Are you at the beginning of your career and want to take your first steps, or do you already have a few years of experience and want to take the next stride? Both are welcome!

As a business developer with us, you will become a key person in shaping the future's models and work processes for skills supply. You will maintain a dialogue with companies, analyze their future challenges and skills needs, and use this knowledge to develop training programs and forms of collaboration that create real value. With us, you will have plenty of room to take your own initiatives and develop in an environment that is constantly in motion.

About SUA

Skellefteå Universities Alliance, SUA, develops new ways to connect academia, business, and society. Our mission is to create more flexible, relevant, and accessible forms of education, skills development, and learning.

With Skellefteå as a testbed, we explore how the education system can meet a rapidly changing labor market. We do this together with companies, universities, vocational colleges, public actors, and other parties who want to be involved in shaping the learning of the future.

Your main areas of responsibility

Analysis & data
Collect and analyze insights, company dialogues, and other qualitative insights to create a deep understanding of companies' development, challenges, and future skills needs.

Collaboration & dialogue
Lead dialogues between business and educational actors based on the companies' needs and contribute to developing long-term partnerships and relevant forms of collaboration.

Digitalization & AI
Translate digital technology and AI-based tools into practical and scalable solutions in our business.

Process management
Drive development projects that create real, long-term value for both business and the educational system.

Who are you?

You are curious, analytical, and structured, and thrive on taking your own initiative when conditions change. You are unpretentious, communicative, and triggered by finding smart solutions to difficult questions.

You want to understand what creates real value for companies and how long-term partnerships between business and education are built. By combining analysis with insights from company dialogues, you contribute to developing both the education of the future and a strong partner network around SUA.

Your background and qualifications

Analysis
Experience in conducting interviews, needs analyses, or other qualitative data collection, as well as the ability to analyze and translate insights into concrete decision-making support.

Business understanding
Genuine interest in business, the development of companies, and how digitalization and automation affect their future challenges.

Digitally curious
You look forward to exploring how AI and insights can be used as decision support.

Meritorious

Understanding of the system
Good knowledge of, or strong interest in, labor market issues and the Swedish educational system.
Experience in regional development, EU projects, or innovation systems. 

This is what you get with us

At SUA, you will be involved at an early stage and influence how new models for skills supply, collaboration, and lifelong learning are developed.

You will become part of a small team with a large mandate, short decision paths, and close contact with academia, business, and social actors. The role is suitable for those who want to grow, take responsibility, and work with issues that are important for both Skellefteå and the education system of the future.

Here you get to combine analysis, relationships, and development work in a role where you both get to think strategically and translate ideas into practice.

About the employment

Scope:  Full-time. The position is a project employment for three years. A probationary period of six months may apply.

Location: Skellefteå
Last application date: Selection and interviews are ongoing, so do not wait with your application.

Does it sound like your next challenge? Submit your application today.