Program Manager at Saab in Karlskoga

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Your Role

The Program Manager (Contract or Operations Responsible i.a.w GMS) governs our contractual obligations towards the customer and ensures that all conditions are fulfilled in order to successfully deliver customer contracts on time and budget. To initiate, maintain and develop interpersonal relations, internally and with customers and partners, is an important ingredient in the job.

The contracts can both be within the product support area as well as complex system (system of systems) deliveries. The work is done in a team context where the Business Unit provides several of the Contract Management roles such as Product and Commercial management. Close cooperation with Operations in terms of Development, Purchasing and Production is also of essence.

You will work with experienced professionals in an environment that depends on the necessity of close cooperation between several roles, functions and partners.

You will be part of the Program department within Business Unit Missiles with Program Managers located in Karlskoga. For this role, you will have your office in Karlskoga.

Your Profile

We think that you have well-developed project management skills spiced with commercial and business experiences, preferably in an international context. Negotiation skills, with an associated sense for diplomacy, drive and integrity, are also important properties in your character. An interest in the technical dimension is also required.

As for all managerial roles, it is also vital that you have an ability to take initiative, communicate expectations, conditions and requirements in order to build teams and drive progress with sustained performance for everybody involved.

We think that you have a Bachelor or Master's degree in relevant College education and good communication skills in English, verbal and written.

Driving license including the ability and will to travel both within Sweden and abroad.

It is a merit if you have relevant international experience from the defense industry in a similar role with experience in translating customer needs or requirements to functions and activities.

Experience of the products in Business Unit Missile Systems portfolio is also a strength.

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around 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.

What You Will Be a Part Of

Behind our innovations stand the people who make them possible. Brave pioneers and curious minds. Everyday heroes and inventive troubleshooters. Those who share deep knowledge and those who explore sky-high. And everyone in between.

Joining us means making an impact together, contributing in our own unique ways. From crafting complex code and building impressive defense and security solutions to simply sharing a coffee with a colleague, every action counts. We encourage you to take on challenges, to create smart inventions and grow in our friendly and tech-savvy workspace. We have a solid mission to keep people and society safe.

Saab is a leading defense and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 25,500 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 defense capability of several nations. Read more about us here.