Production Manager to Malmö

TOBLOR Consulting AB

Bona is a family-owned company founded in 1919. Our head office is located in Malmö, Sweden. We have subsidiaries in 17 countries and factories in Malmö, Germany and the USA. We have business activities in more than 80 countries, and our turnover is over 4 billion SEK. Worldwide we have around 700 employees. We put all our effort into bringing out the best in every floor. We have a complete product range and lifetime support for installation, maintenance, cleaning and renovating floors. We develop coatings, adhesives, oils, cleaning products and grinding machines. Our customers are craftsmen and parquet manufacturers as well as floor owners. Through our values passion, performance and pioneering we build our partnership with customers, business partners and coworkers. Bona has a strong focus on safety, health and environment as well as sustainability, and we are an ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 certified company. www.bona.com As Global Quality Manager – Components, you will play a crucial role in shaping and strengthening Bona’s global quality framework. This is a newly created position with significant impact on customer-perceived quality, supplier performance, and continuous improvement across our international operations. You will be an integral part of delivering Bona’s business strategy, ensuring consistent quality performance for traded goods and kitted products. The role is both strategic and operational, combining structure, coordination, and hands-on quality leadership in a global context. Key responsibilities The Global Quality Manager ensures consistent product performance and reliability. You will drive systematic follow-up of deviations during manufacturing, storage, and product usage, ensuring knowledge transfer and continuous improvement. The role acts as the main coordinator and point of contact for all quality-related matters within the product segment Components & Traded Goods globally. The scope also includes support and surveillance of subcontracted production in Asia, Europe and USA. Your responsibilities includes, but are not limited to: · Continuously identifying, implementing and following up on process improvements, while maintaining and developing global management systems · Developing standardized quality control SOPs and manuals for all traded goods globally · Managing and coordinating testing, sampling, and calibration activities · Leading CAPA, deviation handling, and root cause analyses with a systematic and structured approach · Coordinating Quality activities · Collaborating proactively with Regulatory, Sourcing, Production and Product Management You are reporting to the global QSHE Director and the position is based in Malmö, but requires travelling to other Bona units and suppliers globally. Your profile We are looking for a candidate with a strong quality mindset and solid experience within Quality Management Systems in a manufacturing environment, ideally with a global scope. A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is expected. A university degree in Mechanical or Electromechanical Engineering, or a related field, is required. Experience from working closely with external suppliers is highly valued, as is the ability to operate effectively in an international environment. Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is essential. Personality First of all, we believe you have a structured and organized personality. You are a true coordinator with the ability to influence people. You prefer to develop new and better ways of working, rather than maintaining existing ditto, and you have the courage and integrity to challenge the organization and its existing processes. You combine structure and rigor with a pragmatic and coaching approach. In order to be successful in this new position, we believe you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and international experience in a multi-language and multi-culture business environment. Why Bona? Bona is a value-driven company characterized by strong growth and solid financial performance, enabling long-term investments in people, facilities and production equipment. Bona is an industry leader when it comes to innovative and sustainable R&D, with products in absolute forefront. There is a strong focus on safety, health, environment, quality and sustainability. This newly established role offers a unique opportunity to influence and shape a global quality organization from the outset. You will have significant international exposure and the opportunity to create structure, implement best practices and drive improvements across markets. If you are motivated by building systems, strengthening supplier quality, and contributing to a global organization with ambitious quality standards, this is an opportunity to make a real impact. Information and application For more information about this job opening, please contact recruitment consultant Tobias Lorentzon at TOBLOR Consulting, phone: +46 735 11 10 60. You apply for this position through TOBLOR’s career site, www.toblor.se, by uploading your CV and personal letter. We are looking forward to seeing your application!

