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Falun, Dalarnas Län, Sverige

Stockholm, Stockholm, Sverige

As Head of Business Area Management I lead a team of industry experts consisting of Business Area Managers and Business Developers. I have P&L responsibility for my part of the organisation and work with OKR:s to drive and follow up our teams. The mission of Academic Work is to make people grow. Through that mission we help companies grow and gain a competitive edge. My team holds the greatest concentration of expertise and experience in the Swedish staffing and recruitment sector covering… Show more As Head of Business Area Management I lead a team of industry experts consisting of Business Area Managers and Business Developers. I have P&L responsibility for my part of the organisation and work with OKR:s to drive and follow up our teams. The mission of Academic Work is to make people grow. Through that mission we help companies grow and gain a competitive edge. My team holds the greatest concentration of expertise and experience in the Swedish staffing and recruitment sector covering all major industry segments: IT, Tech, Engineering, Finance, Customer Service, Logistics, Sales etc.In my role I am currently involved in projects related to internal training initiatives, external partnerships, commercial development (including price strategies) and international commitments from my team. Show less

Stockholm, Sverige

Academic Work is one of the leading job placement companies in Sweden, with operations in six countries in total. Today, we’ve helped more than 160,000 young professionals find a job and start their careers, while also fulfilling our clients' recruitment needs and helping them to grow. We pride ourselves on having the most satisfied clients in the industry, since 2011.Business Area IT have been at the forefront of innovation in the staffing and recruitment industry when it comes to… Show more Academic Work is one of the leading job placement companies in Sweden, with operations in six countries in total. Today, we’ve helped more than 160,000 young professionals find a job and start their careers, while also fulfilling our clients' recruitment needs and helping them to grow. We pride ourselves on having the most satisfied clients in the industry, since 2011.Business Area IT have been at the forefront of innovation in the staffing and recruitment industry when it comes to placements within IT for the past decade. Initiatives such as Academy have been created within our corridors, and we continuously strive to find new ways to help our clients grow in today's war for talent.My role is to set the strategic agenda for the business area and to drive business development, sales and operations initiatives. This involves a lot of internal training as well as client interactions. I lead a team of Business Developers who support all our branches nationwide.During my time as Business Area Manager I drove the implementation of a specialized IT-recruitment organisation. As a result, the Business Area achieved a growth exceeding 40% during 2022. I also established a new foundation for training of Sales and Operations employees enabling a more rapid onboarding and further development. In addition, I helped strengthening our offer to our consultants and I established Academic Work as a long-term partner for "Techarenan". Show less

Stockholm, Sverige

Academic Work is one of the leading job placement companies in Sweden, with operations in six countries in total. Today, we’ve helped more than 130,000 young professionals find a job and start their careers, while also fulfilling our clients' recruitment needs and helping them to grow. We pride ourselves on having the most satisfied clients in the industry, since 2011.As a Business Developer I worked with our sales and delivery teams to find solutions to our customers needs for… Show more Academic Work is one of the leading job placement companies in Sweden, with operations in six countries in total. Today, we’ve helped more than 130,000 young professionals find a job and start their careers, while also fulfilling our clients' recruitment needs and helping them to grow. We pride ourselves on having the most satisfied clients in the industry, since 2011.As a Business Developer I worked with our sales and delivery teams to find solutions to our customers needs for competence growth. This involved carrying out training internally, for Sales as well as Operations employees, in addition to client interactions. I worked within Business Area IT, with a focus on the IT-Industry across all our offices in Sweden.A key achievement was my contribution to establishing a new business model within our Academy concept, which yielded multiple training programs in partnership with SaaS companies such as ServiceNow and Salesforce. Show less

Stockholm, Sweden

Benify is the leading tech company in the Compensation and Benefits sector in northern Europe. Every day 800,000 employees across Fortune 500 as well as smaller companies use services provided by Benify for the administration of compensation and benefits schemes.At Benify I led a multidisciplinary department of content, language, UX and system specialists whose focus it was to implement solutions on our platform, solve problems and to work for long term improvements to our platform and… Show more Benify is the leading tech company in the Compensation and Benefits sector in northern Europe. Every day 800,000 employees across Fortune 500 as well as smaller companies use services provided by Benify for the administration of compensation and benefits schemes.At Benify I led a multidisciplinary department of content, language, UX and system specialists whose focus it was to implement solutions on our platform, solve problems and to work for long term improvements to our platform and benefit offerings.My role was to develop the team, its individuals and to build a scalable and flexible organisation. This involved recruitment, role development and succession planning.During my time at Benify I grew the team from 5 to 14 individuals with zero undesired staff turnover. I managed to achieve a much higher output from the team and greater customer satisfaction, which enabled us to support additional departments internally and to onboard additional responsibilities in the team both nationally and internationally. I also established and staffed the very first in-house copywriting desk. Show less

