Assistant to the Sandvik Venture Management Team

Are you driven and enjoy working towards deadlines? Welcome to a challenging role where you need to be proactive and use your initiative. For the right candidate there are great opportunities to take on a larger role within the organization.

Sandvik Venture is a business area within the Sandvik Group aiming to create value through profitable growth of small to mid-sized businesses of particular interest for Sandvik. The product areas comprise Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten, Sandvik Process Systems and Sandvik Hyperion.

Key performance areas
In this role you assist the Venture Management team (except the President) and Head of Strategy with all administrative support. Your primary duties will include:
- Control of a global calendar, bookings and e-mail
- Planning and preparation of meetings including agendas and presentations
- Travel reservations and coordination of travel schedules
- Arranging and planning conferences
- Administration of expenses, invoices, databases and time and attendance approvals
- Researching, creating and updating presentations in PowerPoint
- Word processing, filing and archiving
- Involvement in the work related to the meetings
- Being the link between the team members for coordination matters

Flexible working hours are necessary periodically.

Your profile
We are looking for someone with secretarial education and/or experience from working in a global company as an Executive Assistant. You have previous experience supporting executives in a fast paced, results-oriented environment. Excellent communication skills in English and Swedish, both written and verbal are a requirement, as well as excellent skills in the Microsoft Office package.

As a person you are highly motivated and driven as well as keen to improve processes and find more effective methods. You bring fresh ideas and a "can do" attitude. In addition you have an eye for detail, have proven multi-tasking abilities and know how to prioritize to ensure that you manage time and resources efficiently. It is important that you are confident, with integrity and accountability, and used to working to deadlines, as well as being an experienced team player who can also work independently.

We actively work to create a workplace that is characterized by diversity and inclusion.

Contact information
For further information about this position, please contact:
Fredrik Söderberg, recruiting manager, +46 (0)84 561 225

Union contacts
Glenn Holm, Ledarna, +46 26 263 809
Jan Kjellgren, Unionen, +46 0 87 266583
Ernesto Coronel, Sveriges Ingenjörer, +46 0 87 266 417
Conny Ingelsson, Metall +46 0 87 266386

Send your application no later than May 8, 2014. Read more about Sandvik and apply at www.sandvik.com/career, Job ID: 330799.

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact HR Services, +46 (0)20 261 444.

Recruiter
Irene Sveen

Sandvik is a global industrial group with advanced products and world-leading positions in selected areas - tools for metal cutting, equipment and tools for the mining and construction industries, stainless materials, special alloys, metallic and ceramic resistance materials as well as process systems. In 2013 the Group had about 47,000 employees and representation in 130 countries, with annual sales of about 87,300 MSEK.