Marketing Associate

Your role:

We are seeking an energetic, talented and creative Marketing Associate with an artistic and aesthetical talent that will support the marketing efforts of Gripen on the global market.

In your role, you will contribute with creative ways to the Gripen marketing team.

With this exciting product, we are searching a creative force that can help provide modern content for our global marketing efforts.

As Marketing Associate, your assignments are primarily reported to the Marketing and Sales management.

Main assignment is to help establish and drive the marketing plan for Gripen activities globally, i.e.:

* Produce new marketing tools & material
* Help administer and participate in marketing activities and projects
* Turn ideas into visual content
* Based on Saab design guidelines produce layouts, presentations and be the department's focal point for skills in visual input to achieve the desired look and feel
* Contribute to the Gripen sales by supporting the Gripen campaign prospect teams with graphical artwork and image generation including layouts and materials for use in executive document, proposals, product descriptions etc.
* Generally support Marketing & Sales department with visual, layout and creative competence
* Perform analysis of data and generate images that support the data, e.g. to visualise Gripen capabilities



Some travelling is to be expected, but the majority of the job is in Linköping.

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



Your profile:

Your background/education could be from marketing, graphics, or marketing communications. You could also have an aesthetical education from high school and a few years of experience and with an ambition to work with Marketing.

You are creative, energetic, flexible and with an openness and willingness to learn.

You like taking responsibility, have an open personality and a positive approach.

You enjoy working closely with people in different teams well as working independently.

You have very good knowledge of Swedish and English in both written and spoken language. You need to have very good knowledge in MS PowerPoint and preferably experience from working with InDesign and Photoshop or other related graphical packages.



What you will be a part of:

Aeronautics, a Business Area of Saab, offers advanced airborne systems, related subsystems, unmanned aerial systems, aerostructures and services to defence customers and commercial aerospace industries worldwide.

You will belong to the Marketing department, which is organised within Marketing and Sales. Marketing and Sales is tasked to market and sell the Gripen fighter aircraft system on the international arena and is responsible for providing the entire Business Area with Marketing resources and expertise.

We are working in Linköping, in the hub for global marketing and sales of Gripen. We are a dedicated and goal-oriented team, that believe in communication and empowerment. To have good coverage on the world market, we work in close cooperation with our international offices. Our department, Marketing and Sales, focuses on selling Gripen to new customers while also strengthening the Gripen brand. You will be a part of our Marketing team, which supports the department with marketing and intelligence expertise, sales outlook, market strategies, coordination of global initiatives and management of marketing projects. A Marketing Associate represents the department in Gripen marketing matters in several different contexts.