He has decided to move into a senior advisor role within the company and take a part-time pension, although will only move once a successor has been chosen and put in place.
In 2012, Söderqvist returned to Boliden for his second stint at the company, this time in the role of general manager for the Boliden area's mining operations and was promoted to senior vice president of corporate responsibility in 2015.
In between his two stretches at Boliden, he worked at Sandvik, where he moved up to senior vice president of marketing and sales at Sandvik Mining and Construction, after filling various other roles at the company.
