Höganäs – Senior Manager Laboratories

Do you want to lead a global team at the forefront of innovation, validation and customer-focused development? Are you an experienced leader who thrives in cross-functional and multicultural environments and wants to join our journey of sustainable change and net-zero emissions? Then you might be the one we’re looking for!

Höganäs AB is currently seeking a Senior Manager Laboratories to strengthen our global innovation work and lead a skilled team working with test, validation, technical customer support, and advanced analysis.

About the position

As Senior Manager Laboratories, you will be responsible for our laboratory operations in both Sweden and China. You will lead a team of experts — from academic researchers to technicians – with the goal of integrating test and validation even more deeply into our development projects. With a clear customer focus, you will contribute both to early-phase innovation and to supporting customers in their ongoing production.

Your work will include setting strategies for how data is generated, structured and analyzed, as well as integrating digital tools into daily operations. You will be expected to work closely with R&D, product development and technical support teams to ensure that our laboratory function continues to deliver high value and reliable insights.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and develop teams within testing, validation, and customer support across multiple sites
• Ensure a strong safety culture and drive improvements in 5S and lab routines
• Develop and implement strategies for data generation, storage and analysis
• Integrate test and validation expertise into product and process development
• Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing between global teams
• Drive digital transformation of laboratory and validation operations
• Act as a key contributor in innovation projects and customer dialogues
• Ensure a structured and proactive approach to customer support, balancing technical expertise with customer needs

Your profile

We believe you have:

• A relevant engineering degree in areas such as mechanical engineering, system engineering, physics, chemistry or metallurgy
• Documented leadership experience, preferably within R&D or testing functions
• Experience leading diverse teams, preferably on a global scale
• A strong safety mindset and experience working with structured improvement methods
• Experience from global organizations and cross-functional collaboration
• Background in relevant industries such as automotive, process industry or high-volume manufacturing
• Solid understanding of test, validation and verification – on material, component or system level
• Experience working with data-driven decision making and digital tools in validation
• Fluency in English is required. Proficiency in Swedish is considered a merit.

It is an advantage if you have experience working in a mature project culture and/or previous responsibility for customer-facing support functions.

Benefits

With proximity to the wonderful surroundings of the Kullahalvön, Höganäs offers you stimulating and developing work tasks as well as good conditions for holidays, pensions, insurance, and skills development. We encourage our employees to live a healthy life and offer all employees a wellness allowance as well as free access to a gym and fitness room. We believe that a good work-life balance is important and therefore offer flexible working methods. As an employee, you also receive reduced working hours, subsidised lunch, and profit sharing.

Working at Höganäs

We aim to offer a great and meaningful place to work where you can fulfil your potential and ambitions. We welcome all applicants and strive for diversity. We have a clear management philosophy, and just like us you believe that through collaboration and openness we develop as individuals and as a company. We see all employees, regardless of position, as leaders when we approach the challenges that the world – and we – face. Höganäs AB ambition is to lead the transformation to better meet the needs of tomorrow and become the preferred supplier of sustainable metal powder on a global scale – join us in our journey of sustainable change and towards net-zero climate emissions.

More about Höganäs

Founded in 1797, Höganäs AB is the world leader in the market for powders, with a yearly capacity of 500,000 tonnes. Our vision is to drive positive change through material innovation, with the ambition of becoming the preferred partner for sustainable powder materials. At Höganäs AB, our strength lies in our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, and we are committed to gender diversity. We collaborate with customers to innovate solutions for automotive components, electric motors, brazing, surface coating, welding, and additive manufacturing. Operating 15 production centers worldwide and employing 2,300 people, Höganäs AB turnover for 2023 was €1.07 billion. Höganäs AB is owned by Lindéngruppen and Wallenberg-owned FAM.

How to apply

In this recruitment process, Höganäs AB is working with Academic Search. For further questions, please contact Senior Consultant Nicolai Gyllström at nicolai.gyllstrom@academicsearch.se or Researcher, Karin Gioeli, karin.gioeli@academicsearch.se. You apply by clicking on the ”Apply now” button below, where you enter your personal details, enclose CV and cover letter written in English. We look forward to receiving your application! We review applications continuously, so please apply as soon as possible – but no later than May 18th. All information is handled confidentially in accordance with Academic Search Integrity Policy as well as the new data protection act, GDPR. This means that we can only process applications coming through the applications system. Thank you for your understanding.