Business and Development Manager – a Key Role in the Municipality's Development

Lekeberg is situated between the offerings of the big city and the idyllic countryside! We aim to be an attractive employer where employee participation and leadership are characterized by involvement and opportunities for influence. We strive to be an efficient, sustainable, and safe municipality for our residents and employees. Positive development and future investments characterize Lekeberg, and we are steering towards new and exciting challenges! Do you want to join us on this journey? Read more about our municipality at www.lekeberg.se (http://www.lekeberg.se)

The Municipal Executive Administration has a collective responsibility to lead, manage, monitor, and support the municipality's committees and operations. Here, there are several strategic functions such as finance, HR, and administration – as well as the Business and Development Department (NLU), which has a special mission to drive the municipality's development forward. Lekeberg Municipality has about 650 permanent employees.

Job Responsibilities

As the Business and Development Manager, you play a key role in the municipality's future work. You drive development initiatives, strengthen dialogue with citizens and businesses, and contribute to creating good conditions for collaboration between the municipality and entrepreneurs. With a clear service focus, you convert needs into concrete development that makes a difference – for both the business community and the municipality as a whole. As the Business and Development Manager, you report directly to the municipal manager and are part of the municipal management team. You have overall responsibility for the Business and Development Department, which includes operations, employees, finances, and work environment.

Central aspects of the role include:

• Driving digitization and automation of the municipality's processes
• Developing modern and accessible digital services
• Leading municipality-wide business development and change work
• Ensuring that development projects are carried out with a clear results focus
• Strengthening quality and legal certainty in the municipality's working methods
• Developing and deepening dialogue with the business community
• Representing the municipality in networks and strategic collaborations
• Monitoring trends in innovation, digitization, and societal development
• Supporting municipal management in strategic development and investigation issues

Through clear and engaging leadership, you create conditions for the department to contribute to the municipality's long-term goals and development.

Qualifications

We are looking for an experienced and committed leader. To succeed in this role, you should be a confident and experienced manager with a strong commitment to society and a clear ability to translate strategic goals into concrete results. You work in a structured manner, are attentive and communicative in your leadership, and have a good ability to create engagement and collaboration. You navigate effortlessly between politics, operations, and external collaborations, and have experience in driving business development in project form. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

You meet the following requirements:

• A relevant academic education or equivalent experience
• Documented experience in leading business development and change work
• Several years of experience in management roles with personnel, budget, and work environment responsibilities
• Experience working in a politically governed organization
• Excellent ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing
• Valid driver's license (B)

Meritorious:

• Experience in business development
• Digitization
• Project management

Our Offer

We offer you a developing assignment to grow with us at Lekeberg Municipality. As an employee with us, you will have the opportunity for modern, hybrid working methods with flexibility between working on-site at the municipal office in Fjugesta and remotely.

• A pleasant workplace with a sense of community
• A great team of employees
• Close leadership
• A job with proximity to engaged colleagues
• Professional development
• Opportunity for a company car and benefit bicycle
• Wellness allowance of 3000 SEK/year
• Opportunity for vacation exchange

Other

You submit your application via our electronic recruitment tool. It is therefore important that you fill in all steps carefully so that we can make a proper assessment of your application.

Some positions are security classified, so a security protection interview may also be relevant in the recruitment process.

We have actively chosen our recruitment channels and therefore kindly ask for no direct contact with recruitment and staffing companies or advertisement sellers in connection with this recruitment.

We warmly welcome you to submit your application to us!