Manager Product Management, PU EW

SAAB AKTIEBOLAG; Solna kommun; On-site; SEK 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Saab AB in Sweden seeks a Manager for Product Management within Product Unit EW to lead a team of Product Managers and Technical Product Managers, owning strategy, roadmap and lifecycle. You will drive alignment across functions, manage configurations, and collaborate with marketing and sales to win business while ensuring sustainment of existing systems.

This role includes national and international travel.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership experience, including personnel and budget responsibility.
• Solid background in product management within advanced or high-tech environments.
• Good understanding of the Electronic Warfare domain.
• Proven ability to drive both product and business development.
• Strong analytical and strategic capabilities with excellent communication skills.
• Fluent in both written and spoken English and Swedish.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Product Managers and Technical Product Managers.
• Ensure a clear product strategy, roadmap and lifecycle management across the EW portfolio.
• Ensure effective management of product configurations (legacy, current and future), balancing performance, cost and profitability.
• Support Winning Business by contributing to marketing and sales campaigns with strong product direction.
• Support Execute Business by ensuring alignment between product strategy and development planning.
• Drive structured ways of working within product management and across interfaces.
• Translate market, customer and operational insights into clear product priorities and decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Product management

Electronic Warfare

Business development

Analytical Skills

Communication skills

EN/SE bilingual

Job description

Want to influence the bigger picture? At Saab, you can realise amazing innovations that keep people and societies safe. Together, we can truly make an impact - and your part matters.

Role Overview

As Manager for Product Management, you will lead the Product Management function within Product Unit EW, managing a team of Product Managers (PMs) and Technical Product Managers (TPMs). The Product Unit is responsible for the products dispensers, ground support systems, radar warner system to Tornado, standoff Jamming and future products for compact Arexis and Stand of Jamming.

You will hold the overall responsibility for the product family from a product perspective - ensuring that our offerings remain competitive, profitable and aligned with future customer needs and operational demands.

In this role, you combine people leadership with active product ownership, driving strategy, roadmap and lifecycle management while creating the conditions for your team to succeed.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Product Managers and Technical Product Managers
• Ensure a clear product strategy, roadmap and lifecycle management across the EW portfolio
• Ensure effective management of product configurations (legacy, current and future), balancing performance, cost and profitability
• Support Winning Business by contributing to marketing and sales campaigns with strong product direction
• Support Execute Business by ensuring alignment between product strategy and development planning
• Drive structured ways of working within product management and across interfaces
• Translate market, customer and operational insights into clear product priorities and decisions

Focus areas

• Strengthening the product organization and its ways of working
• Driving product roadmaps and long-term development initiatives
• Supporting ongoing marketing and sales campaigns
• Ensuring sustainment and evolution of existing systems

The role includes national and international travel.

Profile

We're looking for a line manager with a strong and structured product mindset. You combine strategic thinking with the ability to stay close to product decisions and support your team in navigating complexity. You are confident, communicative and skilled at aligning stakeholders across functions, organizations and cultures.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership experience, including personnel and budget responsibility
• Solid background in product management within advanced or high-tech environments
• Good understanding of the Electronic Warfare domain
• Proven ability to drive both product and business development
• Strong analytical and strategic capabilitiesExcellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical experts and senior stakeholders
• Fluent in both written and spoken English and Swedish.

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

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