Corporate Communications Business Partner within IT - Sandvik Group

At Sandvik, we offer you a world of opportunities and exciting career ways to explore. We're right in the middle of a major digital shift with the objective of becoming an industry leader within digital solutions and enabling operational excellence through digitalization. Great communication is key in this transformation and to support this, we’re now looking for an experienced Corporate Communications Business Partner with an interest and curiosity for tech and digitalization.
Your new team
The Sandvik Group Communications team is set up by highly skilled professionals and are responsible for developing both internal and external communication and strategies – ensuring delivery of our company strategy, employee engagement and an attractive brand and consistency across the Group’s channels. Our diverse business and global network enable you to explore your potential and thrive, while working together towards our company goals.
So, what’s the job all about?
IT has an instrumental and strategic role in our digitalization journey that presently is taking place on all levels of the organization. In this role you lead the communications work for IT, ensuring that there is a strategic communications plan catering for IT’s business priorities. You also support in hands-on execution, with a strong focus on creating excellent communication towards end-users. By using a large variety of communication channels, you create innovative, high-quality, and timely communication. Other areas of responsibility are communications planning, training, crisis communications and event management.
You work in close collaboration with our Sandvik Group CIO and the IT management team, as well as with highly skilled communications professionals. In your daily work you coordinate most of your tasks with the IT organization stakeholders and your fellow Corporate Communications Business Partner towards IT. You report to the Vice President and Head of Corporate Communications and Brand at Sandvik Group Communications.
Where’s the office?
You’re based at Sandvik Headquarters in Stockholm, and presence at our other IT offices in Sweden (Sandviken and Stockholm Gasverket) is frequently required. Some national and international travel may also occur.
Your character
We’re looking for an experienced communicator with a degree in Communication, Journalism or with the corresponding skills and training. You have extensive experience within a similar position and are used to cooperating with different kind of people, both by cultural background and by profession. Your high interest in new technology is a given – you master many collaboration tools and learn to use new systems swiftly and easily. At Sandvik, Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint and Teams are essential platforms for how we communicate and collaborate. Excellent communication skills in verbal and written English and Swedish are required.
We’re genuinely interested in your collaborative and easy-going mindset as well as your curious attitude for finding new and smarter ways to communicate. You have a strategic mindset, and at the same time, you’re an operational doer who stays focused on creating results in times of multiple parallel assignments and deadlines just around the corner. In addition, you have the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, and you easily adjust your approach to suit the audience.
Our culture
Sandvik is a high-tech and global engineering group, rapidly developing into new, digital offerings. We believe in pursuing work with passion, while also leaving room for family life and interests. For us it’s clear that diversity of experience, perspective and background leads to a successful business environment. Visit our stories hub, LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us further.
Application
We have ongoing selections and interviews for this recruitment. Please submit your application as soon as possible and no later than June 6, 2022. Read more about Sandvik Group and apply at home.sandvik/career (Job ID: R0041606).
Contact information
For more information about this position, please contact:
Magdalena Fahlén, Vice President and Head of Corporate Communications and Brand (until June 2), +46 (0)8 456 13 86 or Björn Roodzant, Vice President and Head of Corporate Communications and Brand (from June 3)
Union contacts – Sweden
Kristina Sundell, Unionen, +46 (0)70 211 64 00
Erik Knebel, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)173 846 10
Peter Olsson-Andrée, Ledarna, +46 (0)26 261 984    
To learn about our recruitment process, please contact HR Services, +46 (0)26 261 444.
Recruitment Specialist
Anton Karlsson