About the workplace

Do you want to help shape the future of Helsingborg? We are now looking for someone to drive and coordinate Helsingborg's work with Smart City – a mission that involves much more than technology. You will play a key role in building structure, collaboration, and value creation through digitization in our urban development. This is a senior role with strategic and cross-organizational responsibility. You will become the city's specialist in the Smart City area and have a large mandate to set direction, drive change, and create long-term societal benefits.

As the program manager, you will be placed in the City Management Administration, in the unit for strategic community development. We are located in the ocean harbor at the Center for Innovation. You will work together with colleagues in the department and in the city, but also with companies, the business community, and civil society.

Job Responsibilities

We have come a long way in digitalization, sustainability, and innovation – but now we need to take a comprehensive approach to how we create value from smart solutions in our city. It involves connecting digital technology, urban development, and community services with clear structures, roles, and long-term value. You will work in a complex environment where you need to be able to drive change, manage many stakeholders, and sometimes navigate conflicting goals.

As the Smart City program manager, you will lead the work to:

Establish and manage a coordinated portfolio of smart city initiatives
Create a common overview of needs, efforts, strengths, and gaps
Ensure collaboration between different administrations and external parties – e.g., urban planning, digitalization, finance, Pingday, and other infrastructural actors
Promote and contribute to a clear division of responsibilities and structure between administration and operations to foster the city's development as a smart city
Highlight how technology creates societal benefits, e.g., in mobility, safety, reuse, energy, digital services, and environmental monitoring
Contribute to making the city a platform for innovation – where other actors can also be smart
In close collaboration with the city's testbed operations, strengthen Helsingborg as a platform where external actors can test and develop smart solutions in a real environment

In this role, you will receive:

A very large scope of action and freedom to own and drive the task
The opportunity to make a real impact in a strategically important issue for the city
Work in an ambitious organization that wants to be at the forefront of innovation
A central role with high visibility and significant interest from politics
Great flexibility regarding remote work

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who is a systematic, attentive, and visionary enabler and coordinator – and who:

Has experience in program and portfolio management, particularly in innovation, technology, or urban development areas
Is accustomed to working cross-sectorally and in complex organizations, where collaboration is key to success
Has a good understanding of the logic of community building and can connect technology to physical and social urban development
Understands and can communicate the value of data, AI, IoT, and other key technologies – without getting stuck in the technology
Is strategic, structured, communicative, and gets things done in collaboration with others.
Has the ability to create order in the unclear while thinking long-term

In this role, it is essential that you can act as the city's representative and driving force in the matter, with the ability to build trust, create clarity, and drive change in an environment with many wills.

Desirable qualifications:

Experience in building governance models or coordination structures for cross-cutting work
Familiarity with the public sector and municipal operations
The ability to build trust with both managers, colleagues, and external partners
Insight into operational, financing, and management issues related to digital solutions

What we offer

A flexible and creative work environment in a city lab where you can test, evaluate, and scale.
Close collaboration with management, administrations, the business community, and academia.
A satellite office in Malmö – perfect for those living or working across the strait.
Opportunities for professional development, influence, and long-term responsibility.

With us, health and balance are a natural part of working life. You will receive 25–32 vacation days depending on age and can choose whether to exchange vacation pay for extra time off. We offer flexible working hours that make it easier to balance everyday life and 3,000 SEK in wellness benefits each year so you can take care of your health in the way that suits you best. Additionally, there is an opportunity to salary exchange for pension and to reduce working hours after the age of 63.

We look forward to your application

We look forward to your application by March 1st. Final interviews will be held on March 13th and/or 16th on-site in Helsingborg. In this recruitment, we are collaborating with Capus. For further information regarding the position, please contact Johanna Wållgren at 072-660 18 68 or [email protected] or Linn Strandh at 79-559 10 01 or [email protected]

Working in Helsingborg City

Do you want to help create a better city together with the residents of Helsingborg? Then you should work in Helsingborg City. Here you can use your creativity and drive to make life easier and safer for our residents, visitors, and businesses. Together with curious and helpful colleagues, you make a difference in people's lives, both today and in the future. A good job today, a better city tomorrow.

You can read more about what it's like to work in the city: https://helsingborg.se/arbete/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-i-staden/ (https://helsingborg.se/arbete/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-i-staden/)

Other information

Application deadline: March 1, 2026

Employment type: Permanent

Extent: Full-time

Start date: By agreement

Number of positions: 1

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Union representatives

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