Manager of Contract & Bid Office, Product Unit Fighter Radar

Do you imagine a career that constantly stretches your capabilities and offers you an opportunity to work with the technologies of the future? We offer an exciting opportunity to join a global company with a mission to make our society safer!

Your role

Are you our next Head of Contract and Bid Office? You will be a part of PU Fighter Radar and its management team. You will report to the Head of Product Unit Fighter Radar.

As manager you will have an important role within this PU:

• To lead the team responsible for customer contracts, larger programs and new customer offers
• To participate and coach in contract, program and customer management
• To participate in business development and building and maintaining customer relationships
• Have a driving role in our product unit’s financials and forecasting
• To lead the operations bid activities together with Marketing & Sales and supporting Winning business activities
• To contribute to developing our project management processes, methods, tools and excellence

All with the main purpose of secure good delivery precision, profitability, cash flow, quality and customer satisfaction.
 

Business Unit Fighter Core Capabilities is a business unit within Saab Surveillance and has around 2000 employees. The Business Unit provides airborne sensors, avionics and self-protection solutions and has a strong presence in the global defense and security markets.

The Product Unit Fighter Radar is responsible for the business of Fighter Radar, Weapon Data Link and Missile Electronics. Furthermore, we are responsible for technical development within Fire Control Radars and Electronic Counter Measure systems and drive substantial R&D programs with the latest sensor technology. Product Unit Fighter Radar has around 160 employees.

For this role, we are looking for someone who likes to develop and challenging themselves as well as its team members. To be successful in this position you need to have the ability to motivate and engage others but also be able to organize, prioritize and take decisions to improve performance and profitability.

 We also assume that you have:

• Structured and performance driven ways of working and customer focus
• Strong business and financial interest and understanding
• Skills to combine strategic thinking with operational goals and actions
• Understanding of our contract-, project- and company processes and how to develop and use them
• Understanding of the contracts and projects way through the organization
• Have technical interest and understanding to lead with confidence

Last but not least, you have the ability to create a collaborative work environment with transparency, respect and trust among your employees. You support Surveillance overall culture program “Together as One”.

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 a part of

Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,100 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