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Your role
Shape the future of multi-domain operations. As Head of MDO & Future Battlespace, you will lead our cross-domain, tech-forward Product Unit that explores, prototypes, and delivers projects in emerging mission domains. This role combines hands-on delivery of new projects in unexplored areas, with the responsibility to influence the BU’s R&D agenda, transition successful pilots into the core platform, and engage with partners and customers to shape tomorrow’s battlespace.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the MDO & Future Battlespace Product Unit
- Oversee program delivery for active contracts, ensuring targets for schedule, budget, quality, and gross margin are met.
- Engage with customers and partners to co-create operational concepts and shape long-lead requirements
- Owns higher-level tactical and strategic C2 (HQ-level command systems) as part of the MDO portfolio
- Run early-stage projects and pilots, incubating new domains
- Build, lead, develop and scale a high-performing team with the right competences for today and tomorrow.
- Collaborate with Core Development to ensure all prototypes are platform first and reusable where possible
- Develop the team’s innovation culture, encouraging rapid prototyping, agile delivery, and cross-domain collaboration
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and represent the unit across Saab and the defense sector
- Own the unit’s budget, forecasts, and financial performance.
Your profile
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced leader with excellent communication skills who is also a people's person. You are strategic and analytical, with a strong ability to solve complex problems while also being hands-on and results-oriented when needed. With a structured and disciplined approach, you take ownership of your responsibilities and cultivate an environment of openness and trust. Your leadership fosters collaboration, inspiring those around you to achieve greatness. You are a confident leader with a proven track record of building and motivating teams, and you have a communicative leadership style that builds trust internally and externally.
To succeed in this role, we believe you have:
- Proven leadership in innovative, cross-domain teams in defense, or other complex high-tech environments.
- Strong understanding of multi-domain operational concepts and emerging defense technologies.
- Experience running early-stage projects.
- Experience managing P&L, budgets, and large-scale program delivery.
- Strong operational focus with financial accountability.
- Excellent communicator and stakeholder manager (Swedish & English).
- Skilled in people leadership, resource planning, and competence development.
- A structured way of working that you can also create and communicate to your team.
- A keen interest in learning new things and adapting to different environments and cultures.
We value not only your skills and experience, but also place great importance on your personal qualities. To us, it is essential that you contribute to a positive working environment, enjoy collaborating with others, and have an attitude that supports both the team’s and the organisation’s development.
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
Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.
Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,000 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
Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.