Unit Manager for the Planning Unit in Lerum Municipality

Lerum Municipality is known for its scenic locations with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents but expects to grow significantly in the coming years. Lerum is only a 20-minute commute from Gothenburg and is currently undergoing an intensive development period with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate.

Recently, Dagens Samhälle awarded Lerum the title of winner in the category of metropolitan municipalities (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas such as education, healthcare, economy, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business, and future factors such as digitalization and civil preparedness. We are now a Super Municipality!

Would you like to be part of the development work taking place within the Community Building Sector? The sector is currently implementing a new working method to achieve sustainable community planning with a holistic perspective that you will be part of.

We are looking for a unit manager for the planning unit. In the role of unit manager, you will be part of the management team of the operational area, contributing to the development of the operations within the entire community planning area.

The planning unit consists of a unit manager and fifteen colleagues and is responsible for processing detailed plans, planning decisions, and programs, as well as collaborating with other units that are part of the community building process. The operational area also includes the unit for strategic planning and land and development.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You are tasked with driving, leading, and developing the unit together with your employees and in collaboration with management, based on the core assignment and established goals. As a unit manager, you bear the main responsibility for the unit's economy, work environment, personnel responsibility, and ensuring that operations are conducted in accordance with applicable legislation.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Leading operations in accordance with the municipality's goals, assignments, and regulations
• Creating the greatest possible benefit with available resources
• Driving continuous improvement efforts, with innovation and new thinking in the development of the unit
• Driving the development of processes and lead times
• Ensuring that the entire operation can develop in accordance with governing documents and with a clear focus on residents
• Taking a broad societal interest and interpreting the surrounding demands on the organization
• Reporting results, analysis, and actions to the immediate supervisor

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with several years of documented experience in managerial and leadership roles. You have an academic education in community planning or another education that the employer deems relevant.

As a leader, you are confident, clear, and stable. You create structure and direction in the operations and contribute to good conditions for employees to develop in their professions. You lead through a developing leadership style where you utilize employees' competencies while setting frameworks, clarifying priorities, and making decisions when necessary.

The role requires you to be attentive to the needs of the operations and have good collaboration skills. As a manager, you actively work to develop working methods and collaboration within the unit, as well as to create a sustainable and trusting work environment with a shared focus on assignments and goals.

Experience in a politically governed organization, participation in the investment process, and portfolio management is advantageous. Experience with digital detailed plans, process development, and shortening lead times is also beneficial.

Personal suitability is of great importance.

We want to support you in your leadership!

We expect our managers to act authentically, exemplary, with personal care, and have the ability to inspire and motivate those we lead.

In Lerum Municipality, we work with developing leadership, and therefore, as a manager with us, you will receive basic training and further development within the framework of the municipality's Leadership Platform.

The Leadership Platform is designed to give you as a manager and leader the right conditions for your assignment. As a permanent manager in Lerum Municipality, you have a unique opportunity to develop with the help of models and work on how to improve your entire leadership and leadership behaviors, regardless of your level of experience.

Managers in Lerum Municipality are expected to formulate their own personal development plan based on developing leadership.

OTHER

The development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable, and our governance is based on the global goals of Agenda 2030.

We believe that our differences enrich and positively develop the individual, the operations, and society. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and harassment.

We care about a good work environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee with us, you will have access to a range of benefits, such as wellness grants and employee welfare programs. Read more about our employee benefits here: https://lerum.se/dina-formaner (https://lerum.se/dina-formaner)

As an employee in Lerum Municipality, there may be requirements to use personal Bank-ID in the service for legitimization in, for example, system login or other verification.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format.

Warm welcome with your application!

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