Employee engagement and DE&I manager

Sandvik Materials Technology in Sandviken is looking for a:

Employee engagement and DE&I manager
Join our journey towards becoming a stand-alone company!


Sandvik’s business area Sandvik Materials Technology will be separately listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm Exchange on August 31, 2022 under the name Alleima. With a clear direction for our journey ahead, utilizing our position as technology leader, progressive customer partner and sustainability driver, we aim to become an even stronger and independent company within our industry.

To ensure that we succeed with the listing and the ambitious growth plans, we need engaged employees who feel a belonging to the company. We are now looking for an Employee engagement and DE&I manager to SMT. Your role will play an important part in delivering on the people strategy supporting the business strategy. You will work in a team with a high engagement and a positive atmosphere.

Are you ready to take on this challenge together with us? We offer an inspiring work environment with development opportunities for the right professional and are looking forward to your application.


Job Summary

In this role you drive, lead and coordinate two important parts of the PeopleStrategy – employee engagement and diversity, equality and inclusion. By collaborating, building cross-functional relations, and switching between a holistic view and hands-on approach you make it happen together with colleagues within and outside of HR.

Keeping up with market trends and best practices in your area is important. You share your knowledge and insights with stakeholders at all levels – while continuously driving improvements and responding to changing business needs. You collaborate with other functions within HR to create a unified working method within the entire HR at SMT.

This role reports to, and is in close collaboration with, Vice President & Head of Employee Experience. You will be based in Sandviken or other SMT location in Sweden.


Your Profile
We are looking for an HR professional with an extensive and proven track record from employee engagement and diversity, equality & Inclusion, who has been working strategically and operationally in a global environment for several years. It´s also an advantage if you have previous experience within employer branding or talent acquisition, as these are closely related to employee engagement. You are a project manager, used to navigating in a decentralized organization with cross-functional collaborations and in close contact with managers and HR. You are also comfortable in presenting your case and we see that you are interested in new digital solutions.


Your way of working is structured, pragmatic and innovative, and you capture opportunities without losing track of our direction. With a strategic view, you support business requirements and act on both urgent, short-term and long-term objectives. You collaborate and make people around you grow and you empower people to find efficient solutions, look at new perspectives and share best practices. We see it as a merit that you worked in a production-heavy business before.

Since more than half of our employees are based in Sweden but we act in a global setting, you need to be fluent in both Swedish and English, verbally and in writing.


Work with us
At Sandvik Materials Technology we are convinced that diversity leads to a better environment for our employees, our company and our customers. We offer you great development opportunities in a global industrial group with favorable employment conditions that include occupational pension, health care, group insurance, strengthened parental benefit, wellness allowance and skills development. Welcome to us!


Would you like to know more about Sandvik Materials Technology?
Visit our website or YouTube channel to learn more about our exciting journey and business.


Contact information
For mor information about the position contact:
Ulrika Dunker, Recruiting Manager, +46 (0) 79-060 10 13

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact:
Agnes Jansson, Recruitment Specialist, +46 (0) 76-495 02 40

Union contacts:
Maria Sundqvist, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0) 70-651 73 81
Kjell-Åke Klockervold, Ledarna, +46 (0) 70-314 24 43
Mikael Larsson, Unionen, +46 (0) 70-307 30 48



You are welcome with your application no later than 2022-06-12. Read more about SMT and apply through home.sandvik/career, job-id: R0034140.

Prior to this recruitment, we have already decided on which advertising channels and marketing campaigns we wish to utilize. In light of this, we respectfully decline any additional contact with marketing or recruitment agencies.

Sandvik Materials Technology is a business area within the Sandvik Group and a world-leading manufacturer of high value-added products in advanced stainless steels and special alloys as well as products for industrial heating. The cutting-edge expertise is based on an integrated production platform and industry-leading metallurgy and R&D​​. In 2021, sales were approximately 13.4 billion SEK with about 5,500 employees.