At Sandvik Group IT and our Product Area Digital Workplace, we’re in the midst of a transformative shift toward greater agility and forward-thinking approaches and are now seeking several Product Owners & IT Managers to join us in driving innovation and shaping our digital future.

Are you technically focused with a user-centric mindset? Do you also have a passion for the opportunities that digitalization brings to manufacturing – both in production and the actual products? We’re now looking for a Product Owner for Collaboration Tools. Welcome to us and this exciting role! We look forward to meeting you!

What you’ll do

As a Product Owner you’re accountable for the financial results and put focus on engineering and innovation – ensuring an efficient and effective way of working throughout the product lifecycle and facilitate an effective collaboration with stakeholders. In collaboration with your Product Team, you ensure the product is fit for its purpose and continuously improved to meet stakeholder expectations in terms of value. You also manage and actively empower personnel within the team and regularly assess the team’s prerequisites and ensure they have the necessary support and resources. Moreover, you foster skills development within the team, encouraging individual growth and promoting a culture of continuous learning.

As Product Owner for Collaboration Tools, you’re responsible for:

• Driving the strategy, development, operational excellence, and adoption Microsoft Office 365 collaboration tools (MS Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange Online etc.) across our company.
• The overall M365 platform management, including License management, security, and compliance policy, roles, and access management.
• Understanding the technology, its integrations, dependencies, and relations between different internal and external products.
• Being in the forefront of the technology and continuously assessing and ensuring new relevant M365 products and features are enabled and communicated across the company.
• Collaborating closely with the product team, stakeholders, suppliers, and end-users to understand business requirements and translate them into effective solutions.
• Establishing and effectively communicating the vision, strategy, and objectives for your Product Area.
• Guaranteeing that the product remains valuable to our customers and users, by adhering to the principles of value, viability, feasibility, and usability.

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. Since your management team and some of your team members are based in Sandviken, you need to be able to travel to Sandviken regularly if you’re located in Stockholm.

What you know and need – this is important:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT

• Technical expertise
• Experience in leadership

• Experience within the Microsoft Office 365 products
• Effective stakeholder and financial management skills
• Effective stakeholder and financial management skills
• Knowledge of agile work, fundamentals, frameworks, methods, and practices
• Excellent English skills, while knowledge in Swedish is an advantage.

To be a good fit for this position, you need a strategic thinking and a user centric mindset. Being technically focused and a motivated problem solver, ready to pursue meaningful work really comes in handy and you always strive to make an impact. You have good communication and negotiation skills and the ability to provide guidance, coaching, and mentorship to team members. Beneficial for this position, is also a proficiency in product ownership practices and methodologies and if you hold a track record in people- and change management, it’s considered a plus.

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 1, 2023. Read more about Sandvik Group and apply at home.sandvik/career (Job ID: R0058888).

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:
Marcus Memis, recruiting manager, [email protected]

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 [email protected].

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.