Expansion & Growth Lead

2 days ago


Odisha, India Saab Full time ₹ 6,00,000 - ₹ 12,00,000 per year

Want to influence the bigger picture? At Saab, you can realise amazing innovations that keep people and societies safe. Together, we can truly make an impact – and your part matters.

Your role

Help shape the future of a growing C5ISR business by leading our expansion- both in people and locations. As Expansion & Growth Lead, you will collaborate with senior leadership to plan and deliver a five-year journey to dramatically increase our headcount, open new sites, and build the capabilities we need to win tomorrow's opportunities. The role combines strategic workforce planning with hands-on delivery, offering the chance to make a visible impact on how and where our business grows.

Your key responsibilities include:

  • Lead the Business Unit's workforce and site expansion strategy
  • Work with Business Unit's leadership, HR, and Finance to define multi-year workforce plans aligned with strategy
  • Identify and evaluate new site opportunities, balancing customer proximity, talent access, and cost
  • Coordinate the setup of new locations – facilities, IT, compliance and recruitment support
  • Consolidate and drive tracking of headcount growth, hiring pipeline, and site capacity utilisation in collaboration with HR
  • Work with DUs and Core Development to forecast skill and role demand by year and domain
  • Act as the Business Units point of contact for Group or corporate expansion initiatives
  • Develop business cases and proposals for expansion projects
  • Support onboarding and integration of new teams/sites into Business Unit processes and culture

Your profile

  • Background in workforce planning, operations, or corporate expansion projects
  • Strong project management skills with multi-stakeholder coordination experience
  • Ability to work with data to forecast demand and track progress
  • Proven ability to introduce and embed modern workforce growth practices, from talent acquisition strategies and onboarding approaches to digital recruitment tools and analytics
  • Comfortable navigating corporate processes for approvals and funding
  • Fluency in both spoken and written Swedish and English
  • Experience in defence and engineering is considered a strong asset

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 demonstrate an attitude that supports both team and organisational 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 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

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.



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