Sandvik Canada is seeking a

General Manager – ITH Business Unit

Location: Winnipeg

Sandvik is a global leader in underground mining equipment, tools, parts, service, and technical solutions for the mining industry. The Winnipeg ITH (In-the-Hole) Center of Excellence serves as the global hub for the design, manufacturing, and lifecycle support of Sandvik’s underground ITH drills and support units. Sandvik Canada is now seeking an accomplished senior leader to provide strategic, operational, commercial, and people leadership for this globally significant product line.

Position Summary

Reporting into Sandvik’s global business structure, the General Manager – ITH Business Unit will lead the Winnipeg Unit and approximately 50 professionals responsible for the development, manufacturing, and delivery of Sandvik’s In-the-Hole underground mining drilling units. This senior leadership role carries accountability for the full product value chain, including product strategy, engineering development, operational execution, customer engagement, commercial performance, and profitability.

The mandate is both strategic and operational: to shape the future direction of the ITH product line while ensuring disciplined execution, strong financial performance, technical excellence, customer confidence, and alignment with Sandvik’s values and leadership principles. The role requires regular engagement with the global sales network and may include direct interaction with key customers and stakeholders.

This opportunity is ideally suited to a commercially astute, technically credible, and operationally disciplined leader who has successfully led industrial businesses, product lines, or manufacturing operations in a global environment.

Scope of Leadership

Strategic, Commercial & Financial Leadership

• Set the strategic direction for the ITH business unit, ensuring alignment with Sandvik’s global business priorities, customer needs, and long-term growth agenda.
• Provide full business leadership for the unit, with accountability for sustainable growth, profitability, investment priorities, resource allocation, and overall financial performance.
• Identify and advance market opportunities in collaboration with sales, customers, and internal stakeholders, positioning the product line for long-term competitiveness.

Product, Engineering & Innovation Leadership

• Own the ITH product portfolio and lead strategic product roadmap development across the full product lifecycle.
• Translate market intelligence, customer requirements, and business objectives into differentiated product strategies and disciplined execution plans.
• Champion engineering excellence, technical innovation, manufacturability, performance, quality, and cost competitiveness in collaboration with Sandvik’s broader engineering network.

Customer & Market Engagement

• Serve as a senior technical and commercial representative for the ITH business unit, supporting strategic customer discussions and complex solution development.
• Strengthen customer confidence by balancing commercial objectives, operational capability, technical feasibility, and long-term customer value.

Operational Excellence

• Lead manufacturing operations, supply chain interfaces, quality, safety, delivery performance, capacity planning, and industrialization of new products.
• Drive operational discipline and continuous improvement to ensure the unit delivers reliably, efficiently, and in support of business growth.
• Ensure operational decisions support customer commitments, profitability, employee safety, and sustainable performance.

People & Culture Leadership

• Build, lead, and develop a multidisciplinary team, fostering a high-performance, inclusive, accountable, and safety-focused culture.
• Act as a visible and credible leader across the Winnipeg Unit and global Sandvik network, strengthening engagement, collaboration, leadership capability, and organizational effectiveness.

Candidate Profile

• A senior leader with a track record of managing complex industrial, manufacturing, engineering, product, or commercial operations.
• An enterprise-minded leader who can set long-term business direction while ensuring disciplined operational execution, supported by sound judgement, financial acumen, and credibility at all levels of the organization.
• A credible relationship builder who can influence across functions, geographies, and stakeholder groups while inspiring teams through change, growth, and performance expectations.

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Progressive leadership experience in commercial management, manufacturing, engineering, product management, or complex industrial operations.
• Demonstrated P&L ownership or financial accountability, with proven ability to balance growth, profitability, operational performance, and customer outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management, executive communication, collaboration, and influencing skills in a global or matrixed environment.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and driving performance in a technical, customer-focused, and operationally complex business.

The Opportunity

• A senior leadership mandate with direct influence over business performance, product strategy, customer outcomes, and operational excellence.
• The opportunity to lead a globally recognized Center of Excellence and shape the future direction of a critical underground mining technology portfolio.
• A visible role within a global organization, offering the scope to influence cross-functional priorities, advance innovation, and build organizational capability.
• Competitive total rewards, comprehensive benefits, pension matching, and ongoing development opportunities within Sandvik.

Our Culture

Our core values are the soul of our company. They guide our actions and daily business decisions. We are proud of our open-minded culture, where employees are encouraged to share ideas, challenge thinking, and work innovatively. We embrace diversity and inclusion and inspire everyone to bring their authentic selves to work every day.

We take pride in agile, customer-focused decision making and empower our employees through strong performance management, meaningful development opportunities, and the ability to grow their careers within a global organization.

Do you want to learn more?

To learn more about Sandvik, our people and products please visit our website: https://www.home.sandvik/en/about-us/     

How to Apply

If this mandate aligns with your leadership experience and ambition, we invite you to apply at www.sandvik.com/careers to the General Manager – ITH Business Unit Winnipeg position, requisition # R0095850. While we thank all candidates for their interest, only those considered for an interview will be contacted.

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity in the workplace, and we encourage applications from members of equity-seeking groups including women, racialized persons, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations or gender identities/expressions.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free experience for applicants with accessibility needs; therefore, requests for accommodation can be made at any stage during the recruitment process. Please contact [email protected] for more information.