Head of PU Future Products

Saab

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Göteborg - Sweden

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: Yesterday
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Want to influence the bigger picture At Saab you can realise amazing innovations that keep people and societies safe. Together we can truly make an impact and your part matters.

Your role

You will take on a key leadership role in driving the development and launch of Saabs new unmanned AEW capability UAEW Pod. The assignment combines strategic direction with hands-on leadership in a growing and internationally oriented program including close collaboration with partners in the US.

This is a role for a senior leader who is motivated by building new capabilities shaping organizations and delivering results in a complex defense environment.

In this role you will:

  • Lead the development and market introduction of Saabs new unmanned AEW product UAEW Pod driving the program from concept through industrialisation and market entry.
  • Establish and lead the transatlantic collaboration with General Atomics and Saab the United States ensuring alignment performance and long-term strategic positioning.
  • Develop and implement new ways of working building scalable structures governance and processes to support growth and execution excellence.
  • Lead and coordinate Production and Procurement across organisational boundaries securing industrial readiness supply chain robustness and delivery capability.
  • Build and scale the organisation initially leading a team of approximately 1020 employees with responsibility to grow and strengthen the capability over time as the programme expands.

You will report to the Head of BU Airborne Early Warning and work in close collaboration with senior stakeholders across the business unit and the broader Saab organization. The role may involve occasional travel.

Your profile

You are a forward-thinking and structured leader with a strong technical background ideally a degree in engineering combined with a sharp strategic mindset. You thrive in complex environments and have a proven ability to lead initiatives from idea to implementation.

You likely bring:

  • Proven experience leading and developing a product-oriented development and business organisation with full accountability for performance growth and strategic direction.
  • An entrepreneurial builder mindset with the ability to establish scale and professionalise structures capabilities and ways of working.
  • Excellent communication and executive leadership skills with the ability to engage boards senior stakeholders and cross-functional leadership teams.
  • Fluency in both Swedish and English written and spoken with the ability to confidently represent the organisation in senior forums and international contexts.
  • Documented experience of leading managers and teams with full personnel responsibility delivering results through others in complex environments.

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.

What you will be part of

Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges create smart inventions and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds brave pioneers and everyone in between. Together we achieve the extraordinary each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26100 talented people Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

Saab designs manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics weapons command and control sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about ushere


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Company in Brief Saab serves the global market with world-leading products, services and solutions from military defence to civil security. With operations on every continent, Saab continuously develops, adapts and improves new technology to meet customers’ changing needs. At Saab we ... View more

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