Head of production planning

Driven Manager (Head of Planning) who thrives in an area full of changes and logistic development.
Department Maintenance Production are now looking for a Head of Planning. The section consists of approx. 18 employees reporting direct to the Head of planning.

The team are located in both Malmslätt (Linköping) and Arboga.


Your role

You will lead and manage a team consisting of Order/Workshop Planning, Order registration and Logistic development.

The role also include to be part of a numbers of projects in terms of Planning, Operations and Business development.

You will report direct to the Director of the Department and will be a very important part of the management team.

* You will Lead and manage a team of approx. 16-20 members
* Develop the team and the team members
* Follow up and plan for the deliveries within the MP department
* Responsibility regarding budget, Health and safety for the team and Employer responsibility


Your profile

Required skills:

* Bachelor degree in Logistic or equal experience through work life
* Minimum five years of planning/logistic experience
* Excellent communication skills in Swedish and English, verbal and written
* Social team player who always think what's best for SAAB AB
* Confident in decision making
* Analytic



Desired skills:

* Experience from Industry is desired
* LEAN education and/or experience
* Change management



The position requires travelling on a weekly basis mainly in Sweden but some international travelling will occur.
Driver's license B is required.
We put great emphasis on personal characteristics for the position, as well as securing a high performing, co-operative management team for the Department.
You are a committed and driven manager with preferably previous experience in leading and managing people. For this role you need to have strong communicative skills and the ability to enthuse and motivate others in your surroundings. You have a leadership style that encourages an open, trustful and innovative culture. It is important to be able to work in cooperation with stakeholders such as other Departments and Business Units within Saab.

This position requires that you will be approved in a security screening in accordance with the Swedish Protective Security Act.



What you will be a part of

Support and Services, a business area of Saab, supplies a wide range of services and integrated support solutions to customers in defense and on commercial markets for cost-efficient support of systems and platforms throughout their life cycle.

Business unit Gripen Support manages Gripen business within Support and Services and provides a focal point for customers and partners. We provide support for the Gripen system including a range of products and services e.g. technical support, maintenance, ground support equipment, component repair, services for advanced electronic systems, as well as advanced logistics supply services. We also offer maintenance concepts as well as production and implementation of various parts of other maintenance solutions to customers in all domains.



Observe that you can send us your application in either Swedish or English.

If you are interested in what benefits you can take part of as an employee at Saab in Sweden, you can read more about them here.

If you aspire to help create and innovate whilst developing yourself in a challenging team setting, Saab may well have the perfect conditions for you to grow. We pride ourselves on a nurturing environment, where everyone is different yet we share the same goal - to help protect people