Program Director

SAAB AKTIEBOLAG; Linköpings kommun; On-site; SEK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

SAAB AKTIEBOLAG in Linköping, Sweden is seeking an experienced Program Director to oversee contracts within the Product Unit Defence & Enhanced capabilities. You will coordinate a diverse team to meet customer expectations and ensure profitable management of contracts.

Fluency in Swedish and English and a strong business acumen are essential for this role. You will take part in both the prospect phase and the management of projects, ensuring seamless transitions and effective communication with customers.

Join a team dedicated to making a significant impact in defense and security solutions.

Qualifications

• Ability to manage contracts with international customers.
• Fluency in Swedish and English.
• Interest in leadership and supporting teams.

Responsibilities

• Ensure contract execution meets customer and management requirements.
• Coordinate a business team to achieve set goals.
• Be the primary point of contact for customers.

Skills

Business acumen

Communicative skills

Leadership

Education

Relevant educational background in business or similar

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.

Your role

As Program Director for our contracts within Product Unit Defence & Enhanced capabilities, you will be responsible for our commitments to customers in existing and new contracts. This means that you are responsible for ensuring that the contract execution meets the customers' requirements and the management's requirements for profitability. The role involves P&L responsibility for the entire contract lifetime.

You coordinate a business team with participants from different areas of the organization with the task of achieving set goals together. Your role also means that you are the primary point of contact for the customer. Travel is therefore a natural part of the assignment.

In the work of developing our business, you will participate in the prospect phase and then take over responsibility when the business is handed over from prospect to project/program phase for new contracts/businesses.

Your profile

Business acumen is something that comes naturally and you have the ability not only to see the whole picture but also understand the importance of details. You have a relevant educational background or have worked with similar tasks before, especially with programs and contracts with international customers.

Communicative skills are one of your strongest sides as customer contact and negotiation is a central part of the role as a Program Director.

It is important that you have a genuine interest in people and leadership, to support and lead people around you to achieve jointly set goals is close to your heart.

You speakk and write Swedish and English fluently.

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 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 defence capability of several nations.