At Saab, you have the opportunity to build your career at the intersection of law, technology, and global security. As Legal Counsel within Corporate Export Compliance, you will develop deep expertise in a highly complex and business-critical area—while contributing to solutions that are aligned with Saabs mission to keep people and society safer.
Your future challenge
In your role as Legal Counsel, Corporate Export Compliance, you will be given an exciting and challenging opportunity to grow and develop with the tasks, and you will be supported by your colleagues when dealing with complex issues. In this role you will also initially be assigned as point of contact for one of Saab’s Business Areas and one of Saab’s Operational Countries. You will also attend meetings and maintain relationships with relevant authorities, such as the Swedish Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP). You will perform tasks in, for instance, the following fields of activities within export control and sanctions:
- support the organization with legal advice
- support the organization with advice relating to tenders and agreements
- perform legally mandated reporting
- train employees in the area of export control and sanctions
- interpret legislation and implement internal frameworks to ensure compliance
- support the organization when performing incident investigations
- support with expertise during audits
We work in an international environment where the main part of our suppliers and customers are foreign and Saab as a corporation is therefore subject to different countries’ legislations and authority contacts. The role also encompass participation in the Export Control Council and other duties that falls under the Corporate Export Compliance function.
Your experience and skills
We are looking for a junior legal counsel with wit and tenacity that can grow into the role and that has a strong will to commit to become an expert in export control and sanction matters.
You are required to possess the following:
- A law degree with good knowledge of the Swedish legal framework
- At least two years of experience working in a legal profession
- Excellent ability to read and write English and Swedish
- Ability to work alone or in teams
It is preferred that you also possess some or all of the following qualities and experience:
- Awareness about export controls and sanctions or international law
- Ability to provide the business with creative and compliant advice within the legal confine
- Ability to transform legal requirements to functional ways of working
- Unwavering integrity and drive to support
- Perseverance, creativity and communication skills to achieve goals
- Ability to ensure successful implementation of compliance measures
Counselling, performing training, internal investigations, audits, writing legal memos and instructions etc. are essential parts of the work tasks and therefore a lot of emphasis will be placed on personal characteristics.
The position requires travel and the role may also include work with defense secrets and therefore a security clearance needs to be approved prior to employment.
What you will be a part of
The Corporate Export Compliance function is organized in Group Legal Affairs and has the overall responsibility to ensure that the company is compliant with export control and sanction frameworks. Within this responsibility the Corporate Export Compliance function has three major areas of responsibility: firstly, to support the organization by providing operational and legal advice, secondly as a stakeholder define operational requirements derived from legal frameworks and thirdly to follow up the compliance work by performing internal audits and to ensure that Saab is compliant with applicable legal and internal frameworks.
The work includes, among other things, to produce, maintain and improve Saab common processes, routines, instructions and IT tools together with Saab’s Business Areas. One important part of that work is to identify legal requirements and implement suggested solutions as well as perform follow up activities and advise on the investigation of incidents. Another important part is to be proactive and identify areas of concern and suggest solutions to be dealt with before problems arise.
The Corporate Export Compliance function is also responsible to give legal and operational advice to the management as well as to the organization and to apply for certain types of authorizations as well as performing legally mandated reporting. Within the responsibility lies coordination with the Business Areas and Saabs legal entities worldwide. The work is led by the Head of Corporate Export Compliance who has an advisory Export Control Council with representatives from the different Business Areas within Saab.