Chief Information Security Officer

Saab serves the global market with world-leading products, services and solutions from military defence to civil security. With operations on every continent, Saab continuously develops, adapts and improves new technology to meet customers' changing needs.

Saab sets a high standard when it comes to security and is now recruiting a Chief Information Security Officer

Your role

Do you want to take the opportunity to work with a company with long history of keeping people and society safe?

Information Security is one of the cornerstones for Security within Saab. Within Group Security the Information Security function supports and setts the adequate information security baseline.

As Saab's Chief Information Security Officer you will be in charge of providing line management leadership and strategic direction within Information security. The main responsibility is to establish and maintain a well-defined security governance and information security framework across Saab group, and provide expert support to operations and its management. The information security function also provides competence for the overall security governance structure and security audits.

The world is changing rapidly and therefore we need to adapt and be proactive in our work to give the support to business as needed.

You will report to Saabs Chief Security Officer and you will be line manager for a team of highly skilled security specialists. It is a requirement that you have worked as a line manager before with good references.

The main tasks are:

* Line manager for the Information Security team at Group Security
* Functional leader for information security at Saab Group
* Develop, implement and maintain processes, methods and tools for information security
* Cooperate closely with the security function at large as well as other relevant functions such as Group IT and our business operations
* You will represent Group Security in a number of forums at Saab
* We are a global company, we work in an international context, which will require national and international travelling

Your profile

To take on the challenge as CISO at Saab you are a socially skilled person who has an easy way of making contacts and to cooperate inside and ouside the company. You are comfortable in taking decisions and have a high degree of integrity. You take pride in your interest for the area of information security and you keep yourself informed about changes in legistation or requirements within your area of responsibility.

In your previous employments you have probably implemented information security management systems and internal requirements as well as planned and performed audit and revision. You have performed trainings within the area of information security and you have knowledge of modern information security processes for IT with zero trust, secure cloud technology etc.

You know best practice for cyber- and IT security as well as basic knowledge of IT architecture and you are well acquainted with today's and the future needs for information technology. You have good knowledge of the threats posed to a company like Saab.

You have a clear vision and strategy of what a company needs with regard to information security. It is highly desirable that you are working as CISO today, and therefore know the ground fundaments of the role.

Required skills:

* University degree or similar education level in software engineering, information security, risk management, computer science, etc.
* More than 10 years of work experience
* More than 5 years experience from working with Information security

* Leadership/management experience

* As we operate in a highly regulated environment, it is required that you have experience of working with security requirements, preferably both Swedish protective security requirements and international standards, such as ISO 27001 and NIST SP 800
* Trustworthy with high standards of ethics and personal integrity and willing to accept a background screening

Desired skills:

* Working experience as CISO is highly desired
* Certification within the area of Information Security CIAO, CISM, CISSP etc.
* IT-architecture and IT-Security
* Experience of working with Swedish information security requirement

This position requires that you will be approved in a security screening in accordance with the Swedish Protective Security Act. 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

You will join a highly professional security function with personnel of different backgrounds and competences. We work mainly within the areas of physical security, information security and personnel security, including travel security. You will have an arena to develop both the information security work and also be a vital part of developing the whole function. You will work closely with the Security teams all over Saab as well as many other functions including Group IT. The personnel at Group Security are working from mainly from Stockholm or Linköping and you will probably get the best possible work environment to do so as well.

Saab Group



If you aspire to help create and innovate whilst developing yourself in a challenging team setting, Saab may well have the perfect conditions for you to grow. We pride ourselves on a nurturing environment, where everyone is different yet we share the same goal - to help protect people.