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We're now looking for a committed, people-oriented leader to lead and empower our team of HR Business Partners who makes people strategy happen. You´ll play a key role in our cultural transformation by strengthening leadership and enhancing employee engagement across the business.
Your role
As HR Business Partner Manager, you will lead and support a team of HRBPs who work closely with our business leaders to drive the people agenda to enable long-term success. At Aeronautics, you’ll join a supportive and ambitious HR community where we value teamwork, openness and continuous learning. Your mission is to support the team’s development, coach and inspire them in their daily work, and ensure that our shared ways of working are effective, modern and aligned with our strategic direction. You will collaborate closely with the Aeronautics HR specialist functions covering areas such as leadership, talent, learning, compensation, and OHS and wellbeing – to ensure that initiatives are well anchored and successfully implemented across the business.
You will report to the Head of HR Business Partnership and be part of the leadership team, together with the HR Team Leads for each Business Unit, in which the HRBP´s operate.
What you’ll do
- Lead, support and coach a team of HR Business Partners with diverse backgrounds and experience
- Drive clarity, collaboration and consistency in how we work across the HRBP function
- Support the implementation of Saab-wide initiatives within leadership, talent and learning, wellness etc.
- Be a trusted sounding board and work closely with BU HR Team Leads to ensure alignment and delivery
- Contribute to the continuous development of our ways of working, culture and employee experience
- Act as business enablers by identifying and evolving the most efficient and effective ways of working to support long-term success
Your profile
We’re looking for an experienced leader with a passion for people, collaboration and development. You don’t need to have a formal background in HR – what matters most is your ability to lead through others, bring clarity, and create an environment where people grow and thrive. You enjoy working across a wide network, balancing strategic direction with operational follow-through, and you bring the energy and structure needed to keep momentum over time. You’re also someone who can spot opportunities to simplify, streamline and continuously improve how work gets done.
To thrive in this role, you likely have:
- Solid leadership experience, including responsibility for people and team development
- Strong interest in leadership, employee engagement and organizational development
- A coaching mindset and ability to build trust across functions and levels
- Experience from complex, cross-functional organizations
- Fluency in Swedish and English
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’ll be a 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.