Future Business Lead

SAAB; Solna kommun; On-site; SEK 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Saab is seeking a Future Business Model Lead to shape the group’s digital strategy and accelerate new business models across Saab’s portfolio. You will drive testing and evolution of subscription/SaaS/PaaS models with selected Business Units and support Group Functions in scaling adoption.

You will collaborate with customers to co-create value and lead a senior matrixed team at the group level. The role requires executive-level communication, strong stakeholder engagement, and the ability to

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience, including a minimum of 4 years driving digital transformation including business model transformation.
• Proven experience in designing, implementing and evolving business models to enable continuous value delivery (e.g. subscription based models, SaaS and PaaS models).
• Industry experience in engineered products and/or the defense sector is highly desirable.
• Strong ability to architect and align transformation roadmaps that tie into the overarching company strategy with a software-enabled product portfolio.
• Skilled in workshop facilitation and managing cross-functional teams towards common objectives with clear outcomes.
• Adept at identifying capability gaps, prioritisation logic, and transformation governance models.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Lead a senior cross-Saab team at the group level to evolve the business model and share learnings broadly in Saab.
• Drive and support transformation activities to accelerate Saab’s journey towards software-defined products.
• Interface with Saab’s customers to co-create and implement new business models.
• Shape and oversee transformation activities in Sales, Finance, and Legal to scale adoption.
• Collaborate with leadership, engineering, product and commercial teams to align roadmaps with company strategy.

Skills

Leadership alignment

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

English fluency

Job description

Do you want to help shape Saab’s journey to differentiate its product portfolio through software and AI? Our new Group Digitalisation function is working across all business areas to drive this strategic transformation. We are now looking for a Future Business Model Lead to join the Digital Strategy & Acceleration team within Group Digitalisation and help shape new business models across Saab. Ready to get involved? We need the best talent to help keep people and societies safe in an increasingly digital world.

Your role

You will be part of a team operating at the group level across the full product portfolio at Saab, to further the development of Saab's overarching digital strategy, supporting its execution to ensure the necessary direction, pace, and coordination across various initiatives and teams.

You will drive and support a range of transformation activities all initiated to accelerate Saab’s journey towards becoming software defined across the product portfolio. You will specifically drive the work of testing and evolving new business models together with selected Business Units and support relevant Group Functions in shaping their journeys to enable adoption of such models at scale. You will also interface with Saab’s customers as part of co-creating and implementing new business models.

The work will include leading a senior cross-Saab team at the group level to evolve the business model and share learnings broadly in Saab in effective ways. It will also include shaping and overseeing transformation activities required in Group Functions (e.g. Sales, Finance, Legal) to accelerate and scale adoption and thus impact of the new business models.

Your profile

We’re looking for someone with the ability to engage confidently across leadership, engineering, product and commercial teams. You know how to build and maintain alignment across dispersed stakeholders, managing complexity without losing clarity or momentum. Your written and verbal communication is excellent, particularly in settings involving executive-level steering groups. With a structured, systems-oriented mindset and a pragmatic approach to prioritisation, you bring focus and direction where it’s most needed. You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and skilled at leading through influence in a matrixed environment.

Requirements:

• At least 8 years of experience, including a minimum of 4 years driving digital transformation including business model transformation - either within a digitally mature industrial company with autonomous Business Areas, or as a consultant serving such organisations.
• Proven experience in designing, implementing and evolving business models to enable continuous value delivery (e.g. subscription based models, SaaS and PaaS models).
• Industry experience in engineered products and/or the defense sector is highly desirable.
• Strong ability to architect and align transformation roadmaps that tie into the overarching company strategy with a software-enabled product portfolio.
• Skilled in workshop facilitation and managing cross-functional teams towards common objectives with clear outcomes.
• Adept at identifying capability gaps, prioritisation logic, and transformation governance models.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

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 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.

Regardless of whether you value cutting edge technology, creativity or an innovative environment, everyone at Saab contributes to keeping people and society safe.