General Manager - ITH Product Line

Sandvik•Winnipeg, MB

28d•Onsite

About The Position

Sandvik Canada is seeking a General Manager – ITH Product Line for its Winnipeg location. Sandvik is a global leader in underground mining equipment, tools, parts, service, and technical solutions. The Winnipeg ITH (In-the-Hole) Center of Excellence is the global hub for the design, manufacturing, and lifecycle support of Sandvik’s underground ITH drills and support units. This senior leadership role will provide strategic, operational, commercial, and people leadership for this globally significant product line, leading the Winnipeg Unit and approximately 50 professionals. The role carries accountability for the full product value chain, including product strategy, engineering development, operational execution, customer engagement, commercial performance, and profitability. The mandate is to shape the future direction of the ITH product line while ensuring disciplined execution, strong financial performance, technical excellence, customer confidence, and alignment with Sandvik’s values. Regular engagement with the global sales network and potential direct interaction with key customers and stakeholders is expected. This opportunity is suited for a commercially astute, technically credible, and operationally disciplined leader with experience managing industrial businesses, product lines, or manufacturing operations globally.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
Progressive leadership experience in commercial management, manufacturing, engineering, product management, or complex industrial operations.
Demonstrated P&L ownership or financial accountability, with proven ability to balance growth, profitability, operational performance, and customer outcomes.
Strong stakeholder management, executive communication, collaboration, and influencing skills in a global or matrixed environment.
Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and driving performance in a technical, customer-focused, and operationally complex business.

Responsibilities

Set the strategic direction for the ITH product line, ensuring alignment with Sandvik’s global business priorities, customer needs, and long-term growth agenda.
Provide full business leadership for the unit, with accountability for sustainable growth, profitability, investment priorities, resource allocation, and overall financial performance.
Identify and advance market opportunities in collaboration with sales, customers, and internal stakeholders, positioning the product line for long-term competitiveness.
Own the ITH product portfolio and lead strategic product roadmap development across the full product lifecycle.
Translate market intelligence, customer requirements, and business objectives into differentiated product strategies and disciplined execution plans.
Champion engineering excellence, technical innovation, manufacturability, performance, quality, and cost competitiveness in collaboration with Sandvik’s broader engineering network.
Serve as a senior technical and commercial representative for the ITH product line, supporting strategic customer discussions and complex solution development.
Strengthen customer confidence by balancing commercial objectives, operational capability, technical feasibility, and long-term customer value.
Lead manufacturing operations, supply chain interfaces, quality, safety, delivery performance, capacity planning, and industrialization of new products.
Drive operational discipline and continuous improvement to ensure the unit delivers reliably, efficiently, and in support of business growth.
Ensure operational decisions support customer commitments, profitability, employee safety, and sustainable performance.
Build, lead, and develop a multidisciplinary team, fostering a high-performance, inclusive, accountable, and safety-focused culture.
Act as a visible and credible leader across the Winnipeg Unit and global Sandvik network, strengthening engagement, collaboration, leadership capability, and organizational effectiveness.