Vacant job

Karlshamn Port is one of Sweden's largest and most versatile ports - a central logistics hub in the southeastern Baltic Sea region and a hub for liquid bulk, dry bulk, RoPax, storage including forest products, energy, and ferry traffic. We are on an extensive modernization journey with new business opportunities.

We are now looking for a business-driven engineer who wants to help shape the port's future business.

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About the role

As a Business Engineer, you are a key player in both driving new business and developing and streamlining existing business to strengthen the port's position and competitiveness. You work closely with customers, colleagues, and external partners - and take responsibility for the entire chain from business idea to delivered project.

You will be a central part of the port's modernization journey where you both enable new business and contribute to the development of our existing services, processes, and offerings. The role combines technical competence, business understanding, and project management.

You will also serve as redundancy in sales alongside our salesperson.

Key responsibilities in the role

• Initiate, evaluate, and develop business ideas in dialogue with both customers and internal stakeholders.
• Conduct needs analyses, develop business calculations, drive negotiations to agreements, and implement the project to completion.
• Drive innovation and development projects and maintain dialogue with authorities in permitting processes.
• Contribute to the port's strategic business development in both the short and long term.

The role reports to the site manager for Stillerydshamnen / Deputy CEO.

Your profile

We are looking for someone with an engineering degree and documented experience in driving complex business projects where technology, operations, and business intersect. To succeed in the role, you need to have industry knowledge in shipping, logistics, technology, infrastructure, or energy.

It is an advantage if you have experience from shipping, offshore, or similar sectors, as well as if you have worked in international projects or in matrix organizations with multiple stakeholders.

As a person, you have a strong ability for self-leadership and work systematically both in analysis and execution. You have a business-oriented approach, good technical understanding, and thrive in negotiation situations. Additionally, you are communicative and collaborative and have an easy time building relationships both internally and externally.

About Karlshamn Port

Karlshamn Port is one of Sweden's largest ports and plays an important role in the transport network in the southeastern Baltic Sea region. The port handles a variety of goods within liquid bulk, dry bulk, RoPax, rail, and storage. The company has about 100 employees and had a turnover of 239 million SEK in 2025. Read more at www.karlshamnshamn.se

Apply for the position today!

In this recruitment process, Karlshamn Port has chosen to collaborate with Jefferson Wells. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the responsible recruiter Linda Svensson at tel. 044-203871 or via email: [email protected]

Please note that applications are only accepted via jeffersonwells.se due to GDPR.

We welcome your application by April 12th.