Step into a broad leadership role at the heart of Saab’s digital transformation. As Deputy Group CIO and Head of CIO Office, you will drive strategic IT initiatives, build core capabilities, and help shape how technology supports Saab’s mission in a rapidly evolving defence and security landscape.
Your role
As Deputy Group CIO & Head of CIO Office at Saab Group IT, you will support the Group CIO in leading the strategic direction of IT across the organisation. You will drive Saab’s IT agenda forward by ensuring close alignment between IT strategy and business needs, and by enabling efficient execution across core IT and related functions.
You will lead a central team with responsibility for a number of key cross-functional areas within the IT organisation. The role includes line management of senior leaders and involves working closely with other parts of the organisation to ensure alignment and effective collaboration across strategic and operational initiatives.
In this role, you will lead the development of the CIO Office, ensuring the right capabilities and engagement are in place to support Saab’s digital ambitions. You will manage budgeting, forecasting, and organisational planning within your scope. A key part of the role involves working closely with business areas and functions across the organisation, and contributing to the development of Saab’s IT operating model, governance, and quality frameworks.
This is a highly visible position that involves frequent interaction with executive stakeholders. You will represent Group IT in cross-functional discussions and play a central role in enabling Saab’s continued transformation journey.
Your profile
We are looking for someone with extensive experience in leading senior IT professionals and managing complex IT organisations in a global context. You have a strong track record of driving digital transformation and organisational change, with a deep understanding of IT strategy, governance, and modern technology landscapes including cloud, AI, and platform thinking.
You combine strategic thinking with a strong drive for execution. You are structured, communicative, and clear in your approach, while also pragmatic and able to build trust across diverse stakeholder groups. You know how to lead through others, create engagement, and navigate change in large organisations.
You are a relationship-oriented leader who is comfortable representing IT at top management level and can clearly articulate the rationale behind strategic decisions.
Key qualifications and experience:
- Academic degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience
- Minimum 10 years of IT management experience, including several years of leadership of leaders
- Proven experience from digital transformation and large-scale IT programs
- Strong background in IT strategy, enterprise architecture, governance, and project management
- Experience from large, complex organisations; ideally including defence or global industrial/manufacturing companies
- Excellent communication skills and ability to manage complex stakeholder landscapes
- Fluency in both Swedish and English, both written and spoken
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