Product management

Head of Product Line – Large Mining and Tunneling, Underground Drilling

Some words about the Division

The Underground Drilling Division within Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is a market leader in providing industry-leading drilling solutions for our customers in the underground mining and tunneling industries. We work in close co-operation with the sales areas within the Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions Business Area, to provide the best possible service to our customers. We have strong customer focus and safety as core values. Our operations are located in Tampere (Finland), Lyon (France), Winnipeg (Canada), Jiading (China), and Pune (India).

We are now looking for a new Head of Product Line to lead our journey towards more intelligent drilling automation, digitalized product offering, safer and more sustainable future via electrification. This is an international position with unique possibility to set your fingerprint to the technological industry standards and best practices in underground mining and construction. The position is full-time, permanent and located in Tampere (Myllypuro).

Your mission

You will be part of the Underground Drilling R&D and product line management team and responsible for ensuring the competitive edge of our large Mining and Tunneling product offering in both long- and short term- perspectives. You will lead a team of dedicated and highly professional product managers through coaching and embracing the best practices among various areas within product management. These are such as successful commercialization of new ground- breaking technologies to the industry, building up spectacular marketing case studies of our products, product mix harmonization to support our supply chain optimizations and acting as a true spokesperson of the underground drilling towards both internal and external stakeholders, such as sales areas and our customers.

Your main responsibilities

Acting as inspirational and supportive team leader for a group of Product Managers
Product vision and strategy ownership including product line roadmaps
Customer and industry trends follow up, anticipation and influence
Technology trends monitoring and related steering towards engineering and technology development organizations
Product portfolio strategic planning and continuous management to meet business objectives and keep products competitive in the markets
Competitor’s offering monitoring and benchmark
Product profitability follow up and control as per division growth and profitability targets
Provide sales support within strategic and/or large size sales deals
Product line spokesperson in on various interest group meetings, conferences and trade events.

Your background and what we find important
Passion to lead and to take a proactive approach in “getting things done” while maintaining superior team collaboration with internal and external stakeholders will ensure your success within this role. You enjoy working in an international business environment and have solid communication and presentation skills to establish instant credibility and a good sense of trust.

The specific requirements in this position

University degree in business, mining, engineering or another relevant field
At least 5+ years of experience in mining, civil construction and/or other heavy industry space
Several years of experience in various stakeholder management roles and responsibilities
Product management, business development, or sales experience from the area of equipment and/or digital products
Strong communication, presentation, customer service, business, and negotiation skills
Ability to build strong working and cross collaborative relationships across all levels of the organization
Willingness to travel globally
Fluent English language skills

What’s in it for you?

We offer you versatile and interesting tasks in international business environment, as well as the opportunity to develop your own professional skills and career. In addition, we offer good employee benefits and inclusive corporate culture focused on sustainable development, with values such as Innovation, Fair Play, Customer Focus and Passion to Win. We have hybrid office/home working environment. At Sandvik we believe that the diversity of experiences, perspectives and backgrounds will contribute to successes for our employees, our company and therefore also our customers.

Contact information

For further information about this position, please contact the hiring manager: Marko Roivas, Vice President R&D and Product Management, Underground drilling, tel. +358 40 509 5225, on Tue 4th March at 15-16 or on Mon 10th March at 9-10. All times are Finnish time (EET).

To learn more about our recruitment process, please visit our career site or contact HR Services Finland, tel. +358 800 1 44444 (weekdays at 9-11 and 13-15 EET).

Want to join our journey in setting new industry standards?

Submit your application by Sunday 16th March, 2025.

Click apply and include your cover letter with your salary request and CV in English. Please note that we don’t accept applications by email.

Job ID: R0076291

About the company

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is a business area within the Sandvik Group and a global leading supplier of equipment and tools, parts, service, digital solutions and sustainability-driving technologies for the mining and construction industries. Application areas include rock drilling, rock cutting, loading, and hauling, tunneling and quarrying. In 2023, sales were approximately 66 billion SEK with about 17,000 employees.

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