Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Underground Drilling

Job Description:

Sandvik Mining is a global leader in equipment, tools, parts, services, and digital solutions for the mining and infrastructure industries. Its offering spans the entire value chain, including rock drilling, cutting, loading and hauling, tunnelling, and ground support. The business area plays a key role in advancing automation, electrification, and digitalization to improve safety, productivity, and sustainability for customers worldwide.

Underground Drilling Division brings value to our customers in providing industry-leading drilling solutions within underground mining and tunnelling. We operate in close collaboration with our sales areas and other Divisions within Sandvik Mining, ensuring strong customer value through aligned offerings and expertise. Customer focus and safety are at the core of everything we do.

Our operations are located in Tampere (Finland), Lyon (France), Winnipeg (Canada), Jinan (China), and Pune (India).

We are now looking for a Vice President, Sales and Marketing to lead our commercial agenda and further strengthen our position as a trusted partner to our customers.

This is a global role based in either Tampere (Finland) or Lyon (France), reporting to the President of the Underground Drilling Division. You will also be a key member of the Division Management Team.

Your mission
As Vice President, Sales & Marketing, you lead the commercial agenda for the Underground Drilling division, ensuring strong alignment between strategy, customer needs, and business performance.

You are accountable for driving profitable growth in line with our strategic ambitions, strengthening our market position, and ensuring consistent execution across all markets.

In this role, you lead and develop the Division's sales and marketing function, enabling and supporting our global network of sales areas and dealers. You translate strategy into clear commercial priorities, targets, and actionable plans, and drive initiatives that enhance overall sales and marketing performance.

Your key responsibilities
* Lead and execute the sales and marketing strategy to drive growth and profitability
* Strengthen customer relationships together with our 14 sales areas, ensuring consistent and high-value customer experience
* Drive commercial excellence, including pricing, value selling, demand forecasting, and sales capability and competence development
* Collaborate closely with other Sandvik Mining Divisions to ensure strong commercial alignment towards customers
* Identify and capture growth opportunities in areas such as automation, digitalization, and electrification
* Drive market intelligence activities, including analysis of market share, competitor performance, pricing, and customer insights
* Build and lead a high-performing sales and marketing organization, fostering accountability and continuous improvement
* Engage with key customers, partners, and stakeholders across the industry

Your background and what we value
You are a senior commercial leader with extensive experience in B2B sales, product management, or other commercial roles, preferably within heavy machinery or industrial environments. Experience in the mining industry is considered a strong advantage.

You have a proven track record of driving profitable growth through close customer engagement and collaboration, and you thrive in an international business environment. You bring strong communication and presentation skills and are an inspiring leader who develops people through coaching and mentoring. You lead by example and foster a culture of trust, accountability, and teamwork, while consistently demonstrating Sandvik's core values of Responsibility, Customer Focus, Winning Together, and Curiosity. You have excellent profiency in English. The role includes global travel as a natural part of engaging with customers and sales teams.

Why Sandvik?
We offer you versatile and interesting role surrounded by a dynamic and highly skilled group of professionals as well as opportunities for your career development working in global company with strong brands and products. Sandvik also provides opportunities for your professional development in various Sandvik training and development programs. In addition, we offer good employee benefits and inclusive corporate culture focused on sustainable development.

Contact information
For further information about this position, please contact the recruiting manager: Johannes Välivaara, President, Underground Drilling, tel. +358 40 758 2909, on Tuesday June 16th at 8-10 or Thursday June 18th at 14-16 (EEST).

For further information about the recruitment process, please contact: HR Services Finland, tel. +358 800 1 44444 (weekdays at 9-11 and 12-15 EEST).

We look forward to hearing from you!
Submit your application at home.sandvik/careers by Sunday June 28th, 2026.

Click apply and include your cover letter and CV in English. Please make sure to attach all files when uploading your CV. Kindly note that we don't accept applications by email.

Job ID: R0093141

About our company
Sandvik is a global, high-tech engineering group providing solutions that enhance productivity, profitability and sustainability for the manufacturing, mining and infrastructure industries. We are at the forefront of digitalization and focus on optimizing our customers' processes. Our world-leading offering includes equipment, tools, services and digital solutions for machining, mining, rock excavation and rock processing. In 2025, the group had approximately 42.000 employees, sales in more than 150 countries and revenues of about SEK 121 billion.

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About the locations
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