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Regional Director at Ahlsell – One of the Company's Most Critical Leadership Roles

Leading a region at Ahlsell is about much more than traditional sales leadership. It is one of the company's largest and most business-critical assignments, with responsibility for a business generating billions in revenue, hundreds of employees, and a region of significant strategic importance for Ahlsell's continued growth.

Ahlsell is now seeking a Regional Director for Region Central.

A role with significant authority

The role requires a leader with experience driving larger business operations where strategic vision, commercial accountability, and operational presence have been decisive. It is about setting direction, creating growth, and developing people – but also about being close to the business, customers, and daily operations.

Region Central generates approximately 3.2 billion SEK and consists of around 220 employees and 11 stores. The region stretches from Arvika in the west to Strängnäs in the east, covering a large part of central Sweden, including towns such as Karlstad, Örebro, Eskilstuna, and Västerås. The role involves responsibility through several layers of management and places high demands on business acumen, leadership, and the ability to navigate a complex, high-tempo organization.

As Regional Director, you lead a growth-oriented business with great breadth and dynamism. You have overall responsibility for the region's business, results, and continued development, while also expected to create engagement, build strong teams, and develop leaders and the organization over time.

– We want leaders who build trust, create engagement, and help people grow. You need to make business decisions, understand the numbers, and drive results, but also create energy in the organization and bring people along with you, says Christian Morton-Fincham, Sales Director at Ahlsell Sweden.

The assignment involves close collaboration with the division leadership, Swedish leadership, and other regions, where you are expected to contribute both strategically and operationally to Ahlsell's continued development. The role requires the ability to switch between analysis and relationships, between long-term direction and presence in daily business.

For the right person, this is an opportunity to take on one of Ahlsell's most significant leadership roles, with great impact, significant authority, and excellent development opportunities.

A culture of high trust

The culture at Ahlsell is characterized by simplicity, responsibility, and openness. Despite the company's size, there is a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a decentralized way of working where decisions are made close to the operations. This is also evident in the view on leadership. Here, presence, accessibility, and a grounded approach are highly valued.

– Our employees know their business best. Therefore, it is important to create a climate of high trust and significant personal responsibility. We believe in leaders who are close to their teams and who build strong relationships over time, concludes Christian.

In this role, you are responsible for, among other things:

• leading and developing the region's business with full P&L and growth responsibility
• developing the management team and organization through an present and value-driven leadership style
• ensuring the implementation of Ahlsell's strategy and continued market growth
• strengthening the business through close collaboration with customers, the market, and internal stakeholders
• driving change, development, and improvement initiatives in the region

Are you the one we are looking for?

We are looking for you who are a confident, business-driven, and development-oriented leader with experience leading larger operations through other managers. You combine strategic vision with operational engagement and have the ability to create both results and long-term trust in the organization.

You thrive in an environment with high tempo, complex businesses, and many contact points, where success is built on business acumen, clear leadership, and strong collaboration.

We would like you to have:

• experience leading larger business or sales organizations with full P&L responsibility
• documented ability to create growth and drive change in complex operations
• experience leading through multiple management layers and developing strong management teams
• good strategic and analytical skills as well as strong business sense
• a leadership style characterized by clarity, trust, and the ability to create engagement
• experience from matrix organizations is an advantage
• academic degree or equivalent experience
• excellent knowledge of Swedish and English

You are expected to travel throughout the region, but the placement is at one of the offices in Karlstad, Örebro, Eskilstuna, or Västerås.

About the company

At Ahlsell, you will join a warm culture where our core values of simplicity, responsibility, and openness permeate our operations. The values describe how we work and how we relate to customers, suppliers, society, and not least, to each other. Do you want to make a difference? Our vision at Ahlsell – We build a more sustainable society – describes what our operations and offerings aim to achieve. At Ahlsell, we are part of our customers' daily lives; we help them make it easier to be pros. At Ahlsell, employees are the most important thing we have, and together with our engagement and knowledge, we can become better than yesterday every day. To thrive with us, you like working in an open, positive, and entrepreneurial culture where you have the opportunity to grow and develop. Simply put, "the best time in your working life" – our employee promise to you!

Information and application

In this recruitment, Ahlsell collaborates with AxÖ Consulting. For more information about the position, contact the responsible recruitment consultant Jenny Berg, 072-074 19 99, [email protected], or Linda Axäng, 079-340 54 42, [email protected].

Contact person for Unionen:

Lena Bergman, 0213-72 00 14, [email protected]

Selection and interviews are conducted continuously, and the position may be filled before the application deadline. Therefore, please submit your application as soon as possible.

We look forward to receiving your application!