THULE SWEDEN AB

Bring your Life Are you passionate about leading teams, driving consumer excellence, and turning service operations into a world-class experience? If so, this role might be the right one for you. At Thule, we are looking for a Consumer Service Manager to lead and develop our consumer service team within Europe & Rest of World (EROW), ensuring we deliver outstanding support to consumers while continuously improving our ways of working. What you’ll do at Thule As Consumer Service Manager, you will lead the daily operations and development of the consumer service team, ensuring high-quality support and efficient handling of consumer cases. A core focus of the role is to build a strong, engaged team culture where performance, ownership, and continuous improvement are central. You will be responsible for driving operational excellence, including ensuring KPIs are consistently met and backlog is maintained at zero. This requires close daily follow-up of team performance, proactive workload management, and clear ownership of priorities and escalation handling. You will also play a key role in developing people and processes. This includes onboarding new employees, maintaining high product knowledge within the team, supporting performance development of team members, and taking responsibility for performance reviews and employment decisions in collaboration with stakeholders. In addition, you will act as a driving force for improvement initiatives across EROW. You will initiate, implement, and follow up on process improvements, ensure documentation and alignment across regions, and contribute to projects that increase efficiency and enhance the consumer experience. What you bring To succeed in this role, you bring solid experience in leading customer or consumer service teams, with a proven track record of driving performance, engagement, and operational excellence. You are confident in managing both people and processes, and you understand how to balance service quality with efficiency and clear KPI delivery. You have experience working with structured service environments and are comfortable taking ownership of targets such as response times, resolution rates, CSAT, and backlog management. You are highly organized, solution-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. You are a strong communicator and collaborator, able to engage effectively across functions and levels of the organization. You have a natural ability to lead, coach, and develop others, and you are not afraid to take difficult decisions when needed. Fluency in English is required. You are also comfortable working with digital tools and have an awareness of modern service technologies and trends, including AI-driven solutions and automation. Why you should join Thule At Thule, we believe in strong teamwork both within your own team but also cross functional between teams. We strive to be an open and curious organization, sharing our knowledge and inspiring one another.  Within Thule Group you will find people who have a passion for the products we make and the outdoor company we are. We share the same values, and we like to have fun. All of our employees have a joint responsibility to maintain that spirit and contribute to it. Hiring Process Apply by submitting your application and resumé through “Apply for position” on our Thule Career Site. The application deadline is July 26, 2026. Due to summer-break, we will begin reviewing applications only after the application period has closed. No screening or interviews will be conducted before that. All candidates will receive updates after the deadline. Kindly note that we do not accept applications via email. If you have any questions about the role, feel free to contact our Talent Acquisition Partner, Oscar Persson, at Oscar.persson@thule.com We look forward to hearing from you! Thule is a global sports and outdoor company. We offer high-quality products with smart features and a sustainable design that make it easy for people across the globe to live an active life. Under the motto Bring your life — and with a focus on consumer-driven innovation and long-term sustainability — we develop, manufacture and market products within the product categories Sport & Cargo Carriers (roof racks, roof boxes and carriers for transporting cycling, water and winter sports equipment, and rooftop tents mounted on a car), Active with Kids & Dogs (car seats, strollers, bike trailers, child bike seats and dog transport), RV Products (awnings, bike carriers and tents for RVs and caravans) and Bags & Mounts (backpacks, luggage and performance mounts). Thule Group has about 3,000 employees at nine production facilities and 35 sales offices worldwide. The Group’s products are sold in 138 markets and in 2025, sales amounted to SEK 10,4 billion. www.thulegroup.com

Asta Agency AB

About the Company You will be proivided with more information regarding the company during the recruitment process. Asta Agency is partnering with the company in this recruitment process. The recruitment is managed by Asta Agency, and you will be directly employed by the company upon successful placement. About the Position As Managing Director, you will hold full P&L responsibility for the business and lead the continued transformation journey from stabilisation to sustainable profitability. You will be a central leader in the organisation, responsible for production, quality, supply chain, planning, commercial development and the business’s financial performance. The role involves close collaboration with group management, the CFO, the board and internal functions within quality, finance and commercial development. You will lead a cross-functional team across two sites, creating the conditions for clear priorities, strong ownership and a shared direction. This is an opportunity to combine strategic business leadership with a visible, hands-on management style. You will be expected to create structure in the day-to-day operations, make clear decisions and ensure that improvements lead to tangible and lasting results. Your main responsibilities will include: Holding full P&L responsibility for the business’s revenue, margins and costs. Leading and delivering the business’s transformation and continuous-improvement agenda. Ensuring efficient production flow, capacity planning and resource utilisation. Driving structured work with cost control, productivity and profitability. Safeguarding high quality and regulatory compliance in a GMP-regulated environment. Developing the organisation’s structure, leadership and capabilities over time. Owning commercial priorities, pricing and margin discipline in close collaboration with the group. Establishing a clear performance-management structure with relevant KPIs, deviation management and ongoing reporting to the board and group management. Qualifications and Characteristics To succeed in this role, you are a confident, clear and action-oriented leader who thrives when responsibility and mandate are real. You work in an evidence-led manner and can quickly build a clear view of the current situation, risks and priorities. You are not afraid to make difficult decisions, while building trust through presence, communication and a genuine interest in the people within the organisation. You combine strong commercial judgement with operational understanding and see the connections between production, quality, capacity, costs and customer value. As a leader, you develop others, create clarity around responsibilities and build a culture where continuous improvement becomes a natural part of everyday work. In addition, you have: Experience of full P&L responsibility in a complex business environment. Experience of leading manufacturing, production, supply chain or another operational business. Proven experience of transformation, efficiency improvement or turnaround work in a business with clear performance requirements. Experience of capacity planning, resource management and continuous-improvement work. A strong understanding of cost control, margins and commercial priorities. Experience of Lean, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints or other operational-excellence methodologies. Experience of leading and developing managers, specialists and cross-functional teams. Excellent communication skills in Swedish and English, both written and spoken. Meritorious experience: Experience from pharmaceuticals, contract manufacturing or another GMP-regulated industry. Experience from a business with multiple production sites or international stakeholders. Experience of board reporting and working closely with owners or group management. Experience of pricing, customer contracts and commercial decision-making in a manufacturing environment. A relevant degree in engineering, operations, quality or business improvement. Additional Information Start: By agreement Location: Malmö, with some travels in the region Scope: Full-time Salary: By agreement We apply ongoing selection in this recruitment process, which means the position may be filled before the final application date. We therefore recommend submitting your application as soon as possible. If you have any questions regarding Asta Agency’s recruitment process, please do not hesitate to contact us at ellen@astaagency.se. About Asta Agency Asta Agency is a recruitment and staffing company helping businesses across Sweden find the right professionals, with a primary focus on Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. We recruit and provide consultants within sales, marketing, HR, customer service, finance, administration, IT, and tech – both specialists and generalists. With a strong focus on quality, long-term partnerships, and smart solutions, we support both companies and candidates in taking the next step. Learn more about how we work with recruitment, staffing, and temp-to-perm solutions at astaagency.se.