IT Line Manager with a passion for people

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Your role

Saab is growing and we are changing our Group IT organisation to cope with the new and changing demands from our businesses and customers. Group IT is a central organisation responsible for IT deliveries and services to whole of Saab. Your role will be one of several IT Line Managers within Service Area IT Operations and you will report to the Department Manager.

As IT Line Manager you will be responsible for managing our highly competent people employees as well as consultants within our Onsite Support.

You will have up to 25 people reporting directly to you and you will work in close collaboration together with Service Owners and Service Managers who are responsible for delivering and developing our IT services as well as Project Managers for projects that are in need of competencies included in your team.

Your main responsibilities/tasks will be:

• Manage and be accountable for all personnel within your organization
• Resource Management (resource planning request management and consultant management)
• Recruitment and on-boarding as well as off-boarding of employees and consultants
• Competence development and strategic workforce planning
• Manage and reduce risks in regards to single competencies and critical resources
• Collaboration with key stakeholders
• Personnel budget within your organization
• Manage occupational health safety and risk issues as well as personnel security

At Saab IT we are currently developing our ways-of-working. You are expected to be a role model in this transformation and to be an active driver in the continuous improvement toward a more cross-functional and agile way of working.

Saab is a company where we see diversity as an asset and offer multiple opportunities for advancing in your career. By joining Group IT you will work in an innovative environment with many skilled colleagues contributing towards keeping people and society safe.

This role is located in Karlskoga.

Your profile

To succeed in the role you must be proactive and future oriented and have a great interest in people development. You are genuinely motivated by seeing others grow and succeed and you take pride in creating the right conditions for your team to perform at their best. You believe in challenging and supporting your colleagues through situational leadership and by practicing a servant leadership approach.

Furthermore we believe you have a customer oriented and business-like focus with a good analytical and solution focused mindset. You are an excellent team player but also used to work independently. To thrive with us you need to be service minded and like to work in an environment where conditions can change at short notice based on users needs. Your most important quality is that you have the will interest and commitment to learn.

For the role of IT Line Manager we believe that you have proven leadership skills and have experience in IT Service Management. You should have several years of documented leadership experience ideally within service or support-oriented environments. Experience from IT is a strong advantage but most important is your leadership your integrity and your ability to lead by example with strong values and professionalism. A positive and engaging attitude coupled with the ability to communicate effectively in both Swedish and English is essential. Your personal qualities and leadership mindset will be key factors in our selection process.

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement. You can send us your application in either Swedish or English.

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