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Do you want to contribute to our sales transformation by accelerating our organic growth and improving our profitability? Seco is seeking a new Sales Market Manager Nordics to support our global sales and market organization.

Welcome to a global and innovative company with a family spirit where we help each other grow. We’re eager to meet you!

About us

We’re a people company in the machining business. For over 80 years, we have been more than just a cutting tool provider. Our tools help build planes, trains, automobiles, and everything else around us. Take your phone case for example, the molds are cut and built by our tools. The lenses in the glasses you wear, cut by our products. We understand our business, strive to show continuous improvements and are proud of the work we do. We make a difference in people's lives, and we invite you to join us in this!

About your job

In this position, you’re responsible for delivering on the financial targets and KPI’s of your area of responsibility in the Nordics – including Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. You support the design and drive the implementation of our strategic initiatives locally. To ensure success, you work closely with Operations and Functional teams within the Sales and Marketing organization. You understand the need to balance local, regional and global needs.

With an inclusive and open leadership style – focusing on creating a collaborative environment with open communication – you lead by example and by empowering your team. Naturally, you work actively to create a great place to work, including taking care of health and safety, as well as diversity and inclusion as major contributors. You support our journey to becoming a growing net-zero company, through our Where to Compete (W2C) initiatives, and evolution of our go-to-market strategy.

You develop, manage, implement and monitor all activities belonging to your area of responsibility and lead your sales team to deliver on the following:

• Ensuring your team contributes to the business planning cycle, following up on local business results and implementing mitigation actions where required.
• Support in building the infrastructure to be able to successfully sell products and services.
• Seek growth in our strategic accounts following our W2C model and prioritize where to focus based on our customer needs and partners’ strength.
• Drive collaboration and pro-active communication to speed up and improve our way of working.
• Seek global solutions to achieve efficiency gains and show interest in new technologies.

You’re a proactive and valued member of the North-West Europe Sales Management team and report to our Sales Director of North-West Europe. The location for this position is Sweden.

You bring the following skills, personal traits and interests

• A university degree in Business Administration, Economy, Engineering or related qualification from job experience.
• Inclusive leadership and excellent collaborative and change management skills to guide our organization and lead multicultural teams.
• Balance long-term needs with short-term results and operational performance.
• Fluency in English, verbally and in writing. Fluency of Swedish is preferred and knowledge in additional skills are a plus.

Your personality really excites us! You can work on multiple topics simultaneously and are able to think outside the box to create insights for improvements. You have a strong business mindset and a financial understanding. Being result-oriented and customer-centric in your thinking are perfect assets for this role. You communicate complex topics to the local organization in a way which promotes understanding and engagement. With good networking skills and by embracing cultural differences, you easily collaborate with diverse partners on a global level.

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 amazing foundation for achieving great results.

Contact information 

For further information about this position, please contact:

• Eurion Kemish, Director of Sales North-West Europe and recruiting manager, [email protected]
• Martin Bovens, HR Business Partner Europe, [email protected]

We have already decided on which advertising channels and marketing campaigns we wish to use, and respectfully decline any additional contacts in that matter.

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

Recruitment Specialist: Anna Pettersen

At Seco, we value work-life balance and due to the holidays, it may take a little bit longer until we reply in this process.

How to apply

Send us your application no later than January 10th, 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: R0073767.

As we aim for a fair recruitment process, we utilize assessment tools to safeguard objectivity. When you apply for this job, you will therefore receive an invitation via email to a personality and logic ability test. Feedback comes immediately after the test has been completed and the selection process begins after the application deadline.

For more information about our recruitment process, please contact HR Services at [email protected].