Director of Strategy and Market Intelligence

Right now, Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology is looking for an experienced and business savvy professional to join us as Director of Strategy and Market Intelligence. Are you eager to learn and develop together with a strong market leader? Then this is a great opportunity for you!
We have an exciting business, delivering cutting edge products and solutions to our mining and construction customers across the globe. In 2019, Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology had around 14 000 employees within nine divisions, and a total revenue of 45 billion SEK. At the department of Strategy and Business Development, we provide quality support to all our divisions in regard to strategy, M&A and sales development, and together we prioritize and set a strong future direction. Once joining us, we’re proud to offer you a diverse workplace where innovation, collaboration and flexibility really matters!
Your mission
In this position, you work in close collaboration with our nine divisions and fourteen sales areas to create true value and enhance the business further - and you do this by challenging and supporting in finding new paths to industry leadership. You and your team have two main objectives. Firstly, you facilitate strategy development through servicing our businesses in their planning. Together with the team and internal stakeholders from around the world you support the annual strategy development cycle as well as manage ad-hoc projects.
Secondly you lead the business area market intelligence gathering. Here you provide the business with relevant market information, leverage our data subscription licenses, analyze our competitors and gather industry news and other important insights. To keep a close eye on trends and current events in different markets and help turn information into actionable insights.
This position is based at our Sandvik headquarters - World Trade Center - in Stockholm, and extensive travel is included in your job.
Your character
We’re looking for someone with a university degree within Industrial Engineering and Management, Finance or Business Administration. In addition to your education, you have 7-10 years’ work experience from similar roles within larger organizations such as management consulting or another global company. This includes a solid track record of driving business growth and change management, as well as proven leadership capabilities. Knowledge of business systems such as Power BI and Qlikview is beneficial and working in a global setting calls for excellent English skills, while knowledge of Swedish is a plus.
Your strategic mindset combined with your analytical features enables you to easy spot the details we need to move forward. You have good stakeholder management and communication skills and know how to interact with large group of stakeholders of different backgrounds and opinions. To challenge and push your colleagues forward comes naturally to you, and you enjoy seeing them grow and develop. You’re eager to learn; something that really comes in handy as you sometimes, and in short notice, have to be present in a completely new geographical region and quickly need to catch up on their current situation. This combined with your big interest in our business are some of the ingredients to success in this role!
Our culture
At Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology, we believe in finding that perfect mix between work, family life and interests, and we happily support our employees in balancing this. For us, it’s also clear that our diversities form an amazing foundation for achieving great results.
Application
We have an ongoing selection process in this recruitment and ask you to send your application as soon as possible and no later than November 1, 2020. Read more about Sandvik Group and apply at home.sandvik/career (Job ID: R0021171).
Contact information
For further information about this position, please contact:
Jakob Rutqvist, recruiting manager, +46 (0)70 616 49 65
Union contacts - Sweden
Stefan Norell, Unionen, +46 (0)70 616 16 83
Fredrik Andersson, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)26 262 718
Peter Olsson-Andrée, Ledarna, +46 (0)26 261 984
For more information about the recruitment process, please contact HR Services, +46 (0)26 261 444.
Recruitment Specialist
Christian Richtnér
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Sandvik is a high-tech and global engineering group offering products and services that enhance customer productivity, profitability and sustainability. We hold world-leading positions in selected areas – tools and tooling systems for metal cutting; equipment and tools, service and technical solutions for the mining industry and rock excavation within the construction industry; products in advanced stainless steels and special alloys as well as products for industrial heating. In 2019, the Group had approximately 40,000 employees and revenues of about 100 billion SEK in more than 160 countries within continuing operations.