Solva Regional Project Lead

WHO WE ARE:

Seco is a global metal cutting and machining solutions provider with a strong heritage in innovation, precision tools, and lasting partnerships. With sustainability at the heart of how we work, we help manufacturers solve complex challenges and shape the future of manufacturing through collaboration, technology, and customer-focused solutions.

Seco SOLVA is transforming manufacturing by going beyond cutting tools to deliver holistic, end-to-end solutions that improve efficiency, profitability, and competitiveness across the full production process. Built on Seco’s strong legacy, strategic partnerships, and innovative thinking, SOLVA helps manufacturers unlock their full potential through fast, easy, and sustainable solutions.

We are now looking for a Solva Regional Project Lead to lead the delivery of customer projects from agreed scope through execution, partnership, support, closure, and handover. In this role, you will coordinate cross-functional expertise, build trusted customer relationships, and help deliver measurable improvements in productivity, quality, cost, capacity, sustainability, and long-term supportability.

Job Summary: ( Flexible location within East / Central Europe )
As Solva Regional Project Lead, you will support Solva offer development and lead the end-to-end delivery of complex customer projects as an experienced individual contributor. Working through the Solva Way of Working, you will connect Solva Business Development, regional sales, the Innovation Hub, local technical teams, customers, and partners to translate manufacturing challenges into structured opportunities and measurable outcomes. You will contribute to customer Discovery and Assessment, opportunity qualification, value cases, technical proposals, Statements of Work, risks, KPIs, and alignment before taking ownership of execution quality, governance, customer communication, milestones, escalation, closure, and sustainable handover to local Seco teams. Through cross-functional coordination, coaching, and consistent use of Solva tools and standards, you will help deliver improvements in productivity, cost per part, quality, process stability, capacity, sustainability, and long-term supportability—without direct line-management responsibility.

The role involves regional travel to support opportunity assessment, customer workshops, project implementation, partner engagement, and Solva governance activities.

This role reports to the Solva Global Project Manager

Key responsibilities of the role:

Solva Offer Leadership

• Support Solva Business Development and regional sales in qualifying opportunities that require integrated manufacturing outcomes rather than standalone tooling solutions.

• Lead or support customer Discovery and Assessment activities covering capability, capacity, process efficiency, operational constraints, service needs, risks, and business opportunity.

• Translate customer challenges into structured opportunity definitions, value hypotheses, assessment scopes, and proposal inputs.

• Develop and review budgetary technical proposals, business cases, assumptions, risks, KPIs, and value propositions aligned with customer requirements and strategic goals.

• Support Statements of Work, commercial discussions, staged deliverables, customer alignment, and handover from offer shaping into delivery execution.

Solva Delivery Leadership

• Lead and govern complex Solva project delivery in line with the Solva Way of Working: Discovery, Assessment, Proposal, Agreement, Execution, Partnership, and Support.

• Own execution quality, customer communication, action tracking, milestones, risk management, escalation, and delivery performance.

• Ensure projects deliver measurable outcomes across productivity, cost per part, quality, process stability, capacity, sustainability, and long-term supportability.

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

• Coach local Technical Sales Engineers, Account Managers, and