Director, Selection Operational Excellence

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.

Coupang

About Coupang Coupang is reimagining the shopping experience with the goal of wowing each customer from the moment they open the Coupang app to the moment an order is delivered to their door. Powered by an end-to-end e-commerce and logistics network and a culture of customer obsession, Coupang has redefined tradeoffs between speed, selection, and price. We provide fast delivery on millions of items, including fresh groceries, delivered within hours nationwide, 365 days a year. South Korea represents one of the most dynamic and fast-growing e-commerce markets globally, and Coupang continues to lead through innovation and operational excellence. Key Responsibilities 1. Global Vendor Supply Chain Management (SCM) * Drive logistics quality improvement by optimizing costs and leadtime while reinforcing on-time delivery execution. * Maintain relationships and, in partnership with the procurement team, lead negotiations with logistic partners to ensure optimal cost, quality, and service levels. * Monitor third party vendors performance and drive continuous improvement initiatives across logistic operations. * Lead systems improvements aligning with cross functional teams to the benefit of all global businesses at Coupang. * Get ahead of supply chain swan events and, where possible programmatically approach opportunity areas to stabilise COGS impact for our business (i.e. managing our currency hedging programme in collaboiration with Treasury department).   2. Global and local Vendors In-Stock Management (ISM) * Develop in-stock plans that balance cost, quality, speed, and innovation. * Collaborate with business, excellence, planning, and finance teams to improve forecasting accuracy and optimise Days of Coverage (DoC), balancing Lost GMV minimization and tight controls overs Aging Inventory. * Build frameworks to drive shifts in supplier capabilities and market conditions for both local and global vendors, including solving for Product Returns deploying more efficient out of country inbounding programmes aimed at reducing minimum order quantities across global vendors. * Lead systems and mechanisms improvements, aligning with cross functional and category teams, innovating across both to ensure a reduction in manual workload and scaling efficiency for the RSA in-stock team. * Innovate across core product groups to step change our capabilities to deliver product processing capabilities in-house or via third party vendors serving the business team plans to grow GMV and improve margins (i.e. in-house ripening systems for imported avocados).   3. Regulatory Governance (RG) Management * Ensure business continuity running in compliance with local and international regulations, minimizing any risk to customers at all time. * Run an agile and business-enabling RG team with mechanisms entrenched across our wider-team processes. * Simplify our compliance approach, making our processes and lawful requirements digestible to internal and external parties (esp. new vendors) but sophisticated enough to pre-empt defects and fix, at speed, ensuing issues. * Scalability through solid partnerships with 3rd party agencies and a shift in team culture from single category specialist to multi-category generalist, SLA reductions via process improvements and bottleneck removals, Suppliers compliance system deployment and scaling, Audits clearance through solid engagement of governmental agencies are the core areas to manage in order to ensure our Regulatory affairs team serves as an enabler and never as a bottleneck. * Innovate to weed out low added value manual work areas, establishing a strong network across other Coupang businesses with RG/compliance functions, driving a unified agenda to AI driven innovation.   4. Strategic and P&L Management * Take full P&L responsibility across the lines impacted by managed teams * Data analytics development across all of your areas of ownership in collaboration with the excellence team to be able to maintain visibility on your team KPIs and identify opportunity areas. * Drive a programmatic approach to innovation, acting as an owner and identifying step-change opportunity areas that will serve us to scale GMV, reduce costs and leadtimes, increasing optionality. * Coordinate with cross-functional teams to support these projects and ensure alignment with broader business goals. * Take full management responsibility for ensuring game-changing major projects are delivered and executed successfully, meeting budget, quality, and timeline expectations. * Conduct regular quantitative and qualitative business-case analyses to improve operational processes and ensure logistics operations are fully equipped to support business growth.   5. Leadership & Vision * Hire and develop high-performing teams, cultivating future leaders. * Build and leverage relationships with fulfillment and operational service provider partners to drive negotiation and collaboration. * Serve as a Senior Leadership team member, helping define and provide forward-looking strategic vision for the business. * Break silos and identify opportunities that go further than the areas you directly manage, adding value and minimizing waste.   Recruitment Process and Others Recruitment Process * Application Review - Phone Interview - Onsite (or Virtual Onsite) Interview – Offer * The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances. * Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage. Details to Consider * This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled. * Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process. * Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veteran's benefits, the disabled, etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws. * Job titles and responsibilities may be subject to change depending on the candidate's overall experience, etc. This will be communicated to the candidate at the appropriate time before the offer. * Hiring may be restricted if the legal qualifications required for hiring and work performance are not met. * This is a full-time regular position and includes 12 weeks of probation period; provided, however, the probationary period may be either skipped, shortened or extended if necessary for business purposes. Privacy Notice • Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice located below. https://privacy.coupang.com/en/land/jobs/ Document Return Policy * This notification is given pursuant to Article 11 (6) of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act. * A job applicant, who has applied but not been finally selected for a position at Coupang (the "Company"), may request the Company to return his/her hiring documents submitted pursuant to the Fair Hiring Procedure Act. However, this will not apply where the hiring documents were submitted via the website of the Company or e-mail, or where the job applicant submitted those documents voluntarily without a request from the Company. In addition, if the hiring documents were destroyed due to a natural disaster or any other reasons not attributable to the Company, such documents will be deemed to have been returned to the job applicant. * A job applicant who wishes to request the return of his/her hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above should fill out a "Request for Return of Hiring Documents" [Annex Form No. 3 in the Enforcement Rule of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act] and submit It by email (recruitingops@coupang.com). In such case, within fourteen (14) days from the date of identifying the receipt of the request, the Company will send the hiring documents to the job applicant's designated address via registered mail. Please be informed that the job applicant is required to pay the postage on the registered mail. * In preparation for a job applicant's request for the return of hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above, the Company shall retain the original hiring documents submitted by the job applicant for 180 days from the completion of the recruiting process. If no request is made until the end of this period, all his/her hiring documents will be destroyed immediately in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act. * The above paragraphs 1 - 4 shall only apply when the labor-related laws of Korea govern the application. They are otherwise not applicable.

