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About the Workplace

The City Environment Administration has a comprehensive responsibility for the city's public spaces and overall accessibility.

We work to create accessible, attractive, and vibrant urban environments and natural areas. The administration owns and manages the tram network in Gothenburg. Approximately 900 people work at the administration.

The City Environment Administration is part of the urban development administrations in Gothenburg City. Together, we work to create conditions for a functioning infrastructure, quality housing and premises, an inviting public environment, and to ensure that the city becomes sustainable from all perspectives.

Description

Do you want to contribute to developing the city's working methods and create structure, coherence, and impact in the development work? Do you have experience in business and process development and thrive in a role where you work closely with both managers, operations, and IT? Then this could be the right role for you. We are now looking for a business developer with project responsibility for the mobility and service trips department.

About the Role

As a business developer with us, you have a central role in supporting managers and operations in the development of working methods, processes, and collaboration within the department and administration. The assignment involves creating structure and coherence in the development work, identifying areas for improvement in existing working methods, and contributing to ensuring that changes are implemented and have an impact in the operational activities.

The role also includes being a sub-project leader for the operational part of a project aimed at developing working methods and IT support to strengthen the administration's digital delivery capacity. The work is carried out in close collaboration with relevant operational units, the IT unit, and project management. You are responsible for the operational part's work package within VERKKO and work independently with a clear focus on delivery.

Job Responsibilities

As a business developer, you drive the work of developing and improving the department's working methods and processes. You contribute with structure, methodology, and a holistic perspective and work closely with managers, operations, IT, and other functions. Your assignment includes, among other things:

• Driving and coordinating the department's overall business development together with other business developers
• Mapping, analyzing, and developing central processes and working methods
• Identifying bottlenecks, ambiguities, and inefficiencies in existing working methods
• Supporting managers and operations in change and development work
• Contributing to linking operational goals, planning, and operational implementation
• Ensuring that implemented changes lead to the intended effect in the operations
• Being a support and sounding board in development issues within the department.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with a relevant higher education degree at least at the bachelor's level. We also see that you have experience in:

• process and/or business development
• mapping, analyzing, and developing working methods
• working in projects, as a project leader or sub-project leader
• current situation and needs analysis.

It is advantageous if you have:

• experience from public operations or politically governed organizations
• experience in digitalization or data sharing projects
• experience from traffic, infrastructure, or urban environment-related operations
• knowledge of change management
• experience in governance, follow-up, or quality work
• experience from complex organizations with many stakeholders.

To succeed in the role, we see that you are analytical and development-oriented with the ability to see the whole and drive improvement work forward. You are communicative with very good skills in Swedish, both spoken and written. You are collaborative and create good dialogue and cooperation with different actors. Furthermore, you are goal- and results-oriented and work structured with a focus on delivery and implementation.

Welcome with your application!

Conditions

We are currently renovating our workplace at Köpmansgatan 20, where all urban development administrations will gather. The new premises are expected to be ready in 2026 – until then, we are located at Åvägen 17E.

With us, you will work in an administration focused on development, collaboration, and diversity. We offer flexible working hours (with exceptions in certain departments), wellness benefits, and cycling benefits - to help you combine an exciting job with a sustainable private life.

As an employer, we have an obligation to ensure that you have the right to reside and work in Sweden. Therefore, at a physical interview, you will need to show a passport or national ID card.

Want to know more about us? Follow our company page on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/stadsmiljo-goteborgs-stad/) and Snapchat (https://www.snapchat.com/add/stadsmiljogbg).