Category Manager - machined parts & welding to Alimak Group Sweden

Job Summary

Shape the future of strategic sourcing in a global industrial company! Are you motivated by creating business impact, developing supplier partnerships and driving improvements across cost, quality and delivery? Do you want to work in an international environment where your decisions make a real difference, from product development to operational performance? Alimak Group Sweden is looking for a Category Manager to join our sourcing team in Skellefteå. In this role, you will take an active part in developing and implementing sourcing strategies for key categories within machined parts and welding, working closely with our factories in Sweden, Poland and China, as well as with colleagues across the global Alimak Group. You are functionally reporting to the Director Sourcing & Financial Control. As Category Manager, you will play a key role in strengthening our supplier base, improving Total Cost of Ownership and supporting our continued journey toward a more competitive, efficient and future-ready sourcing organization.

Requirements and Experience

Your role • Actively develop and implement sourcing strategies for your category. • Lead supplier negotiations, frame agreements and price list management. • Drive productivity improvements and cost-out initiatives with R&D and Operations. • Contribute to new product development from a sourcing and supplier perspective. • Lead and support cross-functionally with make-or-buy analysis and related projects • Monitor and improve supplier performance in areas such as quality, on-time delivery, lead time and cost. • Work closely with stakeholders across the factories in Sweden, Poland, China and other Alimak Group locations. Who we are looking for • A master’s or bachelor’s degree in engineering, economics, or relevant experience within strategic sourcing and supply chain of at least 5 years. • Strong negotiation skills and commercial understanding. • A result-oriented mindset combined with strong analytical ability. • Good communication, networking, and excellent at creating relationships with suppliers as well as cross-functional internally. • Professional proficiency in English and Swedish, both verbally and written, is mandatory. • Ability to manage your own work and take initiatives in line with defined targets. Experience from an industrial, manufacturing or engineering-driven environment is valuable, especially if you have worked with technical categories, supplier development or c.ross-functional cost improvement projects. Why join Alimak? At Alimak, you become part of a company with a strong industrial heritage, global reach and a clear purpose: to provide safe, reliable and efficient vertical access solutions for customers around the world. You will join a workplace where collaboration, problem-solving and continuous improvement are central parts of everyday work. The role offers the opportunity to influence sourcing decisions, contribute to product and supplier development, and create visible business impact across several countries. We also care about the wellbeing of our employees and support an active lifestyle. Alimak offers benefits such as flexible working hours, compensation for dental care, massage and fitness activities, access to an on-site gym, support through contracted health partners, discounted hockey tickets, access to a recreational cabin in the Swedish mountains and company-funded team-building activities.

About the company

Alimak Group Sweden AB is a part of Alimak Group, a global market leader in vertical access solutions for industry and the construction sector with a strong commitment on enhancing customer safety, productivity and profitability. The Group has been a pioneer and an industry leader in supplying elevators, hoists and work platforms based on rack-and-pinion technology for 70 years. Alimak has a broad and competitive product range of vertical access solutions, such as hoists, elevators and building maintenance units (BMUs). The products vary between standard and customer specific hoists and elevators adapted for different customer needs and market segments. Alimak Group has sales in more than 100 countries. The business extends over the entire value chain, from product development, manufacturing, marketing, distribution, sales and after sales. Alimak’s broad range of aftermarket services, mostly focused on the Group’s installed base form an essential part of its value proposition for its customers. The Group’s products and solutions are sold under the brands Alimak, Scanclimber, CoxGomyl, Manntech, Avanti, and Tractel, brands with strong market recognition and known for their strong safety record, high quality and durability. About Skellefteå Skellefteå is the largest coastal municipality in Norrland and Sweden, and a place with superior conditions for awakening new thoughts, realizing dreams and choosing their own path. With varied seasons, rich natural resources, short distances and a strongly rooted culture of creativity, entrepreneurship and equal meetings, we create time and space to grow through what is perhaps the most valuable: our own and each other's ideas.

Contact information

Does this sound like your next challenge? We look forward to receiving your application! In this recruitment, Alimak collaborates with Wikan Personnel. Please submit your resume (CV) and cover letter latest by May 31st, 2026, through the link at Wikan's website. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis. The role is full time and you will be based in Skellefteå, Sweden. Alimak strives to have a diverse and inclusive work environment and we welcome female candidates to apply. Recruiting Manager Gustaf Nyström, +46 70 229 56 83, will answer your questions about the position. Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have with a recruitment consultant, Karin Nygren, e-mail: karin@wikan.se. Unions representatives: Andre Fageryd, e-mail: andre.fageryd@alimakgroup.com