IT Manager Scandinavia at Ruukki, Gothenburg

We make steel-based products for walls and roofs, for both commercial buildings and private homes. We’re a supplier of high-quality products, systems and solutions, developed sustainably and to live up to the highest demands on durability in harsh conditions.

We employ around 1400 people and have 10 specialized manufacturing sites. Our strong presence in 10 European countries enables us to serve customers locally with our main brands Ruukki and Plannja. Our comparable net sales in 2021 were around EUR 590 million. We are of Nordic origin, part of SSAB, sharing values, and long experience in steel and construction industry.

SSAB is a Nordic and US-based steel company with employees in over 50 countries. SSAB is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and has a secondary listing on Nasdaq Helsinki. www.ssab.com

Description of the role

The main focus for the IT Manager is to manage and support the local requirements and IT ecosystems in cooperation with defined customers and partners. The role is based in Gothenburg (or southern Sweden) and act as a Team Lead for four local colleagues. Furthermore, the role involves contractual responsibility for external application consultants related to local services. You act as a link to service providers and Ruukki development programs and facilitate change requests raised from the organization.

Key responsibilities and tasks

• Responsible of IT Services in Scandinavia

• • Local Services in main sites: Järnforsen, Landsbro, Anderslöv, Göteborg and Oslo
• • Local Services in sales offices
• • Global Services towards Corporate IT

• Team lead for a local IT team
• Develop and maintain current IT ecosystems to ensure business continuation in a cost efficient way
• Capacity Management for external consultants based on business requirements
• Escalation point from Scandinavian business management
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Qualifications and personality

• University degree
• Appropriate network / Vendor management skills
• Knowledge in service delivery processes (ITIL)
• Project management and implementation methods
• Excellent organizer with leadership and administrative skills
• Ability to act efficiently and autonomously in a matrix organization
• A coaching leadership and ability to communicate a vision and motivate and develop the team
• Good knowledge of written and spoken English and Swedish

The right candidate has a proven knowledge about IT infrastructure and business application services from a large corporation and has a genuine interest for developing business and a high level of performance management. In order to succeed you have the capacity to analyze complex business situations with a strategic mindset combined with excellent negotiation and communication skills and make high quality decisions on what strategies to use in an appropriate time frame.

Does this sound like the perfect fit for you? If so, we are excited to hear from you! We welcome your application in English with CV and cover letter at www.maquire.se no later than the 25th of March. If you have any questions, please contact Elisabeth Lidstedt, +46 735 19 40 51.