Job Description

Are you ready to shape the future of global planning and create one aligned, data-driven plan across regions and product groups?

This is an opportunity to lead a critical transformation at the heart of our global Sales & Operations Planning process. By connecting demand, supply, and inventory strategies, you help create reliable service, support sustainable growth, and strengthen decision-making across the business.

Why Seco?

At Seco, you join a business that's transforming its supply chain into one connected, intelligent operation. This is a unique opportunity to influence how planning is managed globally today and for years to come. By joining Seco, you get to:

• Lead a global team and drive meaningful change across regions and functions.
• Shape future planning capabilities, including the implementation of a new Advanced Planning System.
• Work in a collaborative culture built on curiosity, responsibility, customer focus, and winning together.

About the job

You lead and develop the global mid-term planning process, ensuring one aligned and trusted demand and supply plan across regions and product groups. By bringing together stakeholders from Sales, Finance, Product Management, Procurement, and Operations, you create clarity, support decision-making, and strengthen planning performance across the organization. You report to the Head of Global Planning.

Job responsibilities:

• Lead the global planning process covering governance, planning cadence, decision-making frameworks, and data quality.
• Drive one aligned, data-driven demand and supply plan used across the business.
• Lead, coach, and develop a global team of planners and analysts.
• Balance service, inventory, and cost considerations through fact-based decision support.
• Define and monitor key planning performance indicators, including forecast accuracy and inventory performance.
• Play a key role in the Advanced Planning System transformation, including requirements, process design, master data discipline, and adoption.

Location and flexibility

The team is based in Fagersta, Sweden, and Pune, India, and we prefer one of these locations as your home base. We work in a hybrid setup and the position includes regular travel between the two sites, as well as occasional visits to regional organizations, typically 3-4 trips per year.

If you're based elsewhere and believe you're the right fit for this opportunity, we'd still like to hear from you. We're open to discussing flexible arrangements for exceptional candidates.

Your profile

You’ve built extensive experience within demand planning, supply planning, or S&OP in a global manufacturing environment and have successfully led people with direct reports. Comfortable working with data, technology, and cross-functional stakeholders, you're motivated by creating structure, driving improvements, and delivering results through collaboration.

Your background also includes:

• Experience owning and developing mid-term planning processes in a global or multi-region organization.
• Leadership experience, preferably with distributed or multi-site teams.
• Hands-on experience with Advanced Planning Systems and planning transformations or implementations.
• Strong knowledge of ERP systems, BI tools, and data-driven decision-making.
• Professional fluency in English.

Success in this position comes from combining analytical thinking with strong leadership and collaboration skills. You’re comfortable challenging assumptions when data points in a different direction, while building trust across cultures, teams, and time zones. With a long-term perspective and a practical mindset, you drive transformation without losing focus on operational performance.

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 also clear that our diversities form an amazing foundation for achieving great results. Curious about our workplace and benefits? Read more on our website You’re also welcome to visit our LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us and our products further.

Contact information

For further information about this position, please contact Bilal Lamaa, Head of Global Planning, bilal.lamaa@secotools.com

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Union contacts – Sweden

• David Romlin, Unionen, +46 (0)70-608 46 90
• Jörgen Andersson, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)70-548 10 70
• Benny Christiansen, Ledarna, +46 (0)70-523 50 60

Recruitment Specialist: Therese Rutqvist

How to apply

This recruitment has an ongoing selection process, please send your application as soon as possible, and no later than August 31, 2026. Click apply and include your resume and cover letter in English. Please note that we don’t accept applications by e-mail. Job ID: R0095797

For more information about our recruitment process, please contact HR Services at hrservices.sweden@sandvik.com.

At Seco Tools we develop and offer advanced products & solutions that make metal cutting easier. We work together with our customers to identify and implement the best solutions for their needs. The corporate culture empowers employees through shared values: Curiosity, Responsibility, Winning together and Customer focus. Seco Tools has a presence in more than 75 countries and employs about 4000 people.