Head of Corporate Business Development & Acquisitions
Finance, Banking & Legal · Banking & Investments · Corporate Finance · Risk Management
In short
Sandvik Coromant seeks a Head of Corporate Business Development & Acquisitions to lead growth strategy, partnerships, and acquisitions across Europe. This role involves identifying, assessing, and integrating opportunities to create tangible business impact, requiring strong commercial judgment and people leadership.
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 opportunities entering formal execution have a clear rationale, value thesis, business ownership, and sufficient validation.
- Own and continuously develop 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Desired Qualifications
- Combine strategic thinking with strong commercial judgment.
- Comfortable moving between enterprise-level direction and practical execution.
- Translate complex information into clear choices, priorities, and actions.
- Balance competing priorities without losing sight of the broader growth agenda.
- 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.
Benefits
- Fair and rewarding benefits
- Many different career opportunities in an inspiring global environment
#business development#acquisitions#growth strategy#corporate strategy#mergers and acquisitions#deal origination#value realization#portfolio management#stakeholder management
Company
Sandvik
Job Posted
19 hours ago
Expires
in 3 weeks
Employment Type
Full Time
WorkMode
Hybrid
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
Stockholm, Sweden
Düsseldorf, Germany
Orléans, France
Sandviken, Sweden
Applicants
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