Program Director
SAAB AktiebolagSammanfattning
As Program Director at Saab, you will oversee contract execution within the Product Unit Defence & Enhanced capabilities, ensuring customer and management requirements are met while managing P&L responsibilities. This role involves coordinating a diverse business team and serving as the primary customer contact, with travel being a key component. You will also engage in business development from the prospect phase to project handover. Fluency in Swedish and English is required, along with a keenJobbet i korthet
Anställningstyp
tillsvidareanstallning
Arbetstid
heltid
Förmåner
Opportunity to influence significant innovations in defence and security.Collaborative and tech-savvy work environment.Support for personal and professional growth.Engagement in meaningful work that contributes to societal safety.
Ansök senast: 2026-07-29
Publicerad: 2026-07-01
Beskrivning
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 Program Director for our contracts within Product Unit Defence & Enhanced capabilities, you will be responsible for our commitments to customers in existing and new contracts. This means that you are responsible for ensuring that the contract execution meets the customers' requirements and the management's requirements for profitability. The role involves P&L responsibility for the entire contract lifetime.
You coordinate a business team with participants from different areas of the organization with the task of achieving set goals together. Your role also means that you are the primary point of contact for the customer. Travel is therefore a natural part of the assignment.
In the work of developing our business, you will participate in the prospect phase and then take over responsibility when the business is handed over from prospect to project/program phase for new contracts/businesses.
Your profile
Business acumen is something that comes naturally and you have the ability not only to see the whole picture but also understand the importance of details. You have a relevant educational background or have worked with similar tasks before, especially with programs and contracts with international customers.
Communicative skills are one of your strongest sides as customer contact and negotiation is a central part of the role as a Program Director.
It is important that you have a genuine interest in people and leadership, to support and lead people around you to achieve jointly set goals is close to your heart.
You speakk and write Swedish and English fluently.
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 28.000 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.
Your role
As Program Director for our contracts within Product Unit Defence & Enhanced capabilities, you will be responsible for our commitments to customers in existing and new contracts. This means that you are responsible for ensuring that the contract execution meets the customers' requirements and the management's requirements for profitability. The role involves P&L responsibility for the entire contract lifetime.
You coordinate a business team with participants from different areas of the organization with the task of achieving set goals together. Your role also means that you are the primary point of contact for the customer. Travel is therefore a natural part of the assignment.
In the work of developing our business, you will participate in the prospect phase and then take over responsibility when the business is handed over from prospect to project/program phase for new contracts/businesses.
Your profile
Business acumen is something that comes naturally and you have the ability not only to see the whole picture but also understand the importance of details. You have a relevant educational background or have worked with similar tasks before, especially with programs and contracts with international customers.
Communicative skills are one of your strongest sides as customer contact and negotiation is a central part of the role as a Program Director.
It is important that you have a genuine interest in people and leadership, to support and lead people around you to achieve jointly set goals is close to your heart.
You speakk and write Swedish and English fluently.
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 28.000 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.
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Program Director
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