Head of Corporate Business Development & Acquisitions

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. 

Balancing two equally important mandates, you lead corporate business development while owning the capabilities for acquisition origination, integration and value realization. This is an opportunity to combine strategic direction with hands-on leadership across the full growth and acquisition lifecycle. 

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 joakim.nilsson@sandvik.com 

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Union contacts (Sweden): 

• Thomas Lilja, Unionen, +46 (0)70-261 04 82 

• Tord Engström, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)76 106 62 87 

• Peter Olsson-Andrée, Ledarna, +46 (0)70-222 48 55 

Recruitment Specialist: Lisbeth Häggström 

How to apply 

We have an ongoing selection process, please send your application as soon as possible, and no later than October 18, 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: R0097036. 

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 hrservices.sweden@sandvik.com 

Sandvik Coromant is part of the global industrial engineering group Sandvik and is at the forefront of developing manufacturing tools and machining solutions, with knowledge that drives the industry standards and innovations demanded by the metalworking industry now and in the next industrial era. Collaborations with educational institutions, extensive investment in research and development and strong customer partnership ensure the development of machining technologies that change, lead and drive the future of manufacturing. Sandvik Coromant owns over 1700 patents worldwide, employs around 8000 staff and is represented in more than 150 countries.