Senior Advisor, Product Management

Are you ready to lead innovation and drive strategic impact together with us? At Seco, we’re looking for a Senior Advisor for Product Management. A key role in influencing the future of Business Area Machining by aligning product strategies, ensuring product sharing, and accelerating time-to-market. Ultimately ensuring our offerings deliver exceptional value to customers worldwide and to the company.

This is your opportunity to join a people-centric company that thrives on curiosity, responsibility, customer focus, and winning together.

About the job

In this position, you lead Seco Product Sharing initiatives in Machining. You will conduct market research and feasibility studies to analyze the viability of alternative product sharing opportunities between divisions to increase revenue and cost effectiveness for Machining as a whole, coordinate activities within Machining Board, Seco functions and connected divisions functions.

Working actively with the team at Standard Products Offer and Innovation at Seco, you support cross functional activities from a Seco perspective and act as senior advisor to VP Offer and Innovation, Director Standardized products and to Machining Board.

Your responsibilities include:

• Collect, compile, verify, and analyze product portfolios suitable for sharing to and from Seco within Machining.
• Collaborate with counterparts in the sister divisions to continuously work on new candidates for sharing, both within product management and operations.
• Align product sharing objectives with product strategies and road maps securing customer value and internal efficiency.
• Develop the process of way of working for selecting and implementing sharing solutions.
• Drive the process, with actual sharing activities as outcome.
• Delivering fully documented sharing objectives/candidates including sales development over the NSR period.

You report to the Director of Standard Products Offer and Innovation at Seco. The location for this position is flexible within Europe, and regular travel is part of the job.

Your profile

We’re looking for a senior leader with extensive experience in strategic and tactical planning, with deep knowledge within metal cutting industry and preferable the Seco portfolio. You have a strong business acumen and a proven track record of leading leaders. Skills in stakeholder, project and portfolio management are needed. A good network in Machining is an advantage. Your background includes a university degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience. Acting in a global environment calls for fluency in English, both verbally and in writing.

While your background is essential, we're equally interested in your soft skills – you’re structured, analytical, and highly collaborative. You bring energy, independence, and a sense of urgency to everything you do. Being curious and open to new ideas, you're not afraid to challenge the status quo. You know how to prioritize, make things happen, and inspire your team to do the same.

Our Seco culture  

At Seco, we're united by a spirit of collaboration and a shared curiosity to learn and grow. We take responsibility for our actions, stay focused on our customers, and believe in winning together. For us, it's clear that our different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives form an amazing foundation for achieving great results.

Contact information   

For further information about this position, please contact: 

Katharina Frisk Global HR Business Partner in Product Offer & Innovation at Seco Tools, katharina.frisk@secotools.com

Hiring Manager   

Mia Bökmark, VP Product Offer & Innovation  

Union contacts – Sweden   

• David Romlin, Unionen, +46 (0)70-608 46 90 
• Suncana Bandalo, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)70-300 10 73
• Benny Christiansen, Ledarna, +46 (0)70-523 50 60 

How to apply

Send us your application no later than August 31, 2025. Click apply and include your resume and cover letter in English. Please note that we don’t accept applications by e-mail. Job ID: R0082565. This job ad is aimed for those currently working within the Sandvik Group.

Our recruitment process is open and fair – we welcome all applicants and evaluate every unique application in line with the specified requirements profile, to find the best match for the position. To learn more about our recruitment process, please visit our career site or contact HR Services at hrservices.sweden@sandvik.com.