Head of IT digital transformation office
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · Product Management
In short
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and engage employees and leaders within the IT Digital Transformation Office.
- Drive the execution of strategic transformation programmes and projects across Saab in partnership with business and technology owners.
- Lead Saab’s shared PMO capability, establishing common practices for execution follow-up and reporting.
- Manage dependencies across programmes and projects and drive resolution of issues.
- Provide senior management with a consolidated view of programme and project progress, risks, dependencies, and decisions required.
- Ensure transformation delivery aligns with enterprise architecture direction and applicable governance and security requirements.
- Establish common approaches to transformation planning, follow-up, and benefit realisation.
- Strengthen Saab's transformation capabilities, ways of working, and change management practices.
- Travel to meet with teams and stakeholders.
Requirements
- Academic degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong people leadership and talent development skills.
- Extensive experience leading large-scale technology-enabled transformation in complex organisations.
- A strong track record of delivering strategic programmes and measurable business outcomes.
- Experience leading or developing PMO programme and project delivery capabilities.
- Strong understanding of programme, project and portfolio execution, delivery assurance, dependency management and benefits realisation.
- Experience bringing together business, architecture and delivery teams to execute complex change.
- Experience advising and influencing senior leaders in complex organisations.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience driving large-scale transformation, strategic change or organisational development initiatives.
- Experience from large, complex and global organisations.
- Fluency in both Swedish and English, both written and spoken.
- Ability to pass a security vetting.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience from the defence industry or other highly regulated and security-sensitive industries is considered an advantage.
- Additional obligations regarding citizenship may apply for positions requiring security clearance.
Benefits
- A leadership role at the heart of Saab’s digital transformation.
- A strategically important area with a Saab-wide mandate.
- Opportunity to shape the future of Saab IT.
- Exciting journey of growth and transformation.
- Positioning the organisation for future success.
- Part of the CIO Office management team.
- Work closely with business and technology leaders across Saab.
- Possibility for alternative locations within Sweden.
Skills
About Saab
As a leading defence and security company, we offer solutions that range from the depths of the oceans to high in the sky, on land and in cyberspace, to keep people and society safe. Empowered by our 22,000 talented people, we constantly push the boundaries of technology to create a safer, more sustainable and more equitable world. We design, manufacture and maintain advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. We are headquartered in Sweden and have major operations all over the world and are part of the domestic defence capability of several…
Company
SaabJob Posted
4 days ago
Expires
in 2 weeks
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
Solna, Sweden
Gothenburg, Sweden
Jönköping, Sweden
Karlskrona, Sweden
Linköping, Sweden
Malmö, Sweden
Stockholm, Sweden
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