President of Seco Tools

Right now, you have a unique opportunity to join a people company in the machining industry, and step into an exciting position where you significantly contribute to build our company culture and success. For Seco Tools, we’re looking for a strategic and commercial President with a modern business outlook and a global growth mindset.

Seco Tools is a division within Business Area Segment Sandvik Machining Solutions, with around 4000 employees and operations spread across 75 different countries. We’re also one of the world’s largest providers of comprehensive metal cutting solutions for milling, stationary tools, holemaking and tooling systems. Leading the Seco Tools division means working in an international, dynamic and innovative arena, and you get to connect with brilliant minds as you shape our future journey, unlock value for both customers and stakeholders and strengthen our place as a major industrial player.

About the job
With a customer centric approach, you drive our global business into the future of manufacturing and take full ownership of our direction and strategy execution. You ensure growth, profitability, digitalization and innovation – both through organic development and through acquisitions, partnerships and alliances. You focus to bring the Seco organization to the next level and develop our operations in line customer needs, new technology and Industry 4.0, as well as ensure continued success in well-established areas. You also form a united company approach with full accountability and strong commitment to our strategies. By inspiring high performance and improvements and by constantly enhancing our offer, you make sure that Seco is the number one choice on the market.

Other highly important items on your agenda are making sure that we conduct business in a safe and sustainable manner, creating a culture of diversity and inclusion, and optimizing the engagement of the organization as well as our employer attraction. Acting in a decentralized environment, you’re known for your great collaboration skills and the way you form strong networks. As part of a larger organization, you work closely with all relevant parts of Sandvik Group, and you also establish smart and effective ways of interacting with key stakeholders. You report to the President of Sandvik Machining Solutions and actively contribute in our management team, where you also utilize the possibility to learn from others and bring the entire business area forward.

In this role, you can have your base at any of our European sites, although our headquarters in Fagersta, Sweden is the preferred location, where you need to spend time on a regular basis. Global travel is a natural part of the job.

About you
We’re looking for an experienced and inspiring general manager with a value-based leadership style and a broad business mind. You hold a technical or commercially oriented university degree and have a solid background from successfully leading a larger organization, preferably within the global manufacturing domain. Experience from business development and previous profit and loss responsibility is necessary. You also know how to balance and act on a forward-thinking strategy with the tactical ability of driving execution in a shifting market. As we act across borders and cultures, you naturally need an open mind and advanced communication skills in English.

Collaboration, stakeholder management and customer relations are your success factors, and you capture opportunities in innovations and new ideas without losing track of our direction. You’re also confident and brave in decision-making and you take lead in initiating change. With your truly customer focused outlook, you promote areas that are beneficial to both our customers and our own conditions. Just like us, you trust in the power of teamwork, and you shape an entrepreneurial culture where people engage to increase performance.


Our Seco culture
As one of the world’s leading suppliers of metal cutting products and solutions, we’re proud to join forces with our customers and help them navigate into a more digital, productive and sustainable future. All Seco employees across the globe share our family spirit, along with a passion for our customers and a personal commitment to what we do. For us, it is also clear that our diversities form the best foundation for achieving great results. Visit our LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us and our products further.

Application
We look forward to your application and ask you to please make sure that we have it no later than June 17, 2021. Read more about us and apply at www.secotools.com (Job ID: R0028863).

Contact information
For more information about this exciting position, please contact:
James Crilley, Executive Talent Acquisition Manager, +46 (0)70 616 76 23

Swedish Union contacts
Monica Andersson, Unionen, +46 (0)223 403 23
Thomas Andersson, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)223 405 35
Håkan Westborg, Ledarna, +46 (0)223 406 27


To learn about the recruitment process, please contact HR Services, +46 (0)26 261 444.

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