Regional Project Lead

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Seco Tools

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded unknown

🚀 Aerospace

🚘 Automotive

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 Funding Round on 2011-11

Aerospace • Automotive • Manufacturing

Seco Tools is a global company specializing in the manufacturing of advanced metal cutting solutions. Operating in numerous countries, the company offers products such as milling, turning, and holemaking tools, as well as tooling systems. Seco Tools caters to various industries including aerospace, automotive, medical, and power generation. They provide a comprehensive range of services including tool deterioration analysis, inventory management, and advanced engineering services. The company is committed to sustainability, utilizing smart software and digital technology to optimize production processes and improve decision-making in line with Industry 4. 0 principles. Seco Tools also emphasizes their commitment to quality and innovation through education and training programs, as well as strategic acquisitions to enhance their product offerings.

📋 Description

• Support Solva Business Development and regional sales in qualifying integrated manufacturing opportunities • Lead or support customer Discovery and Assessment activities • Translate customer challenges into opportunity definitions, value hypotheses, assessment scopes, and proposal inputs • Develop and review technical proposals, business cases, assumptions, risks, KPIs, and value propositions • Support Statements of Work, commercial discussions, staged deliverables, customer alignment, and handover into delivery • Lead and govern complex Solva project delivery across Discovery, Assessment, Proposal, Agreement, Execution, Partnership, and Support • Own execution quality, customer communication, action tracking, milestones, risk management, escalation, and delivery performance • Coordinate Innovation Hub, engineering, machining specialists, partners, suppliers, and local Seco teams • Coach local Technical Sales Engineers, Account Managers, and Application Engineers • Ensure structured project closure, lessons learned, case study capture, and handover to the local Seco organization • Share Solva knowledge and promote consistent use of tools, templates, governance, reporting, and customer communication routines • Represent Solva as a senior customer-facing project leader and engage technical, operational, commercial, and senior-management stakeholders • Support customer reviews, business reviews, steering meetings, and strategic account discussions • Maintain visibility of regional project status, risks, workload, pipeline readiness, delivery capacity, and customer impact • Drive project tracking, action logs, dashboards, documentation standards, and performance reporting • Champion safe working practices and ensure compliance with customer requirements, Seco procedures, the Sandvik Code of Conduct, legal obligations, quality expectations, and environmental responsibilities

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, business, project management, or a related technical or commercial field, or equivalent relevant industry and leadership experience • 10+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, technical project leadership, business development support, industrial solutions, application engineering, or a related customer-facing technical environment • Proven experience leading complex customer projects and coordinating cross-functional technical contributors without direct line-management responsibility • Strong manufacturing engineering knowledge covering machining, tooling, programming, process optimisation, cost per part, OEE, quality, and production stability • Strong experience in machining process improvement, tooling strategy, production engineering, CAD/CAM, fixtures, partner coordination, or manufacturing optimisation • Experience in value-based, consultative, or solution-selling environments • Experience working with regional or global teams, customers, suppliers, and strategic partners • Advanced project governance, risk management, customer communication, action tracking, reporting, prioritisation, resource coordination, and escalation management • Ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams without direct authority, manage conflict, and align contributors around outcomes • Strong digital literacy, data analysis, commercial awareness, and confidence using CRM, project tracking tools, dashboards, and Microsoft 365 • Fluent written and spoken English • Valid passport with willingness and ability to travel regionally and internationally • Project Management, Agile, PMP, PRINCE2, Lean Six Sigma, continuous improvement, or manufacturing excellence certification is desirable • Additional regional languages are advantageous

🏖️ Benefits

• Willingness and ability to travel regionally and internationally • Professional development through coaching, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement activities • Opportunity to work with global teams, customers, suppliers, strategic partners, and the Innovation Hub • Sustainability-focused work and customer value creation