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About this Inventory Planner role at Sandvik

Sandvik · Onsite · Sweden, Malmö

Do you want to turn demand insights into the right inventory decisions? As Inventory Planner at our division mobile crushing & screening, you ensure material availability for production and aftermarket needs while balancing service, cost, and working capital. 

 

About the job 

You optimize inventory levels across raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods. By analyzing demand patterns, inventory performance, and supply risks, you help maintain reliable material availability and improve supply chain efficiency. You report to the Inventory Manager. 

 

Job responsibilities 

  • Monitor inventory performance and identify risks related to shortages, excess stock, and obsolescence. 
  • Develop replenishment plans and inventory strategies that balance customer requirements with inventory investment. 
  • Collaborate with production planning, procurement and suppliers to secure continuity of supply. 
  • Analyze performance metrics and maintain inventory dashboards and planning reports. 
  • Support S&OP, demand planning, and activities that address capacity constraints. 
  • Drive improvements in inventory accuracy, planning processes, system use, and obsolete and slow-moving inventory management. 

 

Location and flexibility 

The primary location is Malmö, with flexibility for you to be based elsewhere in Sweden. Travel is part of the job, including visits to the factory in Northern Ireland. 

 

Your profile 

You bring solid experience from inventory planning, materials planning, supply chain, or production planning in a manufacturing, engineering, distribution, or aftermarket environment. With a strong analytical approach, you make sound decisions based on data, business insight, and changing supply needs. 

 

Your background includes 

  • Experience developing and implementing inventory control strategies that improve accuracy, availability, and service performance. 
  • Knowledge of ERP or MRP planning systems and inventory management processes. 
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel. 
  • Experience collaborating across functions to resolve supply challenges and achieve shared outcomes. 
  • A track record in forecasting, replenishment planning, supplier collaboration and obsolete and slow-moving inventory management. 
  • Fluency in English, verbally and in writing.  

 

Knowledge of inventory optimization and forecasting techniques, experience with Power BI or other reporting tools, and a relevant bachelor’s degree are advantageous. 

Structured and detail-oriented, you take initiative and stay focused when priorities shift. You communicate inventory risks clearly, build productive relationships across teams, and use a practical, collaborative approach to move decisions forward. 

 

Our culture 

At Sandvik, we’re tech driven, innovative and entrepreneurial. We believe that success is a team effort so we value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where people can be themselves and reach their full potential. So, we invest in supporting each other, learning together and celebrating our differences. Visit our stories hub, LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us further. 

 

Contact information 

For further information about this position, please contact Neil Gillen, hiring manager, [email protected] 

 

We’ve already decided on which advertising channels and marketing campaigns we wish to use and respectfully decline any additional contacts in that matter. 

 

Union contacts – Sweden 

  • Mårten Lindberg, Unionen, +46 (0)76 111 03 36 
  • Jonny Hansson, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)76 126 45 81 
  • Michael Wicktor-Ohlsson, Ledarna, +46 (0)70 251 44 57 

 

Recruitment Specialist: Ulrika Gruffman 

 

How to apply 

This recruitment has an ongoing selection process, please send your application as soon as possible, and no later than November 4, 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: R0098704. 

 

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 Rock Processing is a global leading supplier of equipment, service, and technical solutions for crushing, screening, breaking and demolition in the mining and infrastructure industries. In 2025, sales were approximately SEK 10 billion with about 2,800 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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