Product Specialist

Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology is a leading supplier of equipment, tools, services, support and technical solutions for the mining and construction industry, and our operations and organizations are spread around the globe. With customer focus as a core value, we strive to always be the natural choice for our customers and, by offering solutions based on our customers’ needs, we find the road to success.

At Wear Protection and Screening Media (WP&SM), part of Life Cycle Services within Product Area Crushing and Screening, we provide best suitable solutions in terms of wear parts and protection, according to customers’ needs. By identifying bottlenecks in production and by developing our wear parts services, we always strive to further improve our customers’ profitability and cost-efficiency. We are now looking for our next Product Specialist with responsibility for the area Wear Protection. This is a versatile and exciting job if you wish to join a strong and dedicated team, with great possibilities for self-development.

This position is placed in Svedala and traveling is a natural part of the job.

Your mission – Ensuring a solid customer understanding to ensure a proactive and profitable offering As Product Specialist for Wear Protection, you provide technical and application expertise during sales and development processes to maximize the benefits derived from our products and services. You have a great communicative responsibility, as you continuously stay up-to-date and collect our customers’ needs and requirements. And as you communicate these to our Department of Development and our Supply Chain Organization, you ensure both high quality and high customer satisfaction. With comprehensive knowledge of our own offering and the market around us, you maintain and support the development process of new products and services.

In this position, you work closely with our Product Champions & LCM to transfer product knowledge to the front-line organization.

Your character – A technical teamplayer with a motivational approach We are looking for someone with a degree in a technical area, and at least 5 years’ experience from working with technical support or products development. A background of working with wear protection is considered advantageous, as is knowledge of the mining and construction industry. Since we operate in a global setting, you communicate fluently in English, both verbally and in writing. Additional skills in Swedish are beneficial.

Your character fascinates us, especially your strong commitment and motivational approach. With your solid technical foundation, combined with your great interest for sales, we consider you the ideal candidate for this position. Your commitment for this industry reflects in your dedicated work, and you are genuinely interested in pursuing it further as well as contributing to developing the business itself. This, together with your communicative skills, allows you to build strong, long lasting relationships.

At Sandvik, we strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspective and background will lead to a better environment for our employees, our business and, thereby, our customers.

Application Send your application no later than August 17, 2018. Read more about Sandvik and apply at www.sandvik.se/career, Job ID: R0000957.

Contact information For further information about this position, please contact: Johan Renmarker, recruiting manager, +46 (0)70 252 67 37

Union contacts – Sweden Mats Tindberg, Unionen, +46 (0)40 409 231 Cecilia Theander, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)40 409 231 Kent Hellström, Ledarna, +46 (0)40 409 181

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact HR Services, +46 (0)26 261 444.

Recruitment Specialist Karin Wallón

Prior to this recruitment, we have already decided on what advertising channels and marketing campaigns we wish to utilize. In light of this, we respectfully decline any contact with marketing or recruitment agencies regarding additional channels or campaigns.

Sandvik is a high-tech and global engineering group offering products and services that enhance customer productivity, profitability and safety. We hold world-leading positions in selected areas – tools and tooling systems for metal cutting; equipment and tools, service and technical solutions for the mining and construction industries; products in advanced stainless steels and special alloys as well as products for industrial heating. In 2017, the Group had approximately 43,000 employees and sales of 91 billion SEK in more than 150 countries within continuing operations.