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At Saab, you can realise amazing innovations that keep people and societies safe. Together, we can truly make an impact - and your part matters.\nYour Role\nAt Saab Surveillance, Procurement plays a critical role in ensuring delivery capability, supply resilience, competitiveness, and business performance. As our business continues to grow and evolve, so do the demands on Procurement. We are therefore looking for a Head of Procurement - Direct Material who will lead and develop the Procurement delivery organization at site level, ensuring the right capabilities, leadership, and stakeholder relationships are in place to support both current operations and future business needs.\nYou will play a key role in strengthening collaboration between Procurement, Production, Planning, Engineering, and Operations while building a high-performing organization capable of supporting increasingly complex products, projects, and customer commitments.\nAs Head of Procurement - Direct Material East, you will lead the regional Procurement delivery organization from our Stockholm site and act as representative across key stakeholder interfaces.\nYou will drive supplier performance, cost competitiveness, supply security, quality and sustainability while building strong partnerships across the business and with our strategic suppliers.\nYou will be responsible for developing people, capabilities, capacity, and organizational performance while ensuring strong collaboration with local stakeholders and business functions. As part of the Procurement management team, you will be working closely with BU Procurement managers, Supply Managers, and other internal and external business stakeholders. You will drive capability development, resource planning, organizational effectiveness, and continuous improvement across the Procurement organization. The role combines people leadership, organizational development, stakeholder management, and operational oversight.\nKey Responsibilities\nSite Leadership & Stakeholder Management\nRepresent Procurement in relevant management and leadership forums.\nBuild strong relationships with stakeholders and ensure Procurement is engaged in relevant decisions and planning activities.\nDrive collaboration and alignment between Procurement and other functions.\nSupplier & Procurement Performance\nDrive Procurement performance and relevant KPIs across delivery, cost, quality and supply resilience \nEnsure effective supplier performance management and support escalation of critical supplier matters.\nProvide leadership and direction to the Procurement organization, ensuring alignment with long-term Procurement strategies and business priorities \nPeople Leadership & Organizational Capability\nLead, develop, and support the Procurement delivery organization through managers at site.\nEnsure the organization has the right competencies, capacity, and structure to meet current and future needs.\nCreate a culture characterized by collaboration, accountability, learning, and continuous improvement.\nResource & Capacity Management\nEnsure Procurement resources are effectively planned and allocated.\nBalance business demands with available capability and capacity.\nSupport prioritization and organizational readiness for future business growth.\nYour profile\nYou are an engaging and people-focused leader who enjoys developing organizations and employees, creating the conditions for success.\nYou are comfortable balancing operational needs with long-term organizational development and are skilled at building trust and collaboration across functions and organizational levels.\nYou combine leadership, stakeholder management, and organizational development with a solid understanding of Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations, or Manufacturing environments.\nWe Believe You Have\nSignificant leadership experience within Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, or similar areas.\nExperience leading other managers and larger organizational units.\nStrong capability in organizational development and change leadership.\nExperience working closely with Production, Planning, Operations, or other business-critical functions.\nGood understanding of workforce planning, capability development, and resource management.\nExperience from manufacturing, industrial, aerospace, defense, or similarly complex environments is highly beneficial.\nStrong people leadership skills, with a proven ability to lead, develop, and motivate high-performing teams and managers.\nStrong collaborator with the ability to build effective partnerships across the Procurement leadership team and jointly drive performance, priorities, resource allocation, and continuous improvement.\nThis is a unique opportunity to shape and develop the future Procurement organization. You will be responsible for developing people, strengthening capabilities, building stakeholder relationships, and ensuring Procurement remains a strong contributor to business performance and future growth.\nThis 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.\nWhat you will be part of\nExplore 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 defense and security company with an enduring purpose, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 30,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.\nSaab 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. 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