Stockholm, Sweden

At Addcent my role was that of a Salesforce Business Consultant/Business Analyst where I participated in pre-studies aiming to set the roadmap for implementation of CRM-platforms at our clients. During my brief period at the company I participated in a key project for the company at a major Telco client.I participated as a Business Analyst in a 5 month pre-study which laid the foundation for a CRM transformation estimated to bring efficiency and productivity improvements in the 10-digit… Show more At Addcent my role was that of a Salesforce Business Consultant/Business Analyst where I participated in pre-studies aiming to set the roadmap for implementation of CRM-platforms at our clients. During my brief period at the company I participated in a key project for the company at a major Telco client.I participated as a Business Analyst in a 5 month pre-study which laid the foundation for a CRM transformation estimated to bring efficiency and productivity improvements in the 10-digit range. My areas of responsibility included workshop planning and facilitation, requirements gathering and business case estimations. Show less

Stockholm, Sweden

In my partial role as System Owner Finance, I was the Product Owner for the Academic Work portfolio of Finance systems and ERP components. Together with key stakeholders in the Finance department I oversaw the development and coordinated the maintenance activities which supported the products within the Finance Maintenance Object. The outcome of this effort was a way of working with prioritisation and planning of software maintenance to the Finance systems.

Göteborg, Sverige

At Academic Work, I managed the requirements and change processes concerning the business system used to manage job postings, candidate applications, recruitment processes, time logging, payroll and invoice exports. The system was used daily by 600+ internal users and 4000+ consultants.I served as the maintenance manager for the system and was the point of contact for internal stakeholders as well as our systems supplier in the UK. A key achievement involved establishing and managing… Show more At Academic Work, I managed the requirements and change processes concerning the business system used to manage job postings, candidate applications, recruitment processes, time logging, payroll and invoice exports. The system was used daily by 600+ internal users and 4000+ consultants.I served as the maintenance manager for the system and was the point of contact for internal stakeholders as well as our systems supplier in the UK. A key achievement involved establishing and managing, over 2 years, an offshored software development team at the supplier site in Kharkiv, Ukraine. By mission from the CIO, I established a fruitful collaboration with the remote development team which led to increased efficiency and lowered development costs. Show less

Gothenburg, Sweden

Academic Work is an agency and expert recruiter of young professionals in the fields of IT, Engineering, Sales, and Finance. We can help your organisation with both temporary and permanent placement needs. Currently, we operate in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Germany. In my role as IT Coordinator, I strived to enhance the way we did business by analysing market needs and trends. On a daily basis, I served as a technical advisor to our staffing and recruitment teams within IT at our… Show more Academic Work is an agency and expert recruiter of young professionals in the fields of IT, Engineering, Sales, and Finance. We can help your organisation with both temporary and permanent placement needs. Currently, we operate in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Germany. In my role as IT Coordinator, I strived to enhance the way we did business by analysing market needs and trends. On a daily basis, I served as a technical advisor to our staffing and recruitment teams within IT at our offices in Gothenburg, Linköping and Malmö. Show less

Uppsala, Sweden

At Blixtvik I have been doing in-house development of customer management and business management software. I have been involved in all phases of development including requirement specification, design, implementation and testing.

Uppsala, Sweden

As amanuensis I focused on three areas related to the students at the department: public relations, quality in education and corporate relations.As a university representative I travelled to career fairs to meet and recruit high school students. In my corporate relations capacity I organized corporate events on campus and connected recruiters with students.

M.Sc., Information Technology Engineering

Activities and Societies: Chairman of IT-Sektionen Student Organization (2007) Webmaster of IT-Sektionen Student Organization (2006-2008)

Postgraduate Cert., Computer And Information Sciences

Masters thesis carried out at Auckland University of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand.