Product management

Vice President, Product Line Down-the-Hole Drilling – Rock Tools

At Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions and Division Rock Tools, we’re currently looking for a Vice President of our Down the Hole Drilling product line – someone with a strong entrepreneurial drive and the ability to generate growth.

This opening presents a great chance for you to shape our business from end to end and we invite you to join us and connect with passionate, innovative and brilliant minds from across the globe.

Some words about us

Our solutions are based on years of research, experience and customer feedback, and within Down the Hole Drilling, we have a wide range of high performing drilling tools that enhance productivity and sustainability while lowering operation costs and emissions. By a unique combination of strength, hardness and resilience, our products can tackle even the most demanding applications! Read more at rocktechnology.sandvik.

Your mission
In this position, you’re an important member of the Rock Tools management team, and you’re responsible for accelerating growth by aggressively increasing our market share and staying two steps ahead of our competition. With your business acumen, entrepreneurial mindset and technical knowledge, you and your team build the foundation for a long-term sustainable business.

Your main focus ahead lies in:

• Further strengthening and positioning our product portfolio.
• Driving growth, both within Down-the-Hole Drilling and our total Surface Mining offering.
• Driving quality and cost efficiency in collaboration with our production.
• Further build and strengthen the Down the Hole product management team and related capabilities in our Sales Areas.

You drive improvements and make things happen – taking the lead in enhancing our existing offering, staying updated with the market and generating new and strategic business opportunities. Having a strong set of leadership skills, you manage and motivate your team of product managers and application specialists to always perform at their best. In addition, you collaborate closely with our 14 sales areas across the globe – as well as other key stakeholders both within and outside of our global Rock Tools organization (including R&D, Production, Global Account Managers).

You report to the President of Rock Tools and are located at our Rock Tools head office in Sandviken. Global travel is included as a natural part of your job.

Your profile
We’re looking for someone with a master’s in business administration or engineering, combined with experience from an extensive working career within sales, product management or R&D – preferably within the mining or construction industries. You have solid leadership skills and a background from managing people and driving change in a diverse and global organization. Your business-minded approach and commercial outlook is of most value to us, and this also enables you to be a true role model for our organization and to successfully execute our strategies. This position calls for fluency in English.

You’re a true enabler – someone who identifies opportunities, executes plans and builds a profitable culture. You have excellent communication skills and with your drive and energy, you inspire high performance and create outstanding collaborations across our organization. You also encourage people around you through empowering, influential and credible leadership.

Our culture

At Sandvik, we’re tech driven, innovative and entrepreneurial. We believe that success is a team effort so we value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where people can be themselves and reach their full potential. We invest in supporting each other, learning together and celebrating our differences. Visit our stories hub, LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us further.

Contact information

For further information about this position, please contact James Crilley, Executive Talent Acquisition Expert, james.crilley@sandvik.com.

We have already decided on what advertising channels and marketing campaigns we wish to use, and respectfully decline any additional contacts.

Union contacts – Sweden

Cecilia Mickelsson, Unionen, +46 (0)70 616 90 89

Erik Kjerf, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)70 616 36 72

Linda Adamsson, Ledarna, +46 (0)70 616 03 10

Hiring Manager: Maria Hugosson, President of Rock Tools

How to apply

Please send us your application through our application system as soon as possible and no later than September 23, 2024. Job ID: R0070923. Please note that we don’t accept applications by e-mail.

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. To learn more about our recruitment process, please visit our career site or contact HR Services at hrservices.nordic@sandvik.com.

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is a business area within the Sandvik Group and a global leading supplier of equipment and tools, parts, service, digital solutions and sustainability-driving technologies for the mining and construction industries. Application areas include rock drilling, rock cutting, loading and hauling, tunneling and quarrying. In 2023, sales were approximately 66 billion SEK with about 17,000 employees.