Business Development Manager

Do you have a solid business acumen and the ability to foresee opportunities and challenges? Does your problem solving and interpersonal skills enable you to be a trusted advisor of senior executives? Join our global team in Stockholm, Sweden, and enjoy a collaborative culture that empowers you to build a career you can be proud of.

ASSA ABLOY Group is the global leader in access solutions. The Group operates worldwide with 63,000 employees and sales of over EUR 13 billion. The Group has leading positions in areas such as efficient door openings, trusted identities and entrance automation.

What will you do as our Business Development Manager

You will drive Group-wide projects withing strategy and business development, as well as supporting in delivering market insights to senior stakeholder to the group. In these projects you will work closely with Commercial and M&A Development in all divisions as well as with Director of Strategy and Business Development and Group Chief Commercial Officer.

In this role you will regularly interact with the members of the Group Management and get exposed to senior leaders within the Group which offers great career opportunities for future General Management positions or functional roles.

You would also:

• Support the Group strategy development process by creating presentations for internal and external stakeholders and by driving or facilitating strategy workshops and sessions.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders within the group innovation and group sustainability team
• Evaluate new business opportunities through the development of strategic reports and market studies for new markets or product areas.
• Establish and maintain insights through analysis of industry, market and customer trends, and competitors’ activities. 
• Support planning and execution of yearly group strategy conference for top leaders across the group
• Project manage Group-wide development projects in areas such as branding, AI, communications and more

 We are looking for someone who has:

• 3-5 years of management consulting or business development experience in a similar or adjacent industry, e.g. security, construction, industrial goods, etc.
• Master degree in engineering and/or business/finance/economics.
• Experience from projects within strategy, due diligence and sales & marketing
• Strong problem-solving capabilities
• Ability to influence complicated and delicate business issues through extensive internal -and sometimes external- interactions.
• Good interpersonal skills, with tact and diplomacy to ensure successful delivery of projects.
• Strong communication skills, ability to interact at all levels of the organisation.
• Proficiency in English and a Scandinavian language, both written and spoken, required. Other languages a clear plus given the global nature of the role.
• Position may involve travel according to project type and duration.

Experience working with international, cross-functional, and cross-cultural teams or have lived and worked in other countries is considered a plus but not a prerequisite.

We review applications regularly, so don’t wait!

We are building diverse, inclusive teams, and encourage applications from everyone who can see themselves working with us. Just set up your profile and apply,no later than 1st of February. To make sure your personal data is safe, we don’t look at any applications sent by email or post. If you have any questions about the role or the process, email Camilla Heneby, Executive Search, at camilla.heneby@assaabloy.com