Regional Manager at Ahlsell – One of the company's most important leadership assignments
Leading a region at Ahlsell is much more than traditional sales management. It is one of the company's largest and most business-critical assignments, with responsibility for an operation that generates billions in revenue, hundreds of employees, and a region with great strategic importance for Ahlsell's continued growth.
Now Ahlsell is seeking a Regional Manager for Region Mellan.
An assignment with significant authority
The role requires a leader with experience driving larger business operations where strategic vision, commercial responsibility, and operational presence have been decisive. It's about setting direction, creating growth, and developing people – but also about being close to the operations, customers, and business in daily work.
Region Mellan generates approximately 3.2 billion kronor in revenue and consists of around 220 employees and 11 stores. The region stretches from Arvika in the west to Strängnäs in the east and covers a large part of central Sweden, including cities such as Karlstad, Örebro, Eskilstuna, and Västerås. The role involves responsibility through several management levels and places high demands on business acumen, leadership, and the ability to navigate a complex organization with high pace.
As Regional Manager, you lead a growth-oriented operation with broad scope and dynamism. You have overall responsibility for the region's business, results, and continued development, while you are expected to create engagement, build strong teams, and develop leaders and the organization over time.
– We want leaders who build trust, create engagement, and help people grow. You need to make sound business decisions, understand the numbers, and drive results, but also create energy in the organization and bring people along with you, says Christian Morton-Fincham, Sales Director at Ahlsell Sweden.
The assignment involves close collaboration with division management, Swedish management, and other regions, where you are expected to contribute both strategically and operatively to Ahlsell's continued development. The role requires the ability to switch between analysis and relationships, between long-term direction and presence in daily business.
For the right person, this is an opportunity to take on one of Ahlsell's most significant leadership assignments, with great impact, significant authority, and excellent development opportunities.
A culture with high trust
The culture at Ahlsell is characterized by simplicity, responsibility, and openness. Despite the company's size, there is a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a decentralized way of working where decisions are made close to operations. This is also evident in the view of leadership. Here, presence, availability, and a down-to-earth approach are highly valued.
– Our employees know their operations best. Therefore, it is important to create a climate with high trust and significant personal responsibility. We believe in leaders who are close to their teams and who build strong relationships over time, concludes Christian.
In this role, you are responsible for, among other things:
leading and developing the region's operations with full profit and growth responsibility
developing the management team and organization through engaged and values-driven leadership
ensuring implementation of Ahlsell's strategy and continued market growth
strengthen the business through close collaboration with customers, market, and internal stakeholders
drive change, development, and improvement initiatives in the region
Are you the one we're looking for?
We are looking for someone who is a confident, business-driven, and development-oriented leader with experience leading larger operations through other managers. You combine strategic vision with operational engagement and have the ability to create both results and long-term trust in the organization.
You thrive in an environment with high pace, complex business, and many contact points, where success is built on business acumen, clear leadership, and strong collaboration.
We would like to see that you have:
experience leading larger business or sales organizations with full profit responsibility
documented ability to create growth and drive change in complex operations
experience leading through several management levels and developing strong management teams
good strategic and analytical abilities as well as strong business sense
leadership characterized by clarity, trust, and the ability to create engagement
experience from matrix organizations is a plus
academic degree or equivalent experience
very good knowledge of Swedish and English
You are of course expected to work throughout the region, but placement is at one of the offices in Karlstad, Örebro, Eskilstuna, or Västerås.
About the company
At Ahlsell, you join a warm culture where our core values of simplicity, responsibility, and openness permeate our operations. These values describe how we work and how we relate to customers, suppliers, society, and not least, to each other. Want to be part of making a difference? Our vision at Ahlsell – We build a more sustainable society – describes what our operations and offerings aim for. At Ahlsell, we are part of our customers' everyday lives; we help them make it easier to be professionals. At Ahlsell, our employees are the most important thing we have, and together with our commitment and knowledge, we can improve every day compared to yesterday. To thrive with us, you enjoy working in an open, positive, and entrepreneurially driven culture where you get the opportunity to grow and develop. Simply put, Regional Manager at Ahlsell – One of the company's most important leadership assignments
Leading a region at Ahlsell is much more than traditional sales management. It is one of the company's largest and most business-critical assignments, with responsibility for an operation that generates billions in revenue, hundreds of employees, and a region with great strategic importance for Ahlsell's continued growth.
Now Ahlsell is seeking a Regional Manager for Region Mellan.
An assignment with significant authority
The role requires a leader with experience driving larger business operations where…