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Saab Global
Installation in HQ

Head of ILS

Stockholm - Järfälla,
Sweden
Closing date: 5 April 2025

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Your role

The role is a unique opportunity to form a new department with responsibility within Integrated Logistics Support. This area is a crucial for our customer deliveries, training and system availability after delivery. This department includes four sections: ILS Sub project management, Training, Technical publications and Logistics Engineering.

The task for this new department is to build competence within the whole ILS-area and develop our ways-of-working. We are on a journey and you will be the driver to make it happen. The aim is to deliver to all projects – some phases will be more intense than others. All wins we can find to make us more efficient are welcome!

As the Head of ILS you will be a part of 9LV Design Management Team. You will work closely with the head of 9LV Hardware. Other important interfaces are the Products organization, Systems and SW.

Naval Combat Systems has grown a lot within all areas during the last years and we will continue to grow in sales. You need to find a strategic way forward and execute together with your managers and employees!

Your Profile

To thrive in this role, you are curious and forward-thinking, always seeking new and innovative ways to enhance logistics operations. Your structured approach allows you to manage complexity with precision, while your goal-oriented mindset ensures that projects are driven to successful completion.

You foster a culture of trust and openness, actively contributing to Saab’s strategic and cultural goals. With a strong business understanding and customer focus, you align logistics strategies with operational needs, balancing long-term planning with hands-on execution. Your ability to combine strategic thinking with a structured and results-driven approach makes you a key player in cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement.

Required skills:

  • MSc or experience that could count as equivalent
  • Experience in project management and/or people manager
  • Excellent communication skills in both written and spoken Swedish and English.

Desired skills:

  • Knowledge of low volume production
  • Awareness of the defence industry use of ILS

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 25,500 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.