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Your role
Saab business area Dynamics is looking for a Head of Operational Security. As a Head of Operational Security at business area Dynamics, you will work in an international environment where advanced security threats are part of the everyday business alongside complex business environments and projects with high business impact.
In your role as Head of Operational Security, you will be leading the team who coordinating the support to the business units in the areas of analyzing security risks, identifying and prevent security threats, handling of and compliance to external and internal security demands.
You will be manager for the team of business and operation unit security managers and a part of the security management team.
Your main tasks will be:
Manager for the business unit security manager team
Part of the management team for BA Dynamics security
Operational manager for the security function
Compliance management
Teaching, training and presentations
All parts of protective security management will be a major part of your everyday work and the operations manager will lead, guide and support others in the team.
Your profile
Personal qualities will be of great importance, you are a true team player, always focusing at the team’s results and supporting the business and the company.
It is paramount that you are trustworthy with strong ethics and personal integrity and you understand the need for balanced security in a business-driven environment.
Required skills:
A university degree or equivalent competence acquired through work life experience in security risk management, crisis management and/or similar
Several years of experience from working with security risk management, crisis management and/or similar within the Saab context or similar
Experience from working with operational management
Experience from working with Swedish protective security
Leadership/management experience
Good problem-solving skills
Good communication skills in Swedish and English, verbal and written
Desired skills:
Experience from working for government authorities or in a global context including understanding of information security related issues in the business process
Experience from working with GSA´s, Classifications guides, security within contracts in and outside Sweden
Good knowledge about Saab´s routines and processes
Ability to build and maintain networks and good relations inside as well as outside your own organization
Experience from working with incident handling and/or incident investigations
Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.
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 22,000 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