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About Us

Sussa Samverkan is a joint collaboration organization where nine of Sweden's regions cooperate to develop and manage common digital solutions for healthcare. Together, the regions work towards good, equitable, and efficient care, with a focus on long-term development, joint governance, and shared knowledge. One of the largest assignments is the joint healthcare information support system, Cosmic, used by tens of thousands of employees in healthcare. Sussa Samverkan operates on behalf of the regional directors and is a key player in the ongoing digitalization of Swedish healthcare. Read more here, Sussa Samverkan.

Responsibilities

Sussa Samverkan is seeking a COO with full responsibility for operational leadership. The role is central and ensures stability, progress, and delivery in a complex collaborative environment between the regions. As COO, you will act on behalf of Sussa Samverkan's steering group, report to the steering group, and serve as the presenter at meetings. The assignment involves clear and extensive executive responsibility, where you are expected to take a comprehensive approach to both operational control and strategic direction. The role requires very high operational and strategic capability, secure and clear leadership, and strong legitimacy in both regional and national collaboration. The role entails significant responsibility and high expectations, where the ability to lead, drive, and hold the organization together during change is crucial. You must be able to make decisions even under uncertainty, prioritize in complex situations, and create clarity, stability, and progress in a dynamic and multifaceted collaborative structure. As COO, you are expected to lead change, translate joint decisions into concrete action, and ensure that the steering group's direction is implemented within the organization.

Leadership and Governance

• Serve as the steering group's primary operational support by delivering high-quality decision-making materials and clear consequence analysis.
• Ensure that the steering group's decisions are implemented in operations through clear control, follow-up, and accountability.
• Actively develop and maintain robust structures for governance, responsibility, and decision-making within Sussa Samverkan.

Supplier and Contract Responsibility

• Be responsible for continuity, quality, and structure in relationships with key suppliers and partners, as well as other strategic collaboration forums.
• Ensure professional, business-oriented, and consistent handling of contract issues, including follow-up on commitments, deliveries, deviations, and changes.
• Represent Sussa Samverkan in dialogue, negotiation, and escalation with suppliers, ensuring a balanced trade-off between the regions' needs, agreed commitments, and suppliers' delivery capabilities.

Collaboration and Culture

• Represent Sussa Samverkan with a unified regional perspective and act as a unifying force between participating regions and collaboration partners.
• Create trust, stability, and a calm working environment in a virtual and geographically dispersed organization through clear communication, structure, and presence.
• Promote a good leadership and employee culture within Sussa Samverkan, characterized by trust, clarity, accountability, and respect, in line with Sussa Samverkan's values and common ways of working.

About You

In the role of COO at Sussa Samverkan, we are looking for a secure, mature, and action-oriented leader with the ability to navigate complex collaborative environments with many stakeholders and high delivery requirements. You take responsibility, make well-founded decisions even when conditions are uncertain, and create trust through clarity and integrity.

Essential Requirements

• Relevant academic education with a focus on leadership, business development, IT/digitalization, or healthcare, or equivalent documented experience.
• Documented experience of operational leadership in a complex organization, preferably within the public sector or another large operation with many stakeholders.
• Experience working with a steering group, board, or equivalent decision-making forum, including the preparation of decision-making materials.
• Experience leading, coordinating, and driving operations without formal line management responsibility, in environments requiring collaboration across organizational boundaries.
• Good and documented experience of contract and supplier management, including follow-up and handling of deviations.
• Documented experience of representing the organization in the media, including handling press inquiries and interviews.
• Very good ability to express yourself clearly, structured, and professionally in speech and writing in Swedish.

Merits

• Experience of regional and/or national collaboration, preferably in environments with multiple owners and complex governance.
• Experience working with large IT and/or business programs, preferably within healthcare or other critical societal operations.
• Knowledge of and experience with portfolio management, program management offices (PMO), the pm3 management model, and/or the ITIL framework.
• Experience working in a virtual and geographically dispersed organization, with collaboration across regional and organizational boundaries.

You are:

• Secure in yourself and have high integrity.
• Clear and structured, even under pressure.
• Capable of prioritizing and making decisions with incomplete information.
• Create trust, stability, and calm in complex contexts.
• Action-oriented, responsible, and driving in your working style.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Warmly welcome to apply!

For questions regarding the position, please contact Anders Sundström, Chairman of Sussa Samverkan, [email protected], 072 557 50 26, as well as the responsible manager in Region Halland for this role, Patrik Dahlqvist Jönsson, [email protected], 070-320 66 51.

The staffing of this role takes place within Sussa Samverkan, and the selection will therefore be made from applicants from all nine Sussa regions.

Due to the joint process, recruitment to Sussa Samverkan may take longer, as each application is carefully reviewed and considered. You are always welcome to contact the designated contact persons if you have any questions or concerns.

Our Offer

It is important to us that you enjoy and develop in your work.

Read more about what Region Halland can offer you as an employee here.