Product Owner for Compute Operations

At Sandvik, we talk about setting the industry standard – and we really mean it. Group IT is right now undergoing an organizational change, and we’re looking for Product Owners and IT Managers to join our Core IT Services team. As Product Owner for Compute Operations, you play an essential part in delivering reliable, stable, and cost-efficient operations across multiple platforms. Does this sound interesting? Come join our team!
Our team’s mission and what you’ll do
We’re committed to minimizing our carbon footprint and gradually phasing out Notes, Mainframe, and iSeries platforms while prioritizing the use of public and private cloud infrastructure. Our key objectives include optimizing performance, reducing downtime, enhancing security, and continuously refining our operations through collaboration with the Core products Modern Monitoring and Automation Platform.
Except being a Product Owner, you also act as Service owner with a main responsibility to ensure that the services are developed, delivered, and continuously improved according to the stakeholders' needs and expectations. You work in the technical areas such as X86/Wintel on-premises servers, Mainframe platform, iSeries platform and Notes Domino – ensuring that the service offerings are properly set up, described, and managed, and that they can be easily ordered and invoiced. There’s also an expectation that you drive initiatives to increase utilization of resources in our TechHub, successfully transitioning to new service provider contracts, and to focus on cost efficiency while maintaining flexibility to meet stakeholder expectations.
About the job
In this position, you work actively together with stakeholders – collecting and comprehending their needs and displaying proactive problem-solving abilities to meet them effectively. You work in a structured way and prioritize the team backlog based on business needs. To maintain reliable and efficient compute operations and ensure the success of our efforts, your leadership and guidance for the product team is crucial. You collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and service providers to ensure the successful execution of our mission.
The location for this job is Sandviken or Stockholm and we apply a hybrid work set-up where you can combine office work with work from home or any other location.
About you
We’re looking for someone with technical knowledge and interest in Compute Operations and Cloud infrastructure. You have relevant leadership experience in a technology-focused environment and financial insight containing budgeting, cost management and financial impact evaluation. Proficient understanding of agile methodologies, frameworks and practices is needed, as well as demonstrated people and change management skills – adhering to servant leadership principles. As we’re a global organization, excellent English skills, both written and verbal, is required.
Apart from considering your background, we also place great importance on your personality. You’re structured in your work, and you know how to prioritize. Essential for this role is excellent skills in stakeholder management, as well as effective people and team management skills. Furthermore, you have a strong ability to cultivate a positive work environment that enhances the team well-being, and you know what it takes to lead a team toward success.
Our culture
Our role is clear – through every action, every day, we make the shift and advance the world through engineering. We believe in an inclusive, equal and open-minded culture, and we nurture our diversities to form a solid foundation for achieving great results. Add fair and rewarding benefits, as well as many different career options. Are you intrigued? Visit our website, LinkedIn or Facebook page to get to know us further.
Application
Send your application no later than October 20, 2023. Read more about Sandvik Group and apply at home.sandvik/careers (Job ID: R0058845).
As we aim for a fair recruitment process, we utilize assessment tools to safeguard objectivity. When you apply for this job, you will therefore receive an invitation via email to a personality and logic ability test. Feedback comes immediately after the test has been completed and the selection process begins after the application deadline.
Contact information
For further information about this position, please contact:
Krister Fredriksson, recruiting manager, +46 (0)73 046 37 07  
Union contacts - Sweden
Anders Rönnqvist, Unionen, +46 (0)26 263 010        
Göran Norell, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)26 266 574     
Peter Olsson-Andrée, Ledarna, +46 (0)26 261 984 

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact HR Services at hrservices.nordic@sandvik.com.
Recruitment Specialist
Lotta Amnebjer Nordqvist
Sandvik is a global, high-tech engineering group providing solutions that enhance productivity, profitability and sustainability for the manufacturing, mining and infrastructure industries. We are at the forefront of digitalization and focus on optimizing our customers’ processes. Our world-leading offering includes equipment, tools, services and digital solutions for machining, mining, rock excavation and rock processing. In 2022 the Group had approximately 40,000 employees and revenues of about 112 billion SEK in about 150 countries within continuing operations.