Take charge of our Automotive Lubricants & Car Care line, expand business and lead operations in the Nordics and Baltics.

We are now looking for an experienced and ambitious Business Line Director to take full responsibility for our growing and international Automotive Lubricants and Car Care Business line. This is a senior leadership role with full P&L accountability, covering operations in the Nordic and Baltic countries. You will shape the strategic direction, drive growth and profitability, and lead the organization to the next level.

In this role, you will lead and inspire high-performing sales teams and build long-term relationships with B2B customers and manage partnership with Castrol, one of our well-known principals. Your location can be either in Sweden or Finland. In this position you will report to Vice President of Lubricants.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has proven experience in leading a business line or comparable responsibility with P&L ownership.
• Brings strong strategic vision, business expertise, and a track record of driving profitable growth.
• Possesses excellent change management and transformation skills, with the ability to inspire teams through change.
• Has demonstrated success in international leadership, preferably within automotive lubricants, chemicals or related industrial sector.
• Is self-driven, development-oriented, and eager to innovate new business opportunities.
• Understands the business’s distribution channels, competitors, and market dynamics.
• Can develop both new customer relationships and private label business.
• Excels at building strategic partnerships and fostering long-term customer relationships.

Key responsibilities:

• Leading the business line across Nordics and Baltics with full P&L accountability.
• Developing and executing the strategy for Automotive Lubricants and Car Care Chemicals, ensuring sustainable growth and profitability.
• Leading, developing, recruiting and motivating international teams to deliver outstanding results.
• Building and strengthening strategic partnerships with principals and customers.
• Identifying new market opportunities, driving transformation, and improving sales processes and tools.
• Monitoring market dynamics, customer needs, and competitor activities to ensure competitive edge.

What we offer:

• A new exciting key position, where you will be responsible for a significant business area.
• You will have the opportunity to build new initiatives and develop operating models together with motivated team.
• An international, dynamic work environment with leading business partners.
• Competitive compensation and company benefits.

If you’re driven by growth in an international setting and can see yourself in the automotive sector, we want to hear from you as soon as possible. Please leave your application and CV latest 19.10.2025.

Welcome to Unleash the Telko Effect with us!

Telko is a leading distributor and solution provider of plastics, chemicals and lubricant solutions. It operates as a sustainable partner in the value chain, bringing well-known international principals and customers together. The company’s competitive edge is based on strong technical support, efficient logistics and local expert service. Telko delivers application expertise and solutions that help to improve the technical, sustainable and financial performance of the entire value chain. Telko operates in Finland, the Baltic countries, Scandinavia, Poland, Germany, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Romania, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, India and China. Telko is part of Aspo Plc, which is listed in Helsinki stock exchange.