Seco - Global Inventory Lead

Description: Are you ready to shape the future of inventory management on a global scale? As our Global Inventory Lead, you play a pivotal role in developing and executing strategies that optimize stock levels, improve efficiency, and strengthen financial performance across regions. This is an exciting opportunity to influence decision-making, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and deliver measurable results that drive business success.

Shortly About Us: Were transforming into a unified, intelligent supply chain that anticipates needs, empowers people, and drives profitable growth. This is a step toward creating a world-class customer experience through streamlined processes, advanced analytics, and sustainable logistics. By modernizing technology and fostering a high-performing, collaborative culture, were building an end-to-end supply chain that delivers reliability, transparency, and efficiency.

About The Job: In this position, youre responsible for developing and executing strategies to optimize global inventory levels, reduce working capital, and improve cash flow across our organization. You collaborate with supply chain and cross-functional teams, including finance, product owners, manufacturing, and sales, to drive inventory efficiency, minimize obsolescence, and ensure alignment with business and customer needs. You report to the Head of Global Planning.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading global inventory strategy to optimize stock levels across regions and business units.

- Monitoring and managing inventory KPIs, including Days in Inventory (DII), Obsolete and slow-moving inventory (DSMI).

- Partnering with demand planning, supply planning, and logistics to ensure inventory availability while minimizing holding costs.

- Driving continuous improvement initiatives and assessing a wide range of inventory policies and controls.

- Revising inventory segmentation and stocking policies to balance service levels and cost.

- Leading benchmarking initiatives and implementing best practices to reduce working capital tied up in inventory.

- Acting as a global point of contact for inventory ownership and NWC initiatives, aligning finance, procurement, manufacturing, and sales teams.

The location for this position is globally flexible, preferably close to one of our sites such as Fagersta & Stockholm (Sweden), Guanzate (Italy), Pune (India), Bourges & Bouxwiller (France), Lottum (Netherlands), Ciechanow (Poland) or Reynoldsville (US).

Your profile:

- Were looking for someone with experience in inventory management and working capital optimization in a global context.

- Youre skilled in analyzing end-to-end cash conversion cycles, interpreting inventory-related components, and using KPIs such as DSO (Days of Sales Outstanding), DPO (Days of Payables Outstanding), and DII.

- Youre comfortable working with financial data and translating insights into actionable strategies. Acting in a global environment calls for fluency in English.

Youre a strong communicator and collaborator who thrives in cross-functional environments. You have a proactive mindset, the ability to influence stakeholders, and a talent for driving alignment across diverse teams. Problem-solving and strategic thinking come naturally to you, and youre motivated by delivering measurable improvements.

Our Seco culture: At Seco, we're united by a spirit of collaboration and a shared curiosity to learn and grow. We take responsibility for our actions, stay focused on our customers, and believe in winning together. For us, its also clear that our diversities form an amazing foundation for achieving great results. Curious about our workplace and benefits? Read more on our website. Youre also welcome to visit our LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know usand our products further.