Head of Security Operations to Saab Surveillance

Head of Security Operations to Saab Surveillance
Apply locations:
Stockholm - Järfälla, Göteborg - Solhusgatan 10
Time type:
Full time
Posted on:
Posted 2 Days Ago
Time left to apply:
End Date:
January 12, 2025 (21 days left to apply)
Job requisition id:
REQ_30892
Do you want to take lead in developing and ensuring the operational security within one of Saab's most interesting and complex security landscape? At Business Area Surveillance, security is prioritized, on top management's agenda and considered crucial for competitiveness, profitability, and trust on a challenging global market.
Your role
Saab business area Surveillance is looking for a Head of Operational Security.
As a Head of Operational Security at business area Surveillance, you will work in an international environment where a complex security threat landscape as well as a sometimes challenging requirement landscape is part of our daily operations.
You will be part of the everyday operations and projects with high business impact, which is why it is important to have a good business understanding.
In this role, you will manage, lead, and coordinate a team of security generalists with different skillsets to support all our widespread operations.
The aim for this team is to support and govern our businesses and ensure a compliant and adequate security set-up throughout our wide operations.
This role requires a very good ability to cooperate and communicate since you are dependent on other functions and specialists to support your team of security generalists.
This role will be the manager for a team of security generalists and part of the Surveillance security management team, where you will be part of deciding the strategic and operational direction for the security function.
Your main tasks will be:


Manager for our Operational Security team
Part of the management team within Surveillance security
Represent Surveillance Operational Security internally and externally
Security risk management, including risk assessments
Compliance management including establishing and maintaining security instructions, routines, and guidelines
Trainings and presentations

All areas of protective security management will be a major part of your everyday work and the Operational Security manager will lead, guide, and support others in the team.
Your profile
Required skills:


A university degree or equivalent competence acquired through work life experience in security risk management, crisis management, and/or similar
Several years of experience from working with security risk management, crisis management, and/or similar within the Saab context or similar
Experience from working with security management
Experience from working with Swedish protective security
Leadership/management experience
Good problem-solving skills in a security context
Good ability to establish clear structures and handle many tasks simultaneously
Good communication skills in Swedish and English, verbal and written

Desired skills:


Experience from working for government authorities or in a global context including understanding of various security-related issues in the business process
Experience from working with GSA's, Classifications guides, security within contracts in and outside Sweden
Experience from audit and control within protective security
Good knowledge about Saab's routines and processes
Ability to build and maintain networks and good relations inside as well as outside your own organization
Experience from working with incident handling and/or incident investigations

Personal qualities will be of great importance; you are a true team player, always focusing on the team's results and supporting the business and the company.
This position will be based in either Gothenburg or Stockholm, but for the right candidate, other locations where Surveillance has established operations might be considered.
Since we are a global company and we work in an international context, we require that you feel confident in both speaking and writing in English.
The position will require travel, both domestic and international, in order to support and continually follow up with your team and operation, maintain networks, conduct training, etc.
It also requires a flexible and dynamic individual who can adjust and quickly adapt to changes.
It is paramount that you are trustworthy with strong ethics and personal integrity and you understand the need for balanced security in a business-driven environment.
This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around security protection.
For positions requiring security clearance, additional obligations on citizenship may apply.
What you will be part of
Behind our innovations stand the people who make them possible.
Brave pioneers and curious minds.
Everyday heroes and inventive troubleshooters.
Those who share deep knowledge and those who explore sky-high.
And everyone in between.
Joining us means making an impact together, contributing in our own unique ways.
From crafting complex code and building impressive defense and security solutions to simply sharing a coffee with a colleague, every action counts.
We encourage you to take on challenges, to create smart inventions and grow in our friendly and tech-savvy workspace.
We have a solid mission to keep people and society safe.
Saab is a leading defense and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe.
Empowered by its 23,000 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 defense capability of several nations.
About Us
At Saab, we constantly look ahead and push boundaries for what is considered technically possible.
We collaborate with colleagues around the world who all share our challenge - to make the world a safer place.
Saab is a global defense and security company operating in the fields of air, land, and naval defense, civil security, and commercial aeronautics.
We number approximately 22,000 employees and have operations on all continents.
Technologically we are leaders in many areas, and one-fifth of our earnings are spent on research and development.
Saab is a company where we see diversity as an asset and offer unlimited opportunities for advancing in your career.
We are also a company that respects each person's needs and encourages employees to lead a balanced, rewarding life beyond work.
Saab values diversity and is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran, or disability status.
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