Product Owner - Product Data Services

Are you a creative and dedicated digital ambassador who’s highly organized and has skills to drive multiple initiatives simultaneously, all while maintaining the highest levels of customer experience? Then it’s probably you we’re looking for.
To Seco Tools and our Digital Product Services department, we’re now looking for a Product Specialist to care for our product data services. As a team, we’re running the digital services related to Seco’s product portfolio by delivering a compelling story to the market. Together we’re passionate about guiding to purchase and supporting customers on the use of our tools. All in all, our team makes sure all individual digital services offer a distinct functionality and value propositions, and provide a consistent interface, look-and-feel and user experience.
We welcome you to join us in a new area where you get to improve and develop solutions for an industry that’s constantly evolving and going through major changes – an exciting setting to be part of, to say the least.
Briefly about the job
In this position, you’ll act in close collaboration with our sales teams, IT, product managers and customers to enhance, maintain and build improvements for our product data services. You support in the development of data-distribution according to requirements of end-users, and assure they are aligned with our overall strategy and meeting business needs.
You describe and prioritize improvements, changes and bug fixes. Being responsible for the backlog of product data services, you explore product data needs and translate customer requirements to existing solutions or develop new ones, and you support with the implementation of our product data services at external partners and software's. To ensure our continuous success, you also support various projects to capture improvements and requirements related to product data services.
The things that make you a perfect match
With an inclusive approach, you always put our customers and their journeys at front. Proactive and positive with a holistic perspective are other words that describe you, and you have a natural drive to complete tasks in a timely manner. Then we have some key characteristics for unlocking true success:
Excellent communication & people skills – As you work closely with both internal and external partners and stakeholders, this is an absolute must have to provide great service.
A creative mindset – Essential when you define, describe and prioritize what needs to be done to improve our solutions.
Being a networker – This makes it easy for you to work with vendors and product data providers to improve our offering and integration with third parties such as Data-brokers, CAM-suppliers and other new upcoming platforms.
Structured and able to prioritize – Working through the backlog and translating customer requirements, you really benefit from being good at this.
Working data-driven & user-centric – You need to bring this perspective to the market and user studies.



Naturally, you also need to bring some experience and knowledge to the job, and we’re looking for someone with a university degree within for example IT, Digital Sales, Digital Products, Commercial Economics or Digital Marketing, combined with a technical curiosity about our products and its complimentary data. You have good knowledge within the field of product data and agile development, and we believe that you understand how different systems talk to each other. Basic knowledge within the machining industry and a variety of digital technologies – including CAM software – is a plus. Proficiency in English is a must as you work in a truly global setting, while knowledge of other languages is desirable.
Let’s talk about the location for this job
We would prefer that you’re based at our headquarters in Fagersta (Sweden), however, for the right candidate it can be flexible worldwide with presence at one of our offices in either Erkrath (Germany), Pune (India), Alcester (England) or Troy (US). We also promote working from home according to country-laws depending on where you’re located.
Our Seco culture
Seco employees across the globe share our family spirit, along with a passion for our customers and a personal commitment to ensure success in everything we do. For us, it’s also clear that our diversities form an outstanding foundation for achieving great results. Visit our LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us and our products further.
How to apply
Send your application no later than March 8, 2022. Read more about us and apply at www.secotools.com (Job ID: R0034392).
Contact information:
For more detailed information about this position, please contact the hiring manager:
Gerrit Kremer, Manager - Digital Product Services, +46 (0)70 295 59 76


Union contacts - Sweden
Kinga Liljedahl, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)223 - 407 68  
Monica Andersson, Unionen, +46 (0)223 - 403 23 
Benny Christiansen, Ledarna, +46 (0)223 - 405 76 
For more information about the recruitment process, please contact HR Services, +46 (0)26 261 444.
Recruitment Specialist
Heidi Pynnönen
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