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About the role
Are you ready to take the next step in your career and work closely with corporate acquisitions, strategy, and business development within an international industrial group with a strong growth agenda? Axel Johnson International is now looking for a Project Manager M&A & Strategy for the Transport Solutions business area, based in Gothenburg. Transport Solutions generates approximately 3 billion SEK in revenue, operates in 12 countries, and consists of around 20 companies within cargo securing, vehicle components, and marine solutions. Acquisitions are a central part of the business strategy, with the ambition to execute a significant number of international acquisitions in the coming years.

This role is ideal for you who currently work in audit, business controlling, M&A analysis, or Transaction Services and wish to broaden your expertise in corporate acquisitions, strategy, and project management. Here you will have the opportunity to work with the entire acquisition process – from analysis and screening to due diligence, preparing board materials, and working on integration – while gaining insight into leadership and strategic work at an international level.

You will report directly to the Business Area Manager and work closely with the leadership team in Gothenburg as well as Axel Johnson International’s central M&A function in Stockholm.

Responsibilities
In the role of Project Manager M&A & Strategy, you will:

• Lead and coordinate acquisition processes from target identification through to completed acquisition and integration
• Conduct financial analyses, company valuations, and simpler financial due diligence
• Compile decision support materials, investment reports, and board documentation
• Manage and coordinate documentation such as NDAs, LOIs, SPAs, and other contractual processes
• Collaborate with external advisors within legal, financial, commercial, and sustainability-related due diligence
• Identify and analyze potential acquisition targets, markets, and competitors internationally
• Participate in strategic work and business development initiatives for Transport Solutions and its business areas
• Support the leadership group and board work, and participate in subsidiary board meetings as needed
• Contribute to the development of methods, processes, and tools that strengthen the acquisition work

The position involves international travel, typically 2–3 days every other week, with periods of more intensive travel.

Who are you?
We prefer that you have a degree in Business Administration or equivalent academic education and a few years of experience from audit, controlling, transaction services, or M&A-related work. You have built a strong financial foundation and are now eager to develop further in a business-oriented role where analysis is combined with project management, strategy, and international corporate acquisitions. You need to have a good understanding of income statements and balance sheets, as well as financial analysis, and experience in preparing and presenting reports and decision support materials. Experience with due diligence processes is a plus. Furthermore, you must have excellent skills in Excel and PowerPoint and be fluent in Swedish and English.

As a person, you are business-oriented and curious about companies and industrial operations, structured, and skilled at driving multiple parallel projects forward. You will have extensive external contact with company leaders, owners, etc., so good communication skills are important. You need to be unpretentious and thrive working in a smaller team.

What we offer you
Axel Johnson International offers a unique opportunity to develop within M&A, strategy, and business development in an international industrial group with long-term ownership and strong growth ambitions. You will become part of an engaged team in Gothenburg where entrepreneurial spirit, collaboration, and short decision-making paths characterize daily life. At the same time, you will have access to the resources, network, and development opportunities of a global corporation. The location is at the Transport Solutions office at Vasaplatsen in Gothenburg.

Application
In this recruitment, Axinter collaborates with Jerrie AB. Welcome with your application! Selection is ongoing, but the final application deadline is Sunday, August 16. Have questions? Please contact recruitment consultant Martin Dahlberg at 0763-17 07 41 or via email [email protected], though with limited availability during vacation weeks 29-32.

At Jerrie, we work with a fair selection process linked to a requirement profile. We do not use AI in screening and selection – all applications are read by a human. Read about Jerrie's recruitment process here: https://jerrie.se/rekryteringsprocess (https://jerrie.se/rekryteringsprocess)