Business Area Segment General Counsel - Sandvik Manufacturing Solutions

Our Business Area Segment Sandvik Manufacturing Solutions is on an exciting growth journey, building the new digital era of manufacturing, and we have the know-how and innovative mindset to develop ideas into pioneering tech solutions. Adding your strategic mind and entrepreneurial outlook, we are ready to lead this work, raise the bar higher, and enforce our position as the number one industrial player.
Sandvik Manufacturing Solutions is a business area segment within Sandvik Group – with revenues that will reach a run-rate of over 2 billion SEK by the end of 2021 and around 1500 people worldwide incorporating the three divisions of Design & Planning Automation, Additive Manufacturing and Metrology. Areas where we hold leading market positions and are uniquely positioned due to our extensive industrial experience and expertise in advanced materials, materials shaping and digital solutions. Our ambition is to grow the business to 4 billion SEK before 2025 through organic growth in combination with M&A.
Right now, we’re looking for an agile, networking and organized doer to join us as General Counsel. We offer a stimulating position with a broad legal scope, right in the center of our multinational business. Are you ready to embark on an exciting Sandvik corporate legal career where you get the chance to drive legal innovation and shape best practices in digital solutions for the manufacturing industry? If you bring your legal knowledge and a passion for learning, we’ll help you develop and put your skills into great use.
The job
As a Business Area Segment General Counsel, you work closely together with the business and is determined to play its part in the Sandvik Shift Strategy. You are further responsible for empowering the business to take informed and balanced decisions across all legal disciplines, by providing qualitative legal advice and proactively assessing and mitigating key risks of our business in line with the Sandvik Way. This requires accuracy, a strong ethical compass and a curious business mind. Our work spans across many legal disciplines as we aim to merge stakeholder expectations with applicable laws and regulatory requirements. To be more specific, you’ll be actively engaged and manage all legal aspects of the business area segment’s M&A transactions and a variety of commercial agreements, negotiations, legal documents, correspondence and governance. You support our business with legal training, processes and tools. This role is also responsible for coordinating the Compliance work for the business area segment in close cooperation with the legal team within the SMS business area and the Sandvik Group Legal team. Looking ahead there are many more interesting tasks and projects for you as we develop and grow our business in other vital areas such as the digital space.
Joining us, means working with competent and supportive colleagues around the globe, an interesting multinational network and a feedback-friendly, flexible and collaborative team aiming to add true value to the business. With a lot of freedom to shape your work, you develop your own career path.
You report to our Business Area segment CFO, have a dotted line to Sandvik Group’s Executive Vice President and General Counsel, and you’ll be part of the Sandvik Group’s Legal Management Team. This role is preferably located at our Stockholm office “Gasverket”. Some global travel will also be included in your job from time to time.
Your character
You hold a master’s degree in law (LL M or equivalent) and have at least five years’ work experience from a reputable business law firm or within a corporate in-house legal organization. You’ve got both the confidence and ability to act independently and are very interested in deepening your knowledge of our market and the legal landscape that we’re facing. Experience within M&As and other cross border transactions, commercial agreements and litigations, general corporate law, along with digitalization are true benefits. Any previous contact with legal matters connected to the digital industrial - is another merit. You need excellent communication skills in English, while knowledge of Swedish is a plus.
As a person, you easily adapt to different situations and have a genuine service attitude. You enjoy a setting where new perspectives and innovation are appreciated, and you take initiatives and search for improvements. With a practical, structured and detailed mindset, you’re able to prioritize and multitask and you have what it takes to move forward and get things done. To gain trust is key in your job, and you build strong relations and offer legal advice based on sound judgment and thorough business understanding.
Our culture 
At Sandvik, we’re technology driven, innovative, entrepreneurial and inclusive! Success is a team effort, and we believe that diversity inspires, so we invest in supporting each other, learning together and celebrating our differences.
Application
We look forward to your application and ask you to please make sure that we have it no later than August 16, 2021. Our recruitment process is open and fair - we welcome all applicants and evaluate every unique application in line with the specified requirements profile, to find the best match for the position. Read more about Sandvik Group and apply at home.sandvik/career, (Job ID: R0030497).
Hiring manager
Lia Sandström, CFO Sandvik Manufacturing Solutions
Contact information
For more information about this position, please contact:
James Crilley, Executive Talent Acquisition Manager, +46 (0)70 616 76 23


Union contacts – Sweden
Thomas Lilja, Unionen, +46 (0)26 266 659
Kerstin Norlén, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)70 616 42 83
Peter Olsson-Andrée, Ledarna, +46 (0)26 261 984


To learn about our recruitment process, please contact HR Services, +46 (0)26 261 444.
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