Department Manager Shared and Corporate - Group IT

Your role

You will be a part of Group IT at Saab? Your role will be Department Manager, with an overarching responsibility for all the line functions within the Service Area Corporate Applications, and you will report to Head of Service Area Corporate Applications.

As Department Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring people management, employees as well as consultants, and resource planning in several competence areas such as Project Managers and IT Architects. You will lead a team of up to 25 people.

Your Department will manage and plan distribution of work in an overall perspective in close collaboration with Service Owners and other Department Managers, but also e.g. project managers in need of IT competencies.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Manage personnel and accountable for all staff within the area of responsibility
• Resource Management (Planning, Request Management and Consultant Management)
• Recruitment and on-boarding as well as off-boarding of employees and consultants
• Competence development and workforce planning
• Manage and reduce risks in regards to single competencies and critical resources
• Collaboration with key stakeholders
• Annual budget for the staff and personnel budget within the area (IB)
• Manage and make changes within the authorized budget for the area
• Manage Occupational Health, safety and risk issues as well as personnel security in cooperation with Organisational Support
• Facility coordination in cooperation with Organisational Support

The workplace is located in one of our locations: Solna, Linköping or Göteborg,

Your profile

For the role as Department Manager, we believe that you have some of the following skills or experience:

• You have a Master of Science or Bachelor degree or have equivalent work experience within relevant area
• Broad experience in People Management, Change Management, Resource Planning
• Previous experience of Leadership roles
• Working knowledge of relevant business practices and legislation (environmental, labour)
• Experience working with continuous improvements and standardising ways of working
• Experience and knowledge in Financial Management
• Broad understanding of support functions within an IT Delivery organisation and IT Service Management
• Experience of Agile working methods
• Speak and write fluent Swedish and English

We are looking for you who have the appropriate skills, experience and ability to handle the above challenges. We think that you have a great interest in people and technology and be passionate about supporting your colleagues and team. To succeed in the role, you must have excellent communication skills and have the ability to lead and motivate people and you like to work in an environment where conditions can change at short notice. You are used to, and like to work independently but are also a good team player.

As a person, you are eager to develop and learn, are committed to work towards goals and focus on results. The most important is that you have the will, interest and commitment to learn.

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of 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 defence 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 defence 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 defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here.

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.