Operations Manager - Mälardalen

Svevia AB (publ) · Vollzeit

Fleminggatan 20, Stockholm, Schweden

Building and maintaining roads and infrastructure is significant. Contributing to community development is even greater. With us, you get to do both. We are now looking for an Operations Manager for our operations and maintenance business in Mälardalen. Within Svevia, we combine the community and team spirit of a small company with the stability of a large enterprise. Here you will have the opportunity to develop as a road specialist—with commitment, collaboration, and responsibility. Your Assignment As Operations Manager for Mälardalen, you are responsible for developing and leading an operational area with broad scope and complexity. The area encompasses several different business types, including construction contracts, HP/SR, tunnel washing and basic maintenance, as well as some of the region's major projects. The assignment involves creating long-term growth combined with good profitability, high safety standards, and strong delivery capability. You drive the business forward by developing the business, identifying new market opportunities, and ensuring that the organization has the right conditions to grow in a sustainable manner. As a member of the region's management team, you also contribute to the strategic development of the region's operations and business. Your Main Areas of Responsibility Responsibility for operational results, business development, and long-term growth. Lead a broad business portfolio with multiple operational areas and contract types. Develop market work, customer relationships, and new business opportunities in the region. Ensure good commercial governance throughout the business, from bidding and contracts to risk management and execution. Prioritize and develop the business activities and market segments that strengthen the operation's competitiveness and profitability. Build on the organization's capacity through the right expertise, staffing, and working methods. Lead operations through project and site managers as well as managers within specialized activities. Ensure that operations are conducted with high quality, a strong safety culture, and high customer satisfaction. Actively contribute to the region's development as a member of the region's management team. Who Are You? We are looking for an experienced leader with documented ability to develop both businesses and organizations in complex operations. You have experience leading through other managers and thrive in a role where you need to create direction, prioritize, and make decisions that have an impact across the entire operation. You have a strong business understanding and good experience in construction operations, for example in construction, operations and maintenance, or related areas. You are experienced in working with economics, risk assessments, bidding processes, and contracts, and have a good understanding of the commercial conditions required to create sustainable and profitable businesses. As a person, you combine a strategic perspective with the ability to translate plans into practical action. You build trust through clarity, commitment, and leadership that gives others the mandate to take responsibility and develop. At the same time, you have the ability to unite operations with different skills and assignments around common goals and priorities. We believe that you have experience leading operations where complexity, change, and growth have been a natural part of the assignment. For us, documented ability to develop business, people, and organization weighs more heavily than the size of previous operations measured in revenue or number of employees. To succeed in the role, we see that you have: Experience in construction contracts as well as operations and maintenance activities. Experience in management roles with personnel, operational, and financial responsibility. Experience leading and developing other managers or leaders. Good understanding of business, economics, profitability, and risk management. Experience with budget, forecast, and results monitoring. Very good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written. B-class driver's license. It is a merit if you have: Experience in an Operations Manager role or equivalent. Experience in change and improvement work in larger organizations. Experience in operational development with a focus on profitability, structure, and monitoring. Part of Something Larger Svevia is today Sweden's largest operations contractor. Within operations and maintenance, we handle, among other things, summer and winter road maintenance for half of the state's road network. And many municipalities, private companies, and road associations hire us to take care of their roads and outdoor environments. With us, you contribute to a larger whole. We plow for families on their way to the mountains. We ensure that the business's goods transports get through and make sure that streets, squares, and parks are clean and tidy. We also protect lives on the road through our traffic management offerings. Why Svevia? Based on Svevia's strategies, goals, and values, you get the conditions necessary to make a difference and contribute to the company's development. Decision-making processes are short, it is easy to influence and make your voice heard. And with us, leadership is in focus, which means you continuously get the opportunity to develop in your role. We strive to be a workplace for everyone. That you should lead through your employees is something we take for granted. It is as a team that we create success. It is how we do business and generate results. It is how we make cities and countryside function. Do you want to share the road with us? Application You apply easily by submitting your CV and answering a few selection questions. Our recruitment process is based on a competency-based approach, which is a prerequisite for recruiting with quality assurance, inclusion, and without bias. That is why we do not want a cover letter. Submit your application as soon as possible and no later than September 27. Selection is made after the final application deadline. If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact recruiting manager Andreas Jonsson at [email protected]. For questions about the recruitment process, contact TA Business Partner Ludvig Zetterman Dahlen at [email protected].