Product Area Manager

Are you a results-driven leader with a passion for integration technologies, data management, and team success? To Sandvik Group IT, we’re now looking for an experienced and driven manager to lead our Product Area Engineering Platforms team to new heights.

Our team focuses on providing cloud platforms, cloud advisory, developer experience, end-to-end integration solutions that are based on event, data or API, and leverages the capabilities of iPass. Welcome to be a part of our dynamic organization!

Your mission

In this position, you’re responsible for driving the success of the Product Area – ensuring customer satisfaction and business outcomes. You collaborate with the Engineering amp; Operations Management team to set the mission, vision, and strategy, and therefore also communicate and maintain a clear vision, strategy, objectives, and roadmap. You manage a team of professionals and provide guidance, support, and mentorship to drive their professional growth and development. To ensure productive and efficient working relationships you collaborate with external vendors and partners.

Included in your mission is also to:

• Understand the needs and context of stakeholders and translate them into a portfolio of fit-for-purpose.
• Manage relationships with stakeholders and ensure that their needs are addressed, and their expectations are managed effectively.
• Drive financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and cost-control activities for the Product Area Integration.
• Monitor and optimize financial performance – ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Lead and coach Product Owners and other team members within the Product Area – fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.
• Set limitations and guidelines for self-organization within the Product Area and promote collaboration and effective teamwork.
• Possess knowledge of cloud and modern integration technology and stay up to date with the latest industry trends and advancements.
• Apply your knowledge to guide a large-scale cloud transformation and enhancing developer experience and cloud center of excellence capabilities as well as the development and implementation of integration solutions within the Product Area.

The location for this position is either at Gasverket in Stockholm or Sandbacka Park in Sandviken. Presence at both locations is needed, therefore some travelling between Stockholm and Sandviken occurs.

Your character

We’re looking for someone with a solid understanding and experience from large organizations of cloud transformation and developer experience. You have good knowledge of integration platforms, APIs, event-driven architectures, and data integration strategies. Furthermore, you have a university degree in a relevant field and a proven track record in people management – which promotes a collaborative and high-performing team environment. You also have effective stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships, and experience in financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, and cost control. As we’re a global organization, excellent English skills, both written and verbal, is required.

To be a good fit for this position, you have excellent leadership skills, strategic thinking and a business-oriented mindset. You’re analytical and good at solving problems. Add to that excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as the ability to influence and motivate others, and you have a great chance of succeeding even more in this role.

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.

Contact information

For further information about this position, please contact Anders Blom Hartung, recruiting manager,

We’ve already decided on which advertising channels and marketing campaigns we wish to use, and respectfully decline any additional contacts in that matter.

Union contacts – Sweden

• Anders Rönnqvist, Unionen,
• Göran Norell, Akademikerföreningen,
• Peter Olsson-Andrée, Ledarna,

Recruitment Specialist: Lotta Amnebjer Nordqvist

How to apply

Send your application no later than May 24th, 2024. Click apply and include your resume and cover letter in English. Please note that we don’t accept applications by e-mail. Job ID: R0067079.

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.

To learn more about our recruitment process, please visit our career site or contact HR Services at .