PD SENIOR SPECIALIST

About Skruf

Since we started with manufacturing snus in 2002, we maintained an innovative approach to constantly challenge the industry to succeed in exceeding our customers’ expectations. This requires courage and discipline, which is why we greatly appreciate the Småland heritage of professional pride and ambition that characterizes our work culture.

Due to our successful growth, we went from standing on our own two feet to now being a part of Imperial Brands, the 4th largest Tobacco company in the world, with more than 25.000 employees. Imperial Brands has a rich history that takes pride in being the challenger in the industry. Doing so, it does not only focus on its products but also contributes with great development and career opportunities.

About the role
You will support the development of new or existing products within the OND category, both traditional and Modern OND, to meet marketing, legislative and internal policies, adding value to the consumer and being superior or at least on par with competition. You are responsible for the product and blend specification maintenance and will be also supporting global and local functions in all product related questions. 
The team will consist of an international team of PD Specialist based in our Skruf Snus factory in Sävsjö and in our Polish manufacturing site in Radom.

The responsibilities also include:

• Monitoring of product performance and undertaking agreed maintenance actions to ensure product compliance.

• Implement and apply cost management activities, minimize complexity, ensure brand consistency.

• Preparation of trial runs including planning with the factories, results evaluation and documentation management.

• Participation in benchmarking evaluation, market analysis and competitor survey within region.

• Continuously seek for process and system improvements.

• Supervision of an international PD OND team, providing informal mentoring/training to junior members of the team.

• Collaborate with purpose with internal and external stakeholders.
  

Your skills and experience
The ideal candidate will have a university degree (Bachelor or Master) in Science, Engineering, Chemistry or equivalent. Basic knowledge and skills of product design, final product and manufacturing processes is viewed as essential as well as proven skills in analytical thinking, priority setting and problem solving. A core skill is the ability to communicate effectively in writing as well as orally, in both Swedish and English. To be successful in the role, the candidate must have the ability to communicate at all levels within the organisation and be a cross-functional team player.

Your personality
In the role as PD Senior Specialist, it is not only your experience and skills that is important, for us it is equally important to find a person who fits well into the group and who shares our values. We therefore believe that you are open-minded, inclusive and that you bring your true self to work every day. You thrive in a changing business and believe that we become successful by trying new things and learning from the failures. You like to take ownership, and you hold yourself accountable, most importantly you believe in yourself. You believe that by collaborating with purpose we all succeed together. Finally, you realise that we exist due to our consumers, you therefor put pride in co-creating the best possible product. 

Interested applicants should forward a letter of application highlighting their suitability for the role and a current CV in English latest on the 2025-08-17.