Proposal Manager

Saab; Linköpings kommun; On-site; SEK 750,000 - 950,000; Full time

Job summary

Saab AB in Sweden seeks a structured Proposal Manager to lead end-to-end proposal development for complex international defence deals. You will coordinate input from technical, commercial and legal teams, ensuring high-quality, compliant submissions that strengthen Saab's competitive position.

Fluent English and Swedish are required, and you will collaborate across borders with Bid Managers and subject matter experts to deliver compelling proposals on time, while maintaining Saab's standards.

Qualifications

• Experience with managing proposals, bids or complex business documents.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Comfortable working across organisational boundaries with diverse stakeholders.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Doer mindset with ownership from idea to execution.
• Fluent in English and Swedish.
• Curious and open to technological development, with interest in AI-based tools and methods.

Responsibilities

• Proposal Development – Lead the creation and assembly of competitive proposals, ensuring completeness, quality and consistency.
• Cross-functional Coordination – Coordinate inputs from technical, commercial, legal and financial teams to produce integrated proposals.
• Quality Assurance – Ensure proposals meet customer requirements and Saab's standards for content, format and presentation.
• Timeline Management – Manage proposal deliverables, ensuring on-time submission and professional presentation.

Skills

Proposal development

Cross-functional coordination

Quality assurance

Timeline management

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 Proposal Manager, you will play a critical role in Saab's international Marketing & Sales activities. You will lead the proposal development process for complex international defence deals, ensuring high-quality submissions that meet customer requirements and position Saab competitively.

The role is focused on managing the end-to-end proposal process, coordinating inputs from technical, commercial and business teams.

You will work closely with Bid Managers, subject matter experts and stakeholders across Saab to deliver compelling proposals that showcase Saab's capabilities and value proposition.

Your responsibility spans four main areas:

• Proposal Development – Lead the creation and assembly of competitive proposals, ensuring completeness, quality and consistency, ensuring that all contributors understand their responsibilities and deliver their input according to plan
• Cross-functional Coordination – Coordinate inputs from technical, commercial, legal and financial teams to produce integrated proposals.
• Quality Assurance – Ensure proposals meet customer requirements and follow Saab's standards for content, format and presentation.
• Timeline Management – Manage proposal deliverables, ensuring that it is complete, compliant, professionally presented and submitted on time.

Your profile

We are looking for a structured and detail-oriented professional who thrives in a complex international business environment. You enjoy bringing people together and ensuring that proposals are delivered with the highest quality and on time.

To succeed in this role, we see that you:

• Have experience of managing proposals, bids or complex business documents.
• Have strong collaborative and communication skills.
• Are comfortable working across organisational boundaries and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Have excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Have a "doer" mindset and take ownership from idea to execution.
• Are fluent in English and Swedish.
• Have curiosity and openness to technological development, with an interest in AI-based tools and methods.
• Aspirational mindset with potential to grow into roles as Bid Manager, Bid Center Manager or other roles in sales.

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 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

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