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Do you want to work for an agency with an important societal mission that contributes to creating a safe and secure society? Do you have prior experience leading a large government operation? Then this might be the position for you!

As Head of the Control Division, you lead the Swedish Customs Administration's largest division and hold a responsible and significant role. As Head of Division, you are part of the agency's management group.

The Swedish Customs Administration's operational activities are divided into four divisions: Control, Revenue, Intelligence, and Customs Crime. The Control Division has a broad mandate to ensure that only approved goods cross the border. The task involves conducting customs controls on imports and exports where the Swedish Customs Administration looks for goods that violate restrictions and ensures that the correct customs duties and taxes are collected.

The division consists of a total of approximately 950 employees divided into four geographic units: South, West, East, and North, each led by a Unit Manager. As Head of Division, you are responsible for the Control Division and lead your division's management group. You have an Assistant Head of Division to assist you, and you also have management support at your disposal.

About the Position

As Head of the Control Division, you have overall responsibility for leading and managing the operations, achieving good results, and practicing good leadership. Your main tasks include:

• Responsibility for the Control Division's goals and results, strategic responsibility for the management and control of operations, and overall budget and personnel responsibility.
• Develop operations and lead change initiatives.
• Adapt operations to changed conditions and prioritize what is most important in the short and long term.
• Lead and develop your management group and create good conditions for subordinate managers to lead their operations.
• Maintain a good awareness of the external environment and understand how the external environment affects the Swedish Customs Administration's operations and act accordingly.
• Represent the agency in external contexts, both nationally and internationally.

Are You the One We Are Looking For?

We are looking for you who have:

• Several years of experience from similar senior management positions involving leading and developing a large operation and achieving good results.
• Experience in management group work and experience leading through subordinate managers.
• Current experience from a management position in a government agency and understanding of how an agency functions in management, control, organization, and follow-up.
• University education or experience that we assess as equivalent.
• Leadership training.
• Swedish citizenship.

It is an advantage if you have:

• Experience of international work.
• Experience of the division's area of operations or other similar operations.

Personal Qualities

We place great emphasis on you being an experienced leader with good leadership skills. You are accustomed to developing both people and operations through coaching and communicative leadership, and you understand the importance of creating engagement and responsibility among your employees. As a person, you have the courage to make decisions, show drive, and steer towards set goals through subordinate managers. We also place great emphasis on your ability to drive strategic and overarching development issues. You have experience leading and driving change initiatives and can challenge yourself and others to stimulate innovation and change. You have a strategic perspective and a good holistic view. You should be communicative, easy to collaborate with, and able to establish contacts with others both within and outside the Swedish Customs Administration.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability!

We Offer You

By working at the Swedish Customs Administration, you have an important job where you contribute to a safe and secure society. We value well-being and learning from each other highly, and we strive for you as an employee to have a good balance between work and leisure. With us, you get secure employment conditions, and our benefits include, among other things, fitness allowances, subsidized medicines, and good holiday and pension conditions. There is an opportunity to work partially from home when operations allow. As Head of Division, you have flexible working hours and the possibility of a company car.

Other Information:

Reference Number: TV-20206-15207

Location: Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö

Employment Type: The position is a permanent employment with individual salary setting. Within the Swedish Customs Administration, time-limited management appointments of 5 years with the possibility of extension are applied.

Start Date: By agreement

To be considered for employment at the Swedish Customs Administration, you must meet high demands regarding security and confidentiality awareness, suitability, and compliance with current laws. This means you uphold democratic values and the public sector values applicable to the Swedish Customs Administration's operations. Before a decision on employment is made, you will undergo a drug test and background check. Security clearance with register check according to the Security Protection Act is conducted before employment, as the position is classified. The Swedish Customs Administration is a total defense agency, and upon employment, you will be mobilized for war service within the Swedish Customs Administration. Conducting manager tests may become relevant during the recruitment process. The Swedish Customs Administration values the qualities brought to operations by having an even gender distribution and ethnic diversity.

For More Information and Application

Information about the position can be provided by Johan Norrman, 08-405 00 22 or Bodil Taylor, 08-456 55 60. For questions about the recruitment process, you can call the Swedish Customs Administration's HR support at tel. 060-67 25 85. Union representatives are for OFR-P/TULL-KUST, Ulf G Persson, tel. 040-661 33 and for Saco-S, Katarina Hernhut, tel. 08-456 52 65.

Your application with a accompanying cover letter and CV/resume must reach the Swedish Customs Administration by August 16. You apply via the electronic application form below.

We decline all contact with staffing and recruitment agencies as well as sellers of job advertisements.

The Swedish Customs Administration is a government agency that controls the flow of goods across Sweden's borders. With the vision that only approved goods should pass the border, we prevent illegal goods from entering the country and contribute to a safer society. We simplify trade with other countries and lay the foundation for increased growth and competition on equal terms. The Swedish Customs Administration, founded in 1636, currently has approximately 2,700 employees and is led by Director General Johan Norrman.