Spare Part Specialist – Husqvarna Group

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.
This is an exciting opportunity for a person with knowledge about Product Management and has a proven track record of achieving results in in a dynamic and challenging business environment.
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.
Location: Huskvarna.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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.
How to apply
Please submit your application with CV and cover letter. For more information about the recruitment process please contact: Recruiter – Gorjana Dubovina - gorjana.dubovina@husqvarnagroup.com. For more information about the position please contact: Hiring manager – Bengt Öhlund, bengt.ohlund@husqvarnagroup.com.
Union representatives: Soili Johansson – Unionen, soili.johansson@husqvarnagroup.com. Cameron Rad, Sveriges Ingenjörer; Akademikerföreningen (Represents all Saco unions), Cameron.Rad@husqvarnagroup.com.

When the application date is due, we will review your application carefully 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.
We seek people who have a great sense of self-motivation, creative problem solvers who enjoy collaboration and networking in an international environment - people with a strong desire to add value. Our Key Behaviors always begins with ME, I take ownership and I ask myself: What can I do?