Operations Planning & Supply Chain Director, Surveillance

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.This is an exciting and demanding role and a key position in Saab's growth journey.

Saab's business area Surveillance is looking for a driven and communicative Operations Planning & Supply Chain Director to lead our journey towards effective operations planning and control. Our commitment to developing and delivering groundbreaking solutions requires a robust and agile operations framework. That's where you come in.

Your role

BA Surveillance is Saab's largest, and one of the two most rapidly growing, business areas. On this growth trajectory, effective operations planning and control is instrumental to guide business decisions, optimize capacity and drive operational efficiency across the supply chain for our collective product lines. We are therefore searching for a visionary and experienced Operations Planning & Supply Chain Director to join our team.

The role will lead a function fostering a culture of continuous improvement, accountable to establish effective performance metrics and analytics, planning methodologies and digital support to optimize every stage of our supply chain. In this role, you are expected to leverage data-driven insights and collaborate with all supply functions across Surveillance globally to ensure target alignment, capacity optimization and operational efficiency. Overall delivery performance and cutting lead times are key enablers for our success and thus important drivers for the function.

In this critical role, you will:

* Lead and develop a high-performing operations planning and supply chain team, cultivating a culture of excellence and collaboration.
* Develop and implement robust and effective strategies for Sales & Operations Planning, interconnecting the full extent of our planning ecosystem.
* Consolidate demand and lead supply planning to ensure appropriate action is taken for capacity and efficiency for our rapidly growing business.
* Build and manage strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business operations.
* Contribute to the strategic direction of the company by identifying and leveraging operational capabilities and operational efficiency to support growth and innovation.

The Planning & Supply Chain Director reports directly to the BA Chief Operating Officer.

Your profile

To fit in this role, you must be a highly motivated, skilled and communicative supply chain leader. You demonstrate strategic height, meaning you can connect the overall business plan objectives to challenges in the short to medium term. You are results-oriented measuring your own success in the impact you make in identifying and resolving bottlenecks across the business operations. You have a proven track record as manager and transformation leader in planning or supply chain, expressing integrity in your position while being a true leader.

Required skills:

* Extensive experience in operations planning or supply chain management, including operations performance management.

* Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to lead and motivate your own team as well as stakeholders across operations.
* A passion for driving continuous improvement and optimizing complex systems.

* Proven track record of effectively leading transformations and implementing new ways of working for rapid impact.
* Significant management experience.
* Master degree in relevant field, or equivalent experience

Desired skills:

* Experience from matrix organisations in an industrial context, with multiple product lines and a project-centric business execution model

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

The Planning & Supply Chain Director is part of the COO Management Team at Business Area Surveillance, reporting directly to the BA Chief Operating Officer. Primary location can be any of our major sites, preferably Stockholm or Göteborg.

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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