Mikael Åhlqvist

Operations Manager at Dentatus
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Location
Täby, Stockholm County, Sweden, SE
Languages
  • Swedish Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English Full professional proficiency

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Experience

    • Sweden
    • Medical Device
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Operations Manager
      • Aug 2022 - Present
    • Sweden
    • Medical Equipment Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Sr. Operations Manager
      • Nov 2013 - May 2021

      Sr. Operations Manager with responsibility for the Operations organization including Production, Production engineering, Purchasing and Logistics with five direct reports and a total organization of about 30 people. Member of the Company management team. Since my start in 2013 we have grown rapidly and at the same time made big improvements in productivity, yield and delivery capacity with basically the same level of staffing. My focus has been to drive improvements and problem solving, improve the work environment, engage the team and achieve operational targets. Also, since end 2019 I have been the Swedish Project Manager for transferring the entire operations function including production to the corporate production site in Mexico and closing the Swedish Operations function. Show less

    • Sweden
    • Mining
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Quality & Continuous Improvement, Wire
      • Mar 2013 - Oct 2013

      Worked in the Quality and Continuous improvement team supporting the organization within quality management as well as transfer of production between manufacturing sites.

    • Supply Line Manager, Spring Wire & Energy
      • Jul 2012 - Feb 2013

      Supply Line Manager where I managed the supply line of spring wire and energy products. Coached five direct reports with a total organization of about 30 people.

    • Flow Manager, Spring Wire & Energy
      • Nov 2011 - Jun 2012

      Flow Manager, where I was responsible for production of spring wire and energy products with about 25 direct reports. I started the assignment after a fire where 50% of the facility had been destroyed. My focus was to support the project to rebuild the facility, meet customer demands and coach the team.

    • Lean Manufacturing Navigator
      • Aug 2010 - Oct 2011

      Lean Manufacturing Navigator where I was member of the Navigator team, an internal consulting group supporting improvement and manufacturing transfer projects within the SMT business area worldwide.

    • Business Assurance Advisor, Sandvik MedTech
      • Jan 2009 - Aug 2010

      Business Assurance Advisor working with implementation of a global Quality Management System covering all units within Product Area MedTech (USA, UK, Germany) including crises and continuity planning.

    • Project Manager for Special Projects within Sales, Sandvik MedTech
      • Mar 2008 - Dec 2008

      Focus on sales and marketing integration projects for acquired companies in USA and UK with the aim of implementing common ways of working worldwide.

    • Strategic Marketing, Sandvik MedTech
      • Jul 2007 - Feb 2008

      Strategic Marketing for Product Area MedTech where I was responsible for marketing and internal communications. Created the marketing management and internal communications functions and transferred these to a new Marketing Manager role before I moved into new challenges. Worked with the VP of Sales and Marketing to create the branding strategy and communications.

    • Biotechnology Research
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • CEO Assistant & driving the marketing function
      • Jan 2005 - Jun 2007

      I was the right hand of the CEO as his CEO assistant and responsible for driving the marketing function in this Public Company. I was the right hand of the CEO as his CEO assistant and responsible for driving the marketing function in this Public Company.

    • Manager
      • Aug 2003 - Jan 2004

      Consulting Manager with responsibility for communication with the consultants as well as working with recruitment and training together with the founder. Consulting Manager with responsibility for communication with the consultants as well as working with recruitment and training together with the founder.

    • CEO
      • Jan 2002 - May 2003

      CEO from January 2002 through May 2003. HandelsConsulting is a leading student consultancy with, at that time, two full-time employees and 35 part-time employees. I led and coached the management team and the consultants as well as worked with sales of our services and developed the company´s offering. During this period a new business area was started through co-operation with students from Chalmers Technical University, which was later converted into an independent company, Chalmers Technical Consultants (CTK). Show less

Education

  • School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg
    Master of Science, Accounting and Finance
    2000 - 2002
  • University of Otago
    Bachelor of Commerce, Marketing Management
    1999 - 2000
  • Umeå University
    Completed 2,5 years toward a Bachelor of Science, Business and Economics
    1996 - 1999
  • Tärnaby Skidhem
    Upper Secondary School
    1991 - 1994

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