Section Manager, Airborne Products and Integration

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Your role

We are in an expanding phase, we are five sections and are now looking for a manager to our section Airborne Products and Integration. The section consists of two SW development teams and our Product owners.

You will be involved and driving strategic work regarding competence supply and technology development. You will be responsible for around 15-20 employees where most of your employees have an educational background in Computer Science. You are expected to have a coaching leadership and the will to work with both operational and strategic issues in close collaboration with the rest of the management team in Luleå as well as other Saab sites.

The role includes ensuring that the business reaches its set goals. As Section Manager, you are responsible to run an efficient business with a high delivery capability in software development. You are also responsible that the business uses prescribed processes, methods and tools so that our development assignments can be carried out according to commitments. This applies to our customers' requirements as well as authority requirements and standards. As Section Manager, you are part of the office's management team where you are involved in driving and developing our entire capability and delivery.

Saab in Luleå:

In Luleå, we develop innovative and pioneering software solutions to complex problems which creates safety for people around the globe. We work closely together towards a common horizon and with passionate employees we are developing advanced mission management systems in both airborne and naval platforms.

Our collaborative agile teams have a clear goal - a mission and an ownership in making solutions in service to customers around the world, both today and in the future. With 90 software experts we are creating some of the most cutting-edge technologies and solutions in the defense industry. We are proud to say that our commitment is as exciting as our world-class capabilities and our location. In Luleå, Saab create code that matters. Join us and belong with a real sense of purpose.

Your profile

As a person, you have a great interest in software and are used to dealing with technical decisions. You have the ability and interest to lead, organize and develop our business. As a person, you are committed to your leadership with a desire to see, inspire and motivate your employees. You have experience in leadership and have previously been a manager, team leader, project manager or similar.

You have a technical university education, preferably with a focus on software development. As a person, you are result oriented, something that reflects your way of planning, prioritizing and acting.

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 22,000 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. Read more about us here

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.

Contact information to recruiting manager Magnus Tjärnberg: magnus.tjarnberg@saabgroup.com