Head of Corporate Business Development & Acquisitions

Sandvik; Sandvikens kommun; Hybrid; SEK 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandvik is seeking a seasoned leader to shape the corporate business development and acquisitions strategy. You will steer portfolio quality, business case development and cross-functional orchestration, driving value realization from early assessment to final investment decisions.

You will lead a team across origination, integration and governance, partnering with senior stakeholders to ensure disciplined execution and sustained growth.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in strategic business development and acquisitions.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Strong capability in portfolio management and value realization.

Responsibilities

• Identify and develop strategic growth opportunities and new business models.
• Own the opportunity portfolio, Build/Buy/Partner assessments and recommended paths.
• Set acquisition themes and translate into search fields and investment hypotheses.
• Lead origination, integration and value realization with governance and stakeholders.
• Coordinate senior stakeholders across the organization to drive disciplined execution.

Job description

• Tord Engström, Akademikerföreningen, [phone]

Shape an integrated growth agenda that turns strategy into tangible business impact. As Head of Corporate Business Development & Acquisitions, you connect organic development, partnerships and acquisitions, ensuring that opportunities are identified, prioritized and developed into clear strategic choices and executable initiatives.

About The Job

You set the direction for Sandvik Coromant’s corporate business development and acquisitions agenda. With accountability for portfolio quality, strategic business cases, cross-functional orchestration and people leadership, you enable informed decisions and maintain continuity from early opportunity assessment through integration and value realization. Formal transaction execution and final investment decisions sit with the Deal Lead and relevant governance bodies.

Job responsibilities

• Lead the identification, assessment and development of strategic growth opportunities, adjacent businesses, future growth arenas and new business models.
• Own the opportunity portfolio and Build, Buy or Partner assessments, providing clear recommendations on the most appropriate path to realization.
• Set the strategic direction for acquisition themes and guide their translation into actionable search fields, target profiles and investment hypotheses.
• Strengthen the origination pipeline and ensure that opportunities entering formal execution have a clear rationale, value thesis, business ownership and sufficient validation.
• Own and continuously develop the integration and value realization capabilities, including governance, planning, performance follow-up and lessons learned.
• Lead professionals working with origination, integration and value realization, while coordinating senior stakeholders and the wider business development community.

Location & flexibility

This position is flexible within Europe, with a strong preference for Sweden or another location close to one of our key office sites.

Your profile

You combine strategic thinking with strong commercial judgment and extensive experience in business development, acquisitions and people leadership. Comfortable moving between enterprise-level direction and practical execution, you translate complex information into clear choices, priorities and actions.

Your background includes

• Extensive experience leading strategic business development and acquisition-related work.
• Strong capability in opportunity assessment, portfolio management and Build, Buy or Partner decisions.
• Experience shaping acquisition themes, business cases, integration approaches and value realization plans.
• Proven people leadership, including coaching, capability development, resource allocation and succession planning.
• The ability to engage senior stakeholders and coordinate work across organizational and functional boundaries.

Strategic and decisive, you balance competing priorities without losing sight of the broader growth agenda. You build alignment through collaboration, challenge constructively and communicate complex matters with clarity. A structured approach, sound judgment and the ability to connect strategy with execution are central to your success.

Our culture

Innovation is in our DNA and we’re proud to shape the future of manufacturing in close collaboration with our customers and partners. 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 opportunities in an inspiring global environment. Meet some of your future colleagues at our career page or visit our website, LinkedIn or Facebook page to get to know us further.

Contact information

Are you curious to know more about this position? Please contact Joakim Nilsson, Vice President Strategy and Acquisitions, at [e-mail]

Union contacts (Sweden):

• Thomas Lilja, Unionen, [phone]
• Tord Engström, Akademikerföreningen, [phone]
• Peter Olsson-Andrée, Ledarna, [phone]

Recruitment Specialist: Lisbeth Häggström