Senior R&D Manager Product Development
About this role
As a technology leader in metal cutting, Sandvik Coromant keeps pushing the boundaries of what advanced manufacturing can achieve. Staying ahead means continuously challenging what our products can do, which products we develop next, and how we bring them to market, ready to perform. In this role, you lead the development of our world-leading indexable tools, solid round tools, tooling systems and cutting tool grades.
Your mission
Our products are used in manufacturing workshops and factories all over the world. To keep exceeding our customers’ high expectations, you balance customer needs, technical possibilities and business priorities. This is a role where technical depth, commercial insight and strong people leadership are essential. You lead the organization through a transformation towards becoming more customer-oriented, digitally enhanced, business-driven and faster in execution.
The location for this position is one of our sites in Sweden – Sandviken, Stockholm or Gimo.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of indexable tool concepts, solid round tools, tooling systems and cutting tool grades from concept through launch readiness.
- Ensure delivery of knowledge, models and data related to product, grade, application and cutting process, for internal and external users.
- Set and execute a market- and technology-driven strategy and roadmap for technology and knowledge development, with sustainability embedded throughout.
- Build partnerships and strengthen collaboration within Sandvik as well as with external research eco-systems.
- Lead and develop leaders and technical teams, ensure future capabilities and succession, and guide the organization through change.
- Join our new R&D leadership team
- We’re reshaping R&D at Sandvik Coromant into a simpler, faster and more customer-focused organization, built around the capabilities that matter most for the future of machining. As a member of the new R&D leadership team, reporting to the VP R&D, you help set th