Mats Danielsson Email & Phone Number

Göteborg, Västra Götalands Län, Sverige

Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County, Sweden

The main objective of this role is to increase the operational efficiency of our manufacturing operations, this is executed through a number of well-defined work streams.One such work stream relates to the development and maintenance of Bulten's manufacturing strategy and footprint. These strategic elements are tactically executed through a global Operational Excellence programme under my responsibility, the Bulten Production System, which is a combination of several concepts, such as Lean, TPM, TQM.Another work stream where this role has a key part relates to the identification and motivation of new investments - e.g. increased capacity, new/strategic manufacturing capabilities, digitisation.Part of the responsibility is as well to manage a global Project Management Office, through which all major projects and initiatives within the Group are governed.Other duties within the role are to conduct pre-studies and execute industrial projects, promote the use of internal manufacturing capabilities as an alternative to external sourcing.

Gothenburg, Sweden

In September 2015 I took up the position as Vice President of Quality and Environment for Bulten Group, responsible of all in-house manufacturing quality, supplier quality and as well for leading the Groups' environmental work.The position is a member of the Bulten Group Extended (Operations) Management Team headed by the Group CEO, and chairs the Group's Quality Management Team as well as the Group's Environment Management Team.Main objectives of the position is to minimize operational and supplier quality risk, with the ultimate target of continuoulsy improving customer satisfaction. At disposal are eight site quality organisations headed by site quality managers, a supplier quality assurance department and Head Office support staff.

Beijing, China

A shorter assignment as interim Managing Director of Bulten's Chinese operations.Main task was to execute the relocation of the Beijing operations to Tianjin, to get the production up and running without delivery issues and to have the Bulten Production System up and running on the new site.

Gothenburg, Sweden

After almost six years at Bulten Sweden, including two children and an MBA degree, I was drafted to the Group Headquarter and a position as Purchasing and Quality Manager, reporting to the Senior Vice President Purchasing and Quality.This position had a clear objective to coordinate purchasing and quality acitivities within the Group to find areas of improvements. This was done via targeted inititatives and projects but just as much effort was spent on developing common systems to harmonize operational procedures with the target to be more efficient.One objective was to professionalize the purchasing activities by leading a project to develop a Purchasing Portal for the Global Purchase team, a commercial tool to log saving activities as well as keeping track of supplier performance.Another project worth mentioning was the development of a Global Claim Handling system, an 8D portal according to Automotive standards, a system that is used at all Bulten sites world wide.

Gothenburg, Sweden

After almost four years within the Finnveden Group I left to join Bulten and the position as Quality Manager for Bulten Sweden. As Quality Manager at Bulten Sweden I was in charge of three areas, claim management, part sign off (PPAP) and a technical centre.One of the main objectives for the team was to react quickly on quality alerts, rapidly put containments activities in place to protect the customer and once in place, together with the causing party, conclude on a root cause and implement corrective and preventive actions whereever the problem occured, within Bulten production units or external suppliers.A second main objective for the team was to sign off new parts so that serial deliveries could be started, this was done using the automotive PPAP procedure. A properly conducted PPAP procedure is a requirement to prevent future quality concerns.The last main objective relates to the technical centre where dimensional and functional tests were performed in order to make sure that only conforming parts were shipped to our customers.

Gothenburg, Sweden, And Bielsko Biala, Poland

After the Purchasing Controller position, working with non-automotive purchasing for the Finnveden Group, I was drafted by one of the Business Areas within the Group as Purchasing Manager for the Die Casting Operations. I was responsible for the commodity strategy and tactical purchasing of direct production material for two die casting plants within the business unit and member of the Central Purchasing Team reporting to the Vice President of Purchasing.Main objective for the position was to secure continuous supply of input materials to the manufacturing sites - on time, with the right quality and with yearly cost improvements. Main tasks in this position were to identify potential suppliers, negotiate frame contracts and then successfully introduce the supplier to the sites using automotive project management tools. Once a supplier was launched and serial deliveries started main tasks consisted of performance follow up, supplier assessments and contract negotiations but also dealing with day-to-day issues to keep production lines running at all times.

Gothenburg, Sweden

This position was part of the Finnveden Group Purchasing Council, with representatives from all Business Areas within the Group, with the task to find commercial opportunities in the area of 'non-automotive' parts and services. Primary position objective was to reduce the cost level within the spend scope of the position. This was strategically targeted by increasing the bargaining power towards the supply base by gathering the total spend of the whole Finnveden Group, negotiate better terms and conditions and in the end achieve a lower overall spend.One major project was to look in to the freight situation within the Group that, at the time, was very fragmented with several forwarders on the same flows with a highly diversified cost structure. This was targeted by analysing the goods flows within all Finnveden subsidiaries, find the best overall situation for the Group based on parameters such as cost, quality and service and then implement the strategy throughout the Group together with colleagues all over Europe.

Master'S Degree, Business Administration (Mba)

Part time

Internal Corporate Program

Part time

Internal Corporate Program

Part time

Business Economics

Several courses Part time

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Full time