Head of Product Unit

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Your role

Lead the charge in shaping the future of coastal & air defense. As Head of Coastal & Air Defense, you will own one of our most critical growth domains – delivering integrated solutions for counter-UAS, air defense, and coastal protection. This is a senior leadership role with P&L ownership, customer visibility, and the mandate to drive capability development in one of the fastest-evolving mission areas.

Key Responsibilities:

• Shape and deliver C-UAS solutions – integrate sensors, effectors, C2, and soft/hard-kill options into scalable, platform-first architectures
• Oversee program delivery for active contracts, ensuring targets for schedule, budget, quality, and gross margin are met.
• Customer point of contact for coastal & air defense missions, fostering trusted relationships.
• Drive domain capability development – working closely with core development to introduce next-generation technologies
• Build, lead, develop and scale a high-performing team with the right competences for today and tomorrow.
• Own the unit's budget, forecasts, and financial performance.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and represent the unit across Saab and the defense sector

Your Profile

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced leader with excellent communication skills who is also a people's person. You are strategic and analytical, with a strong ability to solve complex problems while also being hands-on and results-oriented when needed. With a structured and disciplined approach, you take ownership of your responsibilities and cultivate an environment of openness and trust. Your leadership fosters collaboration, inspiring those around you to achieve greatness. You are a confident leader with a proven track record of building and motivating teams, and you have a communicative leadership style that builds trust internally and externally.

To succeed in this role, we believe you have:

• Proven leadership in multi-disciplinary teams delivering complex defense systems (C4I preferred).
• Familiarity with counter-UAS technologies and evolving operational requirements
• Experience managing P&L, budgets, and large-scale program delivery.
• Strong operational focus with financial accountability.
• Excellent communicator and stakeholder manager (Swedish & English).
• Skilled in people leadership, resource planning, and competence development.
• A keen interest in learning new things and adapting to different environments and cultures.
• Experience managing product roadmaps and portfolio governance.

We value not only your skills and experience, but also place great importance on your personal qualities. To us, it is essential that you contribute to a positive working environment, enjoy collaborating with others, and have an attitude that supports both the team's and the organisation's development.

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

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 26,000 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.