Coupang

About Coupang Coupang is reimagining the shopping experience with the goal of wowing each customer from the moment they open the Coupang app to the moment an order is delivered to their door. Powered by an end-to-end e-commerce and logistics network and a culture of customer obsession, Coupang has redefined tradeoffs between speed, selection, and price. We provide fast delivery on millions of items, including fresh groceries, delivered within hours nationwide, 365 days a year. South Korea represents one of the most dynamic and fast-growing e-commerce markets globally, and Coupang continues to lead through innovation and operational excellence.   Role Overview To ensure stable operation of Coupang's fintech business, we establish credit strategies, operate related systems, and monitor risk. Coupang Pay aims to improve customers' financial experience by launching innovative credit products as well as payment services. Therefore, we are looking for talented individuals with excellent problem-solving and execution skills who can proactively build business processes, systems, and policies. * This role involves attracting, growing and inspiring the team, fostering an innovative environment and strategically using data to monitor and implement credit strategies of working capital/lending products. * Drives innovation in credit risk strategies practices by staying informed of industry trends, emerging risks and emerging technologies and incorporating best practices into the company’s credit risk framework. * Leads continuous improvement initiatives to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of credit strategic management systems and processes.   What you will do: * Establishes and improves credit strategies/underwriting policies and credit risk assessment processes, including underwriting criteria, credit risk management systems and processes.  * Responsible for leading, motivating and managing the credit team, especially for consumer lending/working capital products * Oversees the credit strategy and aligns credit risk management efforts with overall business objectives. * Prepares and presents comprehensive credit risk reports to executives and other relevant stakeholders.   Essential Qualifications: * 10+ years of experience in credit strategies/underwriting strategies roles within fintech or banking industry for consumer/SME lending and working capital products * Proven track record of developing and implementing effective credit risk strategies/underwriting strategies * Strong understanding of credit risk strategies and CSS/risk models * Experience and knowledge of the development and deployment of credit workflows   Preferred Qualifications:  * Strong experience and knowledge of consumer lending and working capital * Experience in designing credit/underwriting policies when launching new products   Recruitment Process and Others Recruitment Process * Application Review - Phone Interview - Onsite (or Virtual Onsite) Interview – Offer * The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances. * Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage.   Details to Consider * This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled. * Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process. * Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veteran's benefits, the disabled, etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws. * Job titles and responsibilities may be subject to change depending on the candidate's overall experience, etc. This will be communicated to the candidate at the appropriate time before the offer. * Hiring may be restricted if the legal qualifications required for hiring and work performance are not met. * This is a full-time regular position and includes 12 weeks of probation period; provided, however, the probationary period may be either skipped, shortened or extended if necessary for business purposes.   Privacy Notice • Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice located below. https://privacy.coupang.com/en/land/jobs/   Document Return Policy * This notification is given pursuant to Article 11 (6) of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act. * A job applicant, who has applied but not been finally selected for a position at Coupang (the "Company"), may request the Company to return his/her hiring documents submitted pursuant to the Fair Hiring Procedure Act. However, this will not apply where the hiring documents were submitted via the website of the Company or e-mail, or where the job applicant submitted those documents voluntarily without a request from the Company. In addition, if the hiring documents were destroyed due to a natural disaster or any other reasons not attributable to the Company, such documents will be deemed to have been returned to the job applicant. * A job applicant who wishes to request the return of his/her hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above should fill out a "Request for Return of Hiring Documents" [Annex Form No. 3 in the Enforcement Rule of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act] and submit It by email (recruitingops@coupang.com). In such case, within fourteen (14) days from the date of identifying the receipt of the request, the Company will send the hiring documents to the job applicant's designated address via registered mail. Please be informed that the job applicant is required to pay the postage on the registered mail. * In preparation for a job applicant's request for the return of hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above, the Company shall retain the original hiring documents submitted by the job applicant for 180 days from the completion of the recruiting process. If no request is made until the end of this period, all his/her hiring documents will be destroyed immediately in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act. * The above paragraphs 1 - 4 shall only apply when the labor-related laws of Korea govern the application. They are otherwise not applicable.