working independently and taking business decisions.
Furthermore, we appreciate a person who has good interpersonal skills as there will be a close contact with different stakeholders within the organization but also with different suppliers, especially suppliers located in Asia.
Work location: Huskvarna
Your application
Can you envision yourself being a part of this? If so, send us your application including resumé and personal letter as soon as possible since we are reviewing the applications on an ongoing basis. For more questions regarding the position please contact:
Hiring Manager – Bengt Öhlund bengt.öhlund@husqvarnagroup.com
For more information about the recruitment process, please contact: Recruiter – Kristin Sundlo kristin.sundlo@husqvarnagroup.com
Union representatives: Soili Johansson – Unionen, soili.johansson@husqvarnagroup.com Cameron Rad – Sveriges Ingenjörer; Akademikerföreningen (Represent all SACO-unions), cameron.rad@husqvarnagroup.com.
What happens after you have applied?
We will review the applications on an ongoing basis to see if your profile matches the requirements of the vacant position. If we believe you are a potential candidate for the role, you will be invited for an initial interview. In preparation for the interview you will receive information about the arrangement as well as other steps in the process, such as second interviews, assessments, references and introduction. If you aren’t chosen to proceed in the process, you will be informed of this at the latest when the position has been filled