Shared platforms create the greatest value when they combine strong standards with a clear understanding of the business. As Head of Common Solutions, you own the common business application platforms that support several divisions across Business Area Rock Processing. By bringing business priorities together in one coherent roadmap, you enable commercial growth, operational efficiency, and compliance across the business area.
About the job
You own the strategy, delivery, operation, and continued development of our common business application platforms, primarily ERP and CRM. Working across autonomous divisions, you translate different business requirements into shared priorities while balancing standardization with genuine local needs. You report to the VP IT and CIO of Rock Processing and are a member of the IT management team.
Job responsibilities
Own and develop the multi-year ERP and CRM strategy, roadmap and investment plan across the business area.
Establish a structured process for evaluating and prioritizing business requirements, with clear outcomes and ownership of expected benefits.
Lead the Common Solutions organization and build a product-oriented operating model with clear accountability, competence development, and succession planning.
Ensure successful delivery of platform programs and releases, including process design, data migration, training, change management and business readiness.
Take accountability for platform performance, lifecycle management, service levels, total cost of ownership and transparent cost allocation.
Strengthen data quality, compliance and risk management while providing a reliable foundation for analytics, automation, digital solutions, and AI.
Location and flexibility
This position is flexible within Sweden, and regular international travel is expected.
Your profile
You’re an experienced IT leader with a strong understanding of industrial business processes and a proven ability to lead shared platforms across international, multi-business organizations. Your background combines strategic platform ownership, complex delivery and people leadership in environments where progress depends on collaboration and influence.
Your background includes:
Extensive experience leading ERP and CRM platforms, including a full end-to-end implementation or major upgrade.
A strong track record of delivering common solutions across autonomous business units with their own profit and loss responsibility.
Experience owning significant platform budgets, cost allocation models and vendor portfolios.
Leadership experience with distributed, multicultural teams of leaders and specialists.
A university degree in engineering, business, information systems or an equivalent field, together with professional fluency in English.
Knowledge of Infor M3 CloudSuite, Salesforce, product-oriented IT operating models, integration and data architecture is advantageous. Experience from heavy industry, as well as platform harmonization following acquisitions, is also beneficial.
To succeed, you listen closely to the divisions and build solutions around their strategies and business models. You combine sound judgment with the confidence to protect a common core, influence stakeholders without formal authority, and turn strategic priorities into funded, well-structured delivery. Curious about what’s next, you bring developments in digitalization, automation, and AI into the platform agenda while building long-term capability within your team.
The team
You lead an indicative team of five to ten platform or product owners and solution architects for ERP and CRM, supported by program and delivery resources. Close collaboration with divisional Digital and IT business partners, business process owners, Digital Transformation and AI, IT Sourcing, the BA IT PMO and Group IT is central to the work.
Our culture
At Sandvik, we’re tech driven, innovative and entrepreneurial. We believe that success is a team effort so…