Careers

Our vision is to improve life quality wherever we operate.

We are growing fast, and we are looking for a Marketing Intern to join our global commercial team to work with exciting marketing projects and grow with us. This is an exciting opportunity for you who wants to apply your marketing skills promoting our brand and solutions to customers all over the world. This position is located in in Uppsala Sweden or Mariehamn Åland.  

Who are you?

You are undergoing or you have recently completed an MSc level marketing education, and you are looking to apply your skills and gain international experience.

What will you do?

• Support and drive global marketing projects including rollout of new branding and promotion programs.

• Collaborate with external partners and our commercial teams around the world.

• Support the creation of new marketing content and promotion programs for our different channels including web, social media, and exhibitions.

• Support our sale offices with marketing materials.

Other tasks which may keep you busy:

• Conducting market research and analyzing customer feedback data

• Contributing to internal reports, marketing literature and product information

• Data entry and analysis.

Desired education and qualification:

• Minimum BSc level education in marketing or communication.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office, including PowerPoint and Excel.
• Experience from managing or updating online web content is a strong merit.
• Strong English skills (verbal and in writing). Communication skills in Swedish is also a merit.
• The more languages you speak and write, the more impressed we are.
• Good people skills – knows how to influence and solve problems in collaboration with others.
• Demonstrated experience creating results in teams (we are looking for a team player not a lone star).
• You are proactive and can work independently– you get stuff done without having to be told.
• You want to learn and become better at what you do.
• You like to have fun with your teammates.

The position:

The assignment is an internship until June 30, 2024, with a possibility to transform to a permanent employment, if mutually agreed. You could work part time or full time (between 20-40 hours/week), we are flexible. Start date is as soon as we find the right person.
The Optinova Group is a leading global supplier of advanced tubing solutions for the global medical device industry and for highly advanced industrial applications. We use our experience and knowledge in extrusion, combined with a sustainable business mindset, to develop top quality components which are part of innovative solutions, increasing the quality of everyday life. Our promise is ‘When quality matters’.
Interested?

The job requires good Swedish skills and is therefore advertised in Swedish.

Optinova Godby Ab är en av världens främsta tillverkare av avancerad polymerslang för medicinskt bruk. Vi är över 180 anställda i Godbyfabriken och vi tillhör Optinovakoncernen med ca 600 anställda globalt. Optinova är känt för sin höga kvalitet på produkterna, som tillverkas i våra fabriker på Åland, i USA och Thailand, både för medicinskt och industriellt bruk.

Tillsammans med detaljplanerarna ansvarar du för material- och produktionsstyrningen för hela Godbyfabriken, du är samordnare mellan våra säljkontor, kunder och detaljplanerarna i Godby. Du kommer att ha ett nära samarbete med våra globala säljkontor, vår Sales & Operations Planning Manager och utvecklingscenter samt med Optinovas globala ekonomiavdelning och inköp gällande prognoser för råmaterial, tillverkningsvolymer och kapacitetsanalyser.

Arbetsplatsen är i Godby, Åland eller i Uppsala, Sverige, med återkommande besök i Godby.

Till dina arbetsuppgifter hör att:

• bedöma och bekräfta leveranstider på kundorders i samråd med detaljplanerarna
• prognostisera material- och kapacitetsbehov i samråd med säljkontoren, inköp och detaljplanerarna
• analysera och skapa en tydlig överblick för långsiktiga kapacitet- och resursbehov, lagersaldon, råmaterialförbrukning
• arbeta i ekonomistyrningssystemet med prognoser och utfall
• skapa rapporter utifrån prognoser, behov och resurser
• etablera en balans mellan lagervolymer, tillverkning mot ekonomisk orderkvantitet (EOK) och en hög leveransprecision till kund
• delta aktivt i projekt och ansvara för aktiviteter och delmål
• arbeta målstyrt med 3–5 årsplaner

Vi söker dig som:

• har grundlig och djupgående kunskap om ERP-system, Material och produktionsstyrning samt produktions- och kapacitetsplanering
• har en eftergymnasial utbildning, exempelvis inom industriell ekonomi eller liknande
• har erfarenhet av planering, prognostisering, för- och efterkalkylering (gärna i Monitor)
• är en duktig kommunikatör på flytande svenska och engelska
• har en genuint positiv inställning och bemöter alla med respekt och vänlighet
• är en sann teamplayer – med allt vad det innebär – och tar varje chans till att samarbeta
• är driven och trivs med att arbeta med utmaningar och problemlösning
• är noggrann och har god analytisk förmåga

Vi erbjuder ett spännande jobb där du får vara med och ta planering, material- och produktionsstyrning till nästa nivå. Det här är en möjlighet att jobba inom en intressant bransch i en organisation i en expansiv fas och vars högsta syfte är att öka kvalitén i vardagen för människor.

