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Your role
We are looking for a Manager of Swedish Sales within the Marketing & Sales department at Business Unit at Digital Battlespace Solutions.
As Manager of Swedish Sales, you are leading a dedicated team to secure our short to medium term sales objectives. Your responsibilities include:
- Strengthening our home market sales of the BU Digital Battlespace Solutions product portfolio over time. You will grow our strong market position by developing and refining business strategies and models tailored to your region.
- Driving revenue growth and profitability. You will be responsible for achieving the BU’s sales targets and maximizing revenue across your assigned markets.
- Developing and implementing export sales strategies. This includes defining the overall sales approach, setting targets, and creating actionable plans to meet them.
- Identifying and establishing partnerships, including offset strategies, local initiatives, or operations that support ongoing campaigns and future sales opportunities in your region.
- Leading and supporting a small and high-performing sales team, ensuring focus, alignment, and continued development of team capabilities.
The role includes close cooperation with our sales teams, Group government affairs, as well as external organisations such as SOFF, etc. with the purpose to strengthen BU Digital Battlespace Solutions market position and making our customer see Saab as their preferred supplier.
You are also expected be an active member of the Marketing & Sales Management team, contributing beyond your own area of responsibility to joint strategic initiatives and shared business challenges.
Your profile
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced leader with strong business acumen and excellent communication skills. You are a true people person with strategic and analytical skills, capable of solving complex problems while staying hands-on and focused on results when needed. You should be able to see the big picture while managing complex details in an international context. With a structured and disciplined approach, you take ownership of your responsibilities and foster an environment of openness, trust, and collaboration. Your leadership inspires commitment and drives performance.
We value the following traits and experience:
- Proven experience in a leadership role with a track record of building, motivating, and developing teams.
- Strong business and financial understanding combined with a solid technical interest, supported by relevant education.
- Proven experience in navigating the Swedish defence procurement processes and building strong relationships with key stake holders such as FMV and Swedish Armed Forces.
- Demonstrated ability to empower people both internally and externally and to create a performance-driven culture.
- The ability to organize, prioritize, delegate, and build strong cross-functional relationships within a matrix and international environment.
- Excellent communication skills in both Swedish and English; additional languages are a merit.
- Curiosity and adaptability to learn and thrive in diverse cultures and environments.
Merit:
- Experience from areas relevant to the business, such as Sales & Marketing, Strategy, Offset, or Product Development etc., is a strong advantage.
You will report to the Head of M&S and BD within Business Unit Digital Battlespace Solutions. You will be located in Solna Strand and we expect you to travel in this role, since our market is global and the organization is located in different sites.
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 a part of
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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 26,100 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.