Head of Integrated Product Support (IPS) Management for GlobalEye

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Your Role

As Head of Integrated Product Support (IPS) Management, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the long-term operational availability and sustainability of our systems within Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C). You lead a multidisciplinary team of project managers dedicated to creating a seamless support ecosystem that ensures our customers can operate their systems effectively throughout their entire life cycle.

We are on a transformation journey, and your focus as a manager will be to drive process development, digitalization, and a more integrated approach to product support. You will lead the team responsible for the IPS elements - including IPS Management, maintenance concepts, supply support and technical data - ensuring that supportability is integrated into the product from day one.

As a part of the PU AEW Support Solutions Management team, you will contribute to a collaborative environment where your strategic insight helps solve complex challenges across the department and ensures that the support organization is fully aligned with Saab’s overall business objectives.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and develop the IPS management, ensuring that all support elements meet customer operational requirements, regulatory standards, and technical specifications.
• Accelerate Operational Excellence (OPEX), securing continuous improvement in the support value chain to reduce life cycle costs and increase efficiency in logistics and maintenance.
• Build and inspire high-performing teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and accountability among IPS specialists to deliver world-class support solutions.
• Together with product management and other part of the PU AEW Support Solutions. Shape the strategic direction for Life Cycle Management (LCM), contributing to long-term planning to ensure that the product’s supportability evolves in tandem with its technical development.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders, including Product Development, Sub-contractors, and external partners, to deliver integrated solutions that guarantee maximum system readiness.

Your Profile

We are looking for a confident and forward-leaning leader with a strong business mindset and the ability to navigate a complex, technically advanced environment. You are an inclusive leader who builds trust and creates an environment where people can grow and perform at their best.

You bring:

• Proven leadership experience from a managerial role, ideally within Integrated Product Support (IPS), Integrated Logistics Support (ILS), or a similar technology-driven regulated environment.
• Experience with strategic planning and a drive to create business growth through service-oriented business models.
• Experience leading change and transformation initiatives, particularly regarding the digitalization of support services
• A technical engineering degree or a military background (considered an advantage for understanding the critical nature of operational capability and readiness).
• The ability to lead distributed teams and a willingness to travel to stay connected with operations and global customers.

To succeed in this role, you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and are comfortable engaging with stakeholders at all levels. You are fluent in both Swedish and English.

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

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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 defense capability of several nations. Read more about us here.