Head of Group Application Services

Job description
Join our journey towards becoming a stand-alone company! 
  
We are now looking for excellent people to develop our business and work towards fulfilling our ambitious goals. With a strong leadership strategy and a proactive workforce, we are ready to continue on our growth journey by advancing industries through materials technology. 

Are you ready to take on this challenge together with us? We are already now starting to onboard several competences in the process to prepare for a new organizational set-up. We offer an inspiring work environment with development opportunities for the right professional.



Responsibilities
Let’s talk about your mission
Group application services serve the company with group common applications in the area Finance, Treasury, HR and Legal. 

Right now, we create a new company as well as a global operating environment through significant transformation: by moving applications from Sandvik level to Sandvik Materials Technology separated company as well as harmonizing and standardizing processes both on the business and IT side. Working in a constantly changing environment calls for a team of open minded and business-driven people with good application understanding, and we are now looking for a Head of Group Application Services, a position with great possibilities to influence and energize the development of the function. The location for this position is Sandviken or Stockholm, Sweden. 

As Head of Group Application Services, you are accountable for managing all aspects of the service and service production, ensuring delivery to users and managing outsourcing environments. You collect demand from business, define the content of the service, and follow up service levels both internally and externally. By creating and maintaining the service improvement plan, you have full management responsibility for budget, delivery and quality. Establishing good cooperation with key stakeholders and business representatives and contributing to the overall development of Group Application function within Sandvik Materials Technology IT are also some of your accountabilities. You have responsibility for small teams with in total 18 internal and external consultants performing application service tasks, including the work environment areas of safety, security, health and rehabilitation. Some international travel is a natural part of this position. 



Qualifications
And what about you?
We are looking for someone with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, IT or other relevant field, and experience from application development and managing IT delivery to businesses. Previous experience from a managerial position, including managing suppliers, is necessary, while familiarity with our business and Sandvik’s group systems and processes is advantageous. Working in an international setting, your communication skills in English, as well as Swedish, must be excellent, in both writing and speaking.

We place great value on your personal qualities in this recruitment; and with strong customer relationship management skills, result orientation and knowledge of how to build effective, global teams you are well suited for this role. You are passionate about giving excellent service and capable of implementing changes in order to improve and develop our global operations; thus, the position also places major demands on your leadership skills. Being perceptive and understanding, you easily create a trusting environment for collaboration and for reaching the business goals; you inspire and motivate your team members, creating both team spirit and enthusiasm.

We are a company with an open-minded culture, actively working to create a workplace that is characterized by diversity and inclusion. 



Application
Contact us
Are you interested in learning more about this exciting job? Please contact:
Per Iredahl, CIO at Sandvik Materials Technology
Office phone +46 26 269587
Mobile +46 70 2132252

Fackliga kontakter
Union contacts
Maria Sundqvist, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0) 26 -26 39 93
Kjell-Åke Klockervold, Ledarna, +46 (0) 26-26 30 44
Mikael Larsson, Unionen, +46 (0) 26-26 31 66



About the company
Working with us
At Sandvik, we’re convinced that diversity leads to a better environment for our employees, our company and our customers. We offer you great opportunities to develop in a global industrial group with favorable terms of employment which include, among other things, occupational pension, wellness, group insurance, increased parental benefit, educational programs and skills development. We’re looking forward to meeting you!

About Us
Sandvik’s business area Sandvik Materials Technology has initiated an exciting journey to explore the possibility of a separate listing on the Nasdaq Stockholm Exchange – earliest in year 2022, provided that the circumstances are deemed right at the time. 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. 

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 2019, sales were approximately 15 billion SEK with about 6,000 employees.