Expansion and Growth Lead
Saab
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Solna • 🇸🇪 Sweden
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Senior
About the role
- Lead the Business Unit's workforce and site expansion strategy
- Plan and deliver a five-year journey to increase headcount and open new sites for the C5ISR business
- Collaborate with senior 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 setup of new locations including 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 Unit's 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
Requirements
- 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 (talent acquisition strategies, onboarding approaches, digital recruitment tools and analytics)
- Comfortable navigating corporate processes for approvals and funding
- Fluency in spoken and written Swedish and English
- Experience in defence and engineering is considered a strong asset
- Position requires passing security vetting; additional citizenship obligations may apply
Benefits
- Unlimited opportunities for advancing in your career
- Encouragement for a balanced, rewarding life beyond work
- Saab values diversity and is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
workforce planningoperations managementproject managementdata analysistalent acquisition strategiesonboarding approachesdigital recruitment toolsanalytics
Soft skills
multi-stakeholder coordinationcommunicationcollaborationstrategic planning