Breeding leaders
Excellent leadership is a top priority for us and a key success factor. The corporate culture supports innovation, diversity, knowledge sharing and personal development. This has led to a stable supply of leaders, and a number of managers have also been recruited for president and CEO roles in other companies.
Offering internal job opportunities
We have a strong belief in entrusting individuals with responsibility and encouraging them to take the initiative, develop and grow. Mobility is one of the means to accomplishing this. In our dynamic internal job market, every job opportunity is offered to any qualified employee worldwide.
Development opportunities such as training and the chance to move across national and competence borders, between business areas, countries and functions, encourages growth on both a personal and a professional level.
With business in more than 180 countries, the field is wide open for new experiences.
From trainee to President and CEO
Our decentralized organizational structure, with global and independent divisions, also provides a natural path for leaders to develop.
The divisional presidents take full global profit and loss responsibility for the company’s highest operational activities – and get plenty of practice as “CEOs in training”.
These factors have resulted in many managers emerging and thriving. A shining example is Vagner Rego, our President and CEO as of May 1, 2024.
Before taking on this role, Vagner Rego was President of the Compressor Technique business area and a member of Group Management.
His journey in the Group started back in 1996, when 24-year-old Vagner applied for a trainee position at Atlas Copco in São Paulo, Brazil. Over the years, he gained more responsibility and more people to manage.
“If you want to develop a career and grow into becoming a leader, this is an amazing place to do so. If you focus on the right things and clearly understand your mission, you can be quite successful,” Vagner Rego said.
