Security Manager

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 BU Security Manager you will work in an international environment where advanced security threats are part of the everyday business alongside complex IT environments and projects with high business impact.

In your role you will be responsible for analyzing and supporting Business Units in their risk mitigations and the task of identifying and prevent security threats of different nature. You will also support the business by handling external and internal security demands, and be a key player in handling incidents and raising security awareness. Security compliance will be an important part of your work.

Your main tasks will be:

* Provide expertise and support in tender processes and support legal and contractual management within the security area
* Direct, coordinate and control security management and ensure security risk conscious decision making throughout appointed unit/units
* Ensure that strategic objectives and security targets are put into practice and operations
* Lead and/or support the implementation of efficient security risk management practices, including security controls, in day-to day business and operations

The position is located primarily in Huskvarna. Business trips, mainly in Sweden but also internationally, is occurring.

Your profile

Personal qualities will be of great importance in this role, and it is paramount to be trustworthy with strong ethics and personal integrity. An understanding of the need for balanced security in a business-driven environment is essential.

A high analytical mindset and solid problem-solving skills are required, along with a proactive approach and a strong sense of initiative and drive. The ability to build and maintain networks and good relationships, both within and outside the organization, is also highly valued.

Required skills:

* A university degree or equivalent competence acquired through work life experience in security risk management, crisis management and/or similar
* Several years of experience from working with security risk management, crisis management and/or similar
* Good communication skills in Swedish and English, verbal and written.

Desired skills:

* Experience from working with Swedish protective security
* Experience from working with incident handling and/or incident investigations

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.

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement. We welcome your application in both English and Swedish.

What you will be a 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 23,000 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.