Head Of Business Support

Head Of Business Support

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Your Role

In this role, you will lead the Business Support function within the Business Unit Digital Battlespace Solutions (DBS), with responsibility for both strategic organizational development and day-to-day operations. The role includes ensuring that the Business Unit (BU) is fit for purpose concerning efficiency, competence, and staffing—from initial offer to final delivery.

A key aspect of the role is maintaining the balance between supporting the organization and safeguarding the autonomy and integrity of a function including quality, improvements, and sustainability. You will play an active part in driving change within the Business Unit, ensuring that the BU focuses on the right priorities and continuously develops its ways of working, tools, and competence to be competitive in a world that changes very fast.

You will have line responsibility for a team located across two sites: Solna/Järfälla and Arboga. The team includes quality assurance throughout the full lifecycle of various projects, improvements, sustainability, sales and operation planning, and administrative support, where all have the same focus and ambition – to actively support BU DBS to deliver world-class products now and in the future.

As Head of Business Support, you will also have full responsibility for all aspects of personnel management within the team. This includes recruitment, development dialogues, competence planning, salary setting, and other areas related to team development and wellbeing.

You will be part of the Business Unit management team and drive topics across the BU. This includes ensuring process compliance, leading improvement initiatives, and overseeing the processes, methods & tools area to ensure that changes are effectively implemented. Collaboration with counterparts in other Saab organizations is also an important part of the role, to ensure knowledge sharing and harmonized ways of working.

Travel will occur in this position.

Your Profile

As the Head of Business Support, you are a proven leader with experience of line management and organizational development in large organizations. You are a trusting, inspiring, and coaching leader who creates a supportive working environment for your employees. You are able to see simplicity in complexity and provide clear direction as well as priorities effectively in the face of challenging situations. You have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, where you feel confident in your ability to build relationships, make decisions, influence, and provide advice.

Required skills:

• Master's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent professional experience
• Solid background in quality, with a strong understanding of material flows, processes, and regulatory compliance, preferably within the industrial sector.
• Practical experience with quality and analysis tools such as Six Sigma, 8D, 5 Why, and/or FMEA.
• Experience with Value Stream Mapping and/or LEAN methodologies.
• Experience in leading and implementing change in large high technology organizations related to methods, tools, and processes, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Strong business acumen and ability to connect improvement initiatives with broader business goals.
• Proficiency in Swedish and English, both spoken and written.

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around security protection. For positions requiring security clearance, additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

What You Will Be Part Of

Behind our innovations stand the people who make them possible. Brave pioneers and curious minds. Everyday heroes and inventive troubleshooters. Those who share deep knowledge and those who explore sky-high. And everyone in between.

Joining us means making an impact together, contributing in our own unique ways. From crafting complex code and building impressive defense and security solutions to simply sharing a coffee with a colleague, every action counts. We encourage you to take on challenges, to create smart inventions and grow in our friendly and tech-savvy workspace. We have a solid mission to keep people and society safe.

Saab is a leading defense and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 25,500 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

Saab designs, manufactures, and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors, and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defense capability of several nations. Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.