Commercial Director – Sweden (Kommersiell Direktör)
Commercial Director – Sweden (Kommersiell Direktör)
Location: Stockholm, Gothenburg, or Malmö
Travel: Up to 40% across Sweden
Reporting to: Country Managing Director, Sweden
Direct Reports: Sales, Marketing, and supporting commercial functions (approx. 8 direct reports)
Purpose
The Commercial Director will lead the commercial strategy and growth of Securitas Technology in Sweden. This senior role combines hands-on commercial leadership with strategic influence across sales, marketing, and customer offerings.
Working through first-line leaders, the Commercial Director ensures that Securitas Technology delivers profitable, sustainable growth by strengthening go-to-market strategies, building a strong sales engine, and fostering a collaborative, high-performing culture.
This is a role for a leader who thrives on driving results through others, shaping strategy, and adapting with agility in a fast-evolving market. The ideal candidate brings strong commercial acumen, a modern, digital mindset, and a proven track record of building and converting pipelines in both private and public sectors.
Major Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Development
- Inspire and empower leaders across sales and marketing to achieve business objectives.
- Build an inclusive, high-performance culture that encourages collaboration, accountability, and growth.
- Coach and mentor leaders, ensuring clear purpose, strong execution, and ongoing professional development.
- Promote engagement, pride, and cross-functional teamwork across the commercial organisation.
Commercial Growth & Market Strategy
- Lead the development and execution of commercial strategies that drive profitable growth and strengthen market position.
- Oversee new business development and customer retention across all business areas, including fire and security.
- Ensure strong sales execution by building pipeline discipline, supporting deal development, and enabling teams to close business confidently.
- Oversee pricing, offering development, and go-to-market initiatives that support company and market objectives.
- Use data-driven insights, analytics, and market intelligence to identify opportunities and refine strategy.
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with key clients, acting as a senior advisor and strategic partner.
- Drive uplift of existing contracts through value-led base selling, in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
Collaboration & Business Alignment
- Partner closely with Operations, Finance, HR, and Product to ensure seamless alignment between commercial objectives and delivery capabilities.
- Collaborate with the Head of Business & Offering on competitive product and service development.
- Contribute to the wider leadership team, sharing best practices and supporting group initiatives across regions.
- Represent Securitas Technology in strategic negotiations, industry forums, and events to strengthen market presence.
What Does Success look like
- First 90 days: Establish strong engagement with commercial leaders, align on strategy, and define clear performance goals.
- First 6–12 months: Deliver measurable growth in revenue and profitability, enhance client satisfaction, and strengthen team capability and collaboration.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Marketing, Sales, or related field.
Experience & Knowledge
- 10+ years of commercial leadership experience, with significant responsibility for sales, sales management, and go-to-market execution.
- Proven track record of building pipeline, developing customer opportunities, and closing deals.
- Experience selling to both private and public sector customers.
- Successful leadership of complex, cross-functional teams within B2B or technology-enabled environments.
- Deep understanding of sales and marketing processes, CRM use, and strategic business planning.
- Experience developing and executing pricing, product, and offering strategies.
- Fluent communicator in Swedish and English, with experience working in an international context.
- Skilled at balancing strategic direction with hands-on leadership and continuous improvement.
- Strong digital mindset, understanding the value of analytics, data-driven decision-making, digitalisation, and modern commercial ways of working (e.g., social selling, digital customer engagement).
Skills and Competencies
- Hands-on, empowering leadership that motivates and develops teams through first-line managers.
- Strong sales leadership with the ability to drive disciplined pipeline management and business development.
- Strategic and analytical mindset with commercial acumen and focus on profitable growth.
- Reflective, adaptive, and comfortable adjusting strategies based on outcomes and market shifts.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, building trust across diverse stakeholders.
- Results-oriented, structured, and adaptable in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Modern, IT-savvy working style with confidence in using digital tools, data, and technology-enabled solutions.
Why Join Us?
- Shape the Future: Develop and build on our success while helping shape the exciting future of Securitas Technology in Sweden.
- Unique Market Position: Join one of the few security companies with a large, global portfolio and reach, combined with strong local presence and customer focus.
- Strategic Impact: Influence the commercial direction and growth of a key European market.
- Leadership Opportunity: Lead a diverse commercial organisation spanning sales, marketing, and offering development.
- Empowered Role: Operate with strong executive support and freedom to drive meaningful change.
- Modern Workplace: Be part of a team that values the power of data, digitalisation, and innovative ways of working.
- Inclusive Culture: Join a collaborative leadership team that values innovation, diversity, and partnership.
- Purposeful Work: Contribute to making the world safer while supporting sustainable growth.
- Career Growth: Access personal development, mentoring, and global exposure.
Our People Promise – Securitas Technology EVP
Join a values-driven, diverse, and inclusive workplace. We offer clear career pathways, growth opportunities, recognition for achievements, and a global, collaborative team. You’ll do purposeful work that makes the world safer, with support for innovation and sustainability.
As part of our EVP, we offer:
- Career pathways and growth opportunities
- A global, values-driven team
- Recognition for achievements
- Inclusive, collaborative culture
- Purposeful work that makes the world safer
- Support for innovation and sustainability
Securitas Technology is committed to diversity and is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants are welcome.
- Department
- Securitas Technology
- Locations
- Sweden
- Remote status
- Hybrid
We Make A Difference Every Day!
We work in an international, explorative, hands-on and dynamic business environment with customers and users in focus.
Our core values: Integrity, Vigilance and Helpfulness - are foundations that enable us to build trust with customers, colleagues, partners and our community.
We love going to work and doing what we do.
About Securitas
Securitas is a world-leading safety and security solutions partner that helps make your world a safer place. With nine decades of deep experience means we see what others miss. By leveraging technology in partnership with our clients, combined with an innovative, holistic approach, we’re transforming the security industry. With 341 000 employees in 44 markets, we see a different world and create sustainable value for our clients by protecting what matters most - their people and assets.
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