[1] Edholm worked as political advisor within the European Parliament from 1995 to 1996, having served as campaign leader of the Yes to Europe [sv] organization prior to the 1994 European Union membership referendum.
Edholm was employed at Electrolux from 1997 to 2011 in a number of different roles, beginning as VP Group Internet Communications, later as VP Communications for Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Latin America and as VP Media Relations and Issues Management and finally as SVP Corporate Communications.
From 2011 to 2017, he was employed at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise as Head of Regional Affairs.
Edholm returned to the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise on March 1, 2019, as head of the organisation's EU office in Brussels.
Since February 1, 2021,[2] he is Senior Vice President Communications at SCA, Europe's largest private forest owner and manufacturer of wood products, pulp, containerboard and renewable energy.