Regional Project Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Assist Solva Business Development and regional sales in identifying integrated manufacturing opportunities.

• Take the lead or provide support for customer Discovery and Assessment initiatives.

• Convert customer challenges into well-defined opportunities, value hypotheses, assessment scopes, and proposal elements.

• Create and evaluate technical proposals, business cases, assumptions, risks, KPIs, and value propositions.

• Aid in the development of Statements of Work, commercial discussions, staged deliverables, customer alignment, and the transition into delivery execution.

• Oversee and manage complex Solva project delivery through Discovery, Assessment, Proposal, Agreement, Execution, Partnership, and Support phases.

• Ensure execution quality, maintain customer communication, track actions, manage milestones, handle risks, escalate issues, and monitor delivery performance.

• Coordinate with the Innovation Hub, application engineering, machining specialists, partners, suppliers, and local Seco teams.

• Mentor local Technical Sales Engineers, Account Managers, and Application Engineers.

• Guarantee structured closure, capture lessons learned, document case studies, and facilitate handover to the local Seco organization.

• Disseminate Solva knowledge and encourage the consistent use of tools, templates, governance, reporting, and communication practices.

• Represent Solva as a senior project leader in customer-facing roles and engage with technical, operational, commercial, and senior management stakeholders.

• Assist in customer reviews, business reviews, steering meetings, and strategic account discussions.

• Maintain oversight of regional project status, risks, workload, pipeline readiness, delivery capacity, and customer impact.

• Propel project tracking, action logs, dashboards, project documentation standards, and performance reporting.

• Advocate for safe working practices and ensure adherence to customer requirements, Seco procedures, the Sandvik Code of Conduct, legal obligations, quality expectations, and environmental responsibilities.

• Report to the Solva Global Project Manager.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, business, project management, or a related technical or commercial field, or equivalent relevant industry and leadership experience.

• Over 10 years of experience in manufacturing engineering, technical project leadership, business development support, industrial solutions, application engineering, or a related customer-facing technical environment.

• Demonstrated experience in leading complex customer projects and coordinating cross-functional technical contributors without direct management authority.

• Strong background in machining process improvement, tooling strategy, production engineering, CAD/CAM, fixtures, partner coordination, or manufacturing optimization.

• Experience in value-based, consultative, or solution-selling contexts, linking technical recommendations to tangible business results.

• Experience collaborating with regional or global teams, customers, suppliers, and strategic partners.

• Proficient in Microsoft 365, CRM systems, project tracking tools, reporting dashboards, proposal writing, and structured project documentation.

• Fluent in both written and spoken English.

• Valid passport and willingness to travel regionally and internationally.

• Project Management, Agile, PMP, PRINCE2, Lean Six Sigma, continuous improvement, or manufacturing excellence certification is preferred.

• Additional regional languages are a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for regional and international travel.

• Continuous professional development through coaching and knowledge sharing.

• Collaboration with global and regional teams, customers, suppliers, and strategic partners.