Anställningen är tillsvidare, heltid och jobbet sker dagtid.

Intresserad?

Ansök då snarast möjligast men senast 14 december. Vi kommer börja intervjua omgående, så vänta inte med att skicka in din ansökan.

Har du frågor är du välkommen att kontakta Linda Sundström, Fabrikschef, tel. +358 40 6623153 eller Nadia Elamidi på +358 457 3570065.
(OBS – vi tar inte emot ansökningar via e-mail, du söker genom att klicka på “Ansök” där du fyller i din ansökan).

The Optinova Group is one of the leading global suppliers of advanced tubing solutions for the medical device industry, as well as fluoropolymer tubing for challenging industrial applications, with the purpose of improving quality of everyday life wherever we operate. Our factories are in Jomala and Godby, Åland, Bangkok Thailand and Valley Forge, USA.

Your next opportunity?

As the Global Continuous Improvement Manager you will drive the implementation of the Optinova’s Lean System across our four factories to deliver customer value, top quality, and operational efficiencies. You will work closely with the plant management teams and the sites lean champions to implement and develop the Optinova Lean System to deliver the group short-term and long-terms goals. Your role will be essential to Optinova and our continuous ways of working.

The workplace is located at the Nordic sales office in Uppsala, Sweden, or the headquarter office in Mariehamn, Åland.

Your key responsibility areas will be:

• Implement and develop the Optinova Lean System
•  Ensure a harmonized visual management system across all plants
• Run Kaizen events to address largest waste “buckets” together with local lean champions
• Train and develop local Lean champions in systematic problem solving (ex.8D)
• Follow-up progress and secure execution in the local improvement projects to achieve the planned results
• Ensure global knowledge sharing and harmonization in ways of working for Total Productive Maintenance, Systematic Problem Solving
• Support the factory leadership in improvement project idea generation, project chartering, action planning and implementation
• Challenge the Global Operational Team to take the next steps towards excellence in the tubing extrusion business and benchmark with the best in the world for Lean Production.

You

To succeed in this role, we believe that you have at least 10 years of work experience in operational excellence and driving organizational development. You have experience in leading people, coaching leaders in Lean and in change management. You have an understanding of Capex intensive manufacturing environments and the importance of Overall Equipment Efficiency as well as Flow Efficiency. We believe that you have a BSc or MSc in Engineering, or equivalent work experience.

You have strong communication skills and experience in working with different stakeholders.   You have good social skills to build trust, collaboration, contacts and network with production support team within Optinova. This position requires good communication skills in English and Swedish.

Interested?

For questions about the role, please contact Nadia Elamidi +358 457 3570065. We will start interviewing right away so make sure to apply as soon as possible, but at the latest 20.11.2023. We only accept applications through the system.

The Optinova Group is one of the leading global suppliers of advanced tubing solutions for the medical device industry, as well as fluoropolymer tubing for challenging industrial applications, with the purpose of improving quality of everyday life wherever we operate. Our factories are in Jomala and Godby, Åland, Bangkok Thailand and Valley Forge, USA.

Your next opportunity?

Global Sales & Operations Planning Manager (S&OP) drives the process for Sales and Operational Planning that entails sales forecasting based on data driven trends, customer project pipeline, realistic capacity utilization levels, capacity build-up projects, efficiency programs and material supply globally.

The role is to harmonize and simplify our ways of working to visualize our current and future value streams and their order, book incoming customer projects and analyze availability for additional growth. You will develop and implement processes, and leverage and develop existing tools for data driven decision. You will collaborate closely with the Sales Managers from all regions, Master Planners, Supply Chain Managers in the factories to ensure implementation of the plans and proactive communication from the factories about our current and future delivery capabilities.

You will also develop and implement an Inventory Management Handbook to professionalize the processes for inventory management (ABC value, XYZ variation) and ABC velocity for optimized warehousing to reduce working capital and improve our service level to customers.

The workplace is located at the Nordic sales office in Uppsala, Sweden, or the headquarter office in Mariehamn, Åland.

You
To succeed in this role, we believe that you have at least 5 years of work experience in data driven Sales & Operation Planning and are skilled in the tools used in the profession. We believe that you have some experience in supply chain management and understand the value chain, the executional part included.

You are a good communicator and have experience from working internationally.

If you also understand Capex intensive manufacturing environments and the importance of Project Management and execution, this might be the position for you.

You are good at strategic thinking and have good skills in data modelling, data processing and analytics. You are strong in simplifying complex global processes and have experience in senior management level presentations and influence.

Interested?

For questions about the role, please contact Nadia Elamidi +358 457 3570065. We will start interviewing right away so make sure to apply as soon as possible, but at the latest 08.12.2023. We only accept applications through the system.