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Do you thrive in a role where you set direction, balance priorities, and turn complex connectivity demands into secure, scalable services that create business value? Here, you shape the future of enterprise connectivity by driving strategy, governance, and innovation across a global organization.

Why Sandvik?

At Sandvik IT, you’re part of a global and collaborative environment where technology plays a key role in enabling business success. You have the opportunity to influence strategic decisions, shape critical network services, and work with stakeholders across the organization. By joining Sandvik, you get to:

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a business-critical connectivity product.
• Collaborate with business leaders, architects, and service partners across a global landscape.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement within modern connectivity and security services.

About the job

You own the product direction, backlog, and governance for a broad portfolio of connectivity services within Network Services. You ensure that business needs are translated into priorities, guide the product’s evolution, and secure alignment between stakeholders, partners, and strategic objectives. Our current technical ecosystems include products from HPE/Aruba, Fortinet, Checkpoint, Zscaler to name a few.

Job responsibilities

• Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Larger Connectivity.
• Own and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business objectives and qualified demand.
• Govern partner-delivered services, including quality assurance, acceptance criteria, and delivery outcomes.
• Represent the product in governance forums and drive stakeholder alignment across business and IT.
• Building and managing an effective, high performing team of specialists for your product.
• Manage service scope, operational boundaries, and service catalogue governance.
• Drive continuous improvement, value realization, cost management, and innovation across connectivity services such as WAN, Secure Service Edge, carrier services, remote access, and firewall services.

Location and flexibility

This position is based in Stockholm or Sandviken, and we offer a hybrid work set-up.

Your profile

Success in this position comes from combining business understanding with strong product ownership and governance capabilities. You’re comfortable navigating complex environments where multiple stakeholders, priorities, and technology domains intersect. Equally important is your ability to connect strategic objectives with practical execution and measurable outcomes.

Your background includes

• Experience managing and qualifying business demand across multiple stakeholders or product areas.
• Experience working with teams as a leader, using agile methods.
• Experience facilitating governance forums, steering groups, councils, or similar decision-making bodies.
• Experience working at the interface between business and IT, translating needs into structured and actionable requests.
• Knowledge of product, service, or portfolio management within an enterprise IT environment.
• A relevant university degree or equivalent practical experience in IT, business, governance, or a related field.

Strong knowledge of connectivity-related technologies is valuable, particularly within WAN, Secure Service Edge (SSE), SASE, remote access, firewall, or carrier services. Experience with Agile product management approaches, portfolio prioritization, financial governance, and change management is also beneficial. Professional proficiency in English is required.

You bring a structured and collaborative approach, creating clarity in complex environments, and helping stakeholders move forward with confidence. Through clear communication, sound judgment, and a strong sense of ownership, you build trust across business and IT while ensuring decisions are well-governed and aligned with long-term objectives.

Our culture

At Sandvik, we’re tech driven, innovative and entrepreneurial. We believe that success is a team effort so we value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where people can be themselves and reach their full potential. So, we invest in supporting each other, learning together and celebrating our differences. Visit our stories hub, LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us further.

Contact information

For further information about this position, please contact Peter Lindfors, hiring manager, [email protected].

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Union contacts – Sweden

• Johanna Beijer, Unionen, +46 (0)70 616 18 27
• Fredrik Andersson, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)70 266 78 50
• Peter Olsson-Andrée, Ledarna, +46 (0)70 222 48 55

Recruitment Specialist: Therese Rutqvist

How to apply

Send your application no later than August 31, 2026. Click apply and include your resume and cover letter in English. Please note that we don’t accept applications by e-mail. Job ID: R0094523.

We aim for an open and fair recruitment process and use different tools to ensure an objective assessment. Later in the process, you may be invited to complete a personality and logic test.

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

Sandvik is a global, industrial technology 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 2025 the Group had approximately 42,000 employees and revenues of about SEK 121 billion in more than 150 countries.