IT Director, Business Unit Fighter Core Capabilities

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Your role

The IT Director is responsible for ensuring that IT and digital capabilities support the strategic objectives, growth, operational performance, product development, and competitiveness of BU Fighter Core Capabilities (FCC).

The role serves as the primary link between BU FCC and the Business Area IT organization. The IT Director owns the BU IT agenda, ensuring that business priorities are translated into clear IT demand, appropriate investments, and successful delivery of IT services and capabilities.

The role acts as a trusted advisor to the COO and BU leadership team on matters related to IT, digitalization, and business technology, ensuring that FCC's strategic priorities are reflected in the IT roadmap and investment portfolio. The position balances enterprise-wide governance and standards with the specific needs of FCC, always with a focus on business value, operational performance, and long-term competitiveness.

The IT Director is accountable for driving the BU IT agenda and ensuring alignment between business objectives and IT initiatives. This includes owning and maintaining the BU IT roadmap, managing the IT demand portfolio, and ensuring that business requirements are translated into clear priorities, business cases, and investment decisions.

The role serves as the primary interface between FCC and the Business Area IT organization, building strong partnerships and ensuring effective delivery of IT services and projects. Responsibilities include monitoring delivery performance, cost, quality, timelines, and value realization, while resolving competing priorities and managing escalations when required.

The IT Director is expected to identify opportunities where digital capabilities can improve business performance, efficiency, innovation, and competitiveness, including within areas such as AI and automation, digital engineering, data and analytics, enterprise systems, product lifecycle management, and information management.

The role also ensures that FCC operates within Saab's governance framework by managing IT-related risks, ensuring compliance with security, architecture, and regulatory requirements, and representing the business in relevant governance forums and steering committees. In addition, the IT Director assesses when local IT capabilities are required to meet business needs and ensures that such solutions remain aligned with enterprise standards and policies.

Key accountabilities include:

• Ownership of the BU IT roadmap and demand portfolio.
• IT investment planning, prioritization, and value realization.
• Business relationship management towards BA IT.
• IT service performance and delivery follow-up.
• Governance, risk management, compliance, and information security.
• Assessment and management of local IT capabilities where required.

Your profile

The successful candidate combines strong business acumen with broad IT leadership experience and a demonstrated ability to lead transformation in complex, technology-driven organizations. Experience from industries characterized by sophisticated product development, high regulatory requirements, and demanding information security environments is highly valued.

The ideal candidate:

• Understands both business priorities and IT capabilities.
• Builds strong partnerships across organizational boundaries.
• Translates business needs into actionable IT priorities.
• Combines strategic thinking with strong execution.
• Challenges constructively and drives informed decision-making.
• Understands when standardization creates value and when business needs require flexibility.
• Focuses on business outcomes, value creation, and long-term competitiveness.
• Communicates effectively with both senior business leaders and technology professionals

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 is a leading defense and security company with an enduring purpose, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by 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 defense capability of several nations. Read more about us here.

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position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.

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