Defence Project Manager

Om jobbet

Scania is undergoing a transformation from being a leading supplier of trucks, buses, and engines to providing complete and sustainable transport solutions. Together with TRATON and our sister brands MAN, Volkswagen Truck & Bus, and International, we are working to shape the future of mobility with innovative and environmentally conscious solutions.

Our values - customer first, respect, team spirit, responsibility, and elimination of waste - are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we are at the forefront of creating a sustainable future.

Role Summary

The Defence Project Office is now looking for dedicated new team members to strengthen our project organisation!

As a Defence Project Manager, you will lead development or business projects depending on your background, experience, and interests. You will support and coach the project members to achieve agreed deliveries and goals, always with customer in focus. You are passionate about cross-functional collaboration and know how to create structure, alignment, and progress in complex project environments. By working closely with the team and stakeholders, you ensure that the project delivers the right activities on time, at the right quality and cost.

Continuous improvement is a natural part of our business. With a proactive approach, you and your teams identify risks early, act on them, and contribute to developing our way of working. The organisation's most important resource is its people. Through close collaboration with each team member, you help create the conditions for an interesting, challenging, and rewarding project journey. An important success factor is your ability to build team spirit and create high-performing teams.

Continuous improvement work is a natural part of our business, and with a proactive approach, you and your teams identify risks early and act on them.

The organization's most important resource is the individuals. Through a close collaboration with each team member, you together create a prerequisite for an interesting and challenging journey. An important success factor is that you master the ability to achieve a good team spirit and thereby create high-performing teams.

Job Responsibilities

As a Defence Project Manager, you will lead and oversee defence projects from early phases to industrialization. You will provide strategic leadership and guidance in complex environments, ensuring successful project outcomes.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Project Leadership: Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. You are responsible for defining, maintaining, and ensuring compliance with key project steering documents and directives.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, partners, and teams, ensuring alignment on common priorities and outcomes.
• Team Management: Coordinate, coach and support project participants, fostering collaboration and accountability, contributing to a strong and learning project culture.
• Budget & Resource Management: Oversee project budgets, resource allocation, and financial follow-up to ensure efficient delivery.
• Risk Management: Identify risks that could affect timelines, workload, quality or cost. You discuss potential impacts with the team and ensure that mitigation plans are in place.

Who You Are

To succeed in this role, you are a committed and driven Project Manager who enjoys leading complex initiatives through others. You combine strategic perspective with operational mindset and know how to create progress together with people.

With clear and inclusive leadership, you engage stakeholders and guide the team towards agreed objectives, scope, and deliveries. You provide structure and direction while building commitment and collaboration, even in demanding environments. You are equally comfortable aligning on strategic direction with senior stakeholders as you are supporting the team in day-to-day execution.

We also believe you:

• Have an Master's degree, preferably in Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience from similar professional work
• Are a good listener and team player who is unpretentious, flexible and structured
• Can communicate well in English and enjoy working with different people and perspectives
• Have proven leadership experience

It is would be considered meritorious if you have knowledge of Scania's organization, working methods and processes.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds - your unique experience and perspectives is valuable to us.

This Is Us

The Defence Project Office is organised into two teams consisting of around 25 people: Delta and Echo. Delta primarily delivers development projects, while Echo is responsible for business projects. However, resources are flexibly allocated across both teams depending on portfolio needs, and you may therefore work with both types of projects.

The organisation includes both employees and consultants, bringing a broad mix of genders, ages, backgrounds, and experiences that strengthens our performance and collaboration. Knowledge sharing and cross-team cooperation are well-established ways of working.

The Defence project portfolio spans tender, business, and development projects delivered to multiple defence forces. Growing demand for on-road and off-road defence vehicles is driving an increase in activity and requires strengthened capacity and capability within these project types.

Scania offers

We offer a dynamic, flexible workplace with hybrid work options, including Scania Sergel and Midway hubs. With a structured development plan and courses, Scania supports your career growth both locally and internationally.

Benefits include training at our Health Center Gröndal or wellness allowance, result bonus, flexible hours, and company car leasing. Scania also hosts events for employees and their families, and Stockholm residents enjoy direct access to Södertälje via Scania Job express buses.

Application

Your application should include a CV and any relevant certificates. We welcome all applicants and strive for diversity in our recruitment processes.

Apply as soon as possible, no later than2026-05-17. Screening will take place on an ongoing basis during the application period. Logical and personality tests may be used as part of the selection process, and a background check will be required for this role.

If you have questions or would like more information, please contact:
Therése Holm, Head of Defence Project Office Delta at therese.holm@scania.com or
Ragnwald Tengkvist, Head of Defence Project Office Echo, at ragnwald.tengkvist@scania.com


We look forward to your application!
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Requisition ID: 28304

Number of Openings: 1.0

Part-time / Full-time: Full-time

Permanent / Temporary: Permanent

Country/Region: SE

Location(s):
Södertälje, SE, 151 38

Required Travel: 0-25%

Workplace: Hybrid