Head of BI & Digital Tools | Data-Driven Transformation

Saab; Solna kommun; On-site; SEK 1,200,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Saab in Stockholm is seeking a dynamic Manager, BI & Digital Tools to lead a high‑performing team focused on business intelligence, automation and ML. You will translate data into KPIs, insights and decision support for Operations Stockholm and adjacent units, driving the digital tools strategy and value realization.

You will coach leaders, shape governance, and partner with cross‑functional stakeholders to deliver data‑driven improvements while upholding Saab's values and safety requirements.

Qualifications

• Master of Science in Engineering or equivalent education and/or relevant professional experience.
• Strong strategic thinking with ability to translate strategy into action.
• Proven leadership of teams and cross-functional groups driving transformation.

Responsibilities

• Lead BI & Digital Tools team to high performance and engaged execution.
• Transform data into KPIs, insights and decision support across the business.
• Develop, own and execute the data governance roadmap.
• Translate the Operational Excellence roadmap into actionable BI roadmaps and priorities.
• Collaborate with sister sections to integrate data and digital solutions into business initiatives.
• Coach and develop your team to handle increasingly complex challenges.
• Drive continuous improvement and value-based leadership across your area.
• Act as transformation and change leader in a dynamic environment.
• Build relationships with stakeholders and translate Saab strategies into measurable targets.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Communication

BI/Automation/ML leadership

Business acumen

Governance

Swedish & English

Education

Master of Science in Engineering

Job description

Passionate about making ideas a reality? Join our welcoming world of tech and let your ideas soar.

Your role

Passionate about making ideas a reality? Join our welcoming world of tech and let your ideas soar.

Your role

Operational Excellence is a newly formed department consisting of three sections, one of which is BI & Digital Tools. You will be part of the Operational Excellence FCC Leadership Team and will play a key role in shaping the new department together with your fellow managers.

As Manager, BI & Digital Tools, you will lead a high-performing team specializing in business intelligence, automation, and machine learning. The team consists of talented professionals who design and develop digital tools, methods, dashboards, reports, and predictive models. Its mission is to strengthen decision-making and transform the way we work by leveraging data, developing innovative digital solutions, and ensuring their successful implementation and continuous improvement.

Your primary focus will be the managers and colleagues within Operations Stockholm, but you will also work closely with departments within Surveillance business units Fighter Core Capabilities as well as Business Area Surveillance Operational Excellence department.

Your responsibilities in short:

• Manage the BI & Digital Tools team, ensuring high performance, engagement, and efficient ways of working.
• Drive the transformation towards a more data-driven organization by translating data into meaningful KPIs, insights, and decision support across the business.
• Develop, own, and execute the organization's data governance roadmap.
• Translate the Operational Excellence roadmap and strategic goals into actionable roadmaps and priorities for BI & Digital Tools.
• Partner and collaborate with the sister sections within Operational Excellence to ensure data and digital solutions are integral parts of business initiatives.
• Coach and develop your team, building capabilities and enabling employees to take on increasingly complex challenges.
• Empower your employees through value-based leadership.
• Develop efficient ways of working, implement best practices, and drive continuous improvement within your area.
• Act as a transformation and change leader, inspiring confidence and engagement in an evolving and agile business environment.
• Build, maintain and develop relations with all relevant stakeholders.
• Translating Saab, Surveillance and BU strategies into clear and well-communicated targets for your stakeholders
• Leading according to Saab´s organizational values.
• Full responsibility for results within your area, which includes safety and health, quality, delivery capacity, efficiency and finance.

Your profile

We are looking for a positive, curious, and self-driven leader who brings energy, structure, and a strategic mindset to create a collaborative and high-performing environment. You are a team player who actively contributes to shared objectives and business success.

You are an inspiring and inclusive leader with the ability to recognize and develop each team member's strengths and potential. Through clear communication, strong values, and direction, you create commitment and successfully lead people through change. You thrive in transformation and complexity, combining strategic thinking with a pragmatic, hands-on approach to turn plans into action and deliver results. You are passionate about using data to improve ways of working, increase efficiency, and drive business performance. With an agile, innovative, and collaborative mindset, you challenge the status quo, navigate changing priorities, and build a culture of continuous improvement focused on delivering value with speed and quality.

Required skills:

• Master of Science in Engineering or equivalent education and/or relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated ability to combine strategic thinking with operational execution.
• Proven ability and genuine interest in leading, developing, and challenging organizations, management teams, and employees.
• Strong business acumen and customer focus.
• Pragmatic and action-oriented, with the ability to deliver business value through the right balance of structure, governance, and speed.
• Minimum two years' formal or informal leadership experience within a relevant area across Business intelligence, automation, Machine learning or similar.
• Strong communication skills and experience in leading transformation and change.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 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.

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.

What you will be a 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 defense and security company with an enduring purpose, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 28,000 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 defense capability of several nations. Read more about us here

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