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About this Head of AI, Machining role at Sandvik

Sandvik · Onsite · Sweden, Stockholm

As AI adoption accelerates across Machining and throughout Sandvik, a unique opportunity is emerging to shape how AI creates value across a global industrial business. Working at the intersection of business, technology and transformation, you play a key role in turning AI potential into measurable business results and defining Machining’s future AI journey. 

 

About the job 

You strengthen Machining’s ability to identify, develop and realize value from AI. Working across divisions, common functions, Machining IT, Group IT and specialist communities, you build alignment, influence priorities, and help accelerate AI adoption and value creation across the organization.  

 

Job responsibilities 

  • Lead selected Machining-wide AI initiatives with clear business value. 
  • Support and coach divisions and functions that need additional AI expertise or capacity. 
  • Connect business needs with suitable technology, platforms, architecture and specialist competence. 
  • Guide AI opportunities from initial idea and business case through implementation, adoption and value realization. 
  • Drive change by building alignment, influencing stakeholders, and establishing ways of working that accelerate AI impact. 
  • Enable responsible AI by helping stakeholders navigate architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, legal, ethical and data requirements. 

 

Location 

This position is based at the World Trade Center in Stockholm. 

 

Your profile 

You’re a collaborative and business-oriented leader who enjoys shaping direction, influencing decisions and turning opportunities into tangible results. You bring senior experience from AI, IT, digital, data, analytics, or automation in a complex international organization. Combining a broad understanding of AI with practical delivery experience, you connect technology opportunities to business outcomes. 

 

Your background includes 

  • Practical experience developing AI use cases, business cases, implementation, adoption and value realization. 
  • A solid understanding of generative AI, machine learning, agentic solutions, analytics, automation, data foundations and cloud-based AI services. 
  • Experience leading cross-functional transformation initiatives and driving change across business units, functions and specialist organizations. 
  • A university degree, master’s degree, or equivalent training and experience in a relevant field. 
  • Fluency in written and spoken English. 

 

Experience from an industrial, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain or B2B environment is an advantage, as are knowledge of governance, portfolio management or ways of working for emerging technologies. 

 

Success in this position comes from your ability to build trust, influence stakeholders, and turn opportunities into results. You're comfortable navigating between strategic discussions and practical execution while balancing local needs with enterprise-wide value. 

 

Our culture 

Our role is clear – through every action, every day, we make the shift and advance the world through engineering. 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 options.  Are you intrigued? Visit our website, LinkedIn or Facebook page to get to know us further.  

 

Contact information 

For further information about this position, please contact Annika Hultqvist, hiring manager, +46 (0)70 616 03 21   

 

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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: Tanja Benavides 

 

How to apply 

Send your application no later than October 7, 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: R0096700. 

 

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 [email protected].     

 

Business area Machining is a global leading manufacturer of tools and tooling systems for advanced industrial metal cutting, as well as metal powder. In 2025, sales were approximately SEK 44 billion with about 18,700 employees. 

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Sandvik is a global, high-tech engineering group providing solutions that enhance productivity, profitability and sustainability for the manufacturing, mining and infrastructure industries. Our offerings cover the entire customer value chain and are based on extensive investments in research and development, customer insights and deep knowledge of industrial processes and digital solutions ​ In 2024 the Group had approximately 41​,000 employees and revenues of about 123 billion SEK in about 150 countries within continuing operations. Sandvik at a glance

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