Portfolio Manager

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.

Take the lead in shaping Saab’s future portfolio. As Portfolio Manager, you will turn strategic vision into actionable plans, ensuring our products align with both current and emerging defense needs. This is your opportunity to make a real impact in a complex, fast-moving environment.

Your role

As our next Portfolio Manager, you will lead the work to aggregate product plans of the product lifecycles, from identified opportunity to end-of-service, across the entire portfolio within the Business Area Dynamics. You’ll shape both history and future of defense in an environment where adaptability, managing complexity, and collaboration are key drivers of success.

Key responsibilities:

• Steer the business area in the right direction through working closely with the business units in aligning the portfolio to the strategies and business plan.
• Be part of the PM&T of PLCM (product life-cycle management), driving efficiency.
• Together with the Head of Strategy & Future Capabilities defining the governance structure for portfolio management at business area-level.
• Support the Head of Strategy & Future Capabilities in working with and reporting the total of the business area’s commercial products to Group-level
• Support the Business units in R&D-investment strategies to ensure a future-adopted portfolio.
• Work closely with business development, CMI/BI, M&A, digitalisation, innovation and future capabilities to ensure portfolio alignment in shifting landscapes and emerging customer needs.
• Balance multiple interfaces and priorities, ensuring agile responses to new opportunities and challenges

Your profile

You hold a Master’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline and bring a strategic mindset with the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously. You are a confident and collaborative leader who builds trust, aligns stakeholders, and communicates effectively even in uncertain or complex situations.

You thrive in environments where adaptability, teamwork, and clear prioritisation are essential, always keeping the bigger picture in mind. Experience in the defense sector, understanding product lifecycles, R&D-investment strategies, or multi-domain Army/Battlefield solutions is an advantage, but above all, it is your leadership, strategic thinking, and drive to deliver results that will make you successful in this role.

We encourage you to include both your CV and a cover letter, where you describe why you are the right person for this position. Share how your experience, skills, and motivation can contribute to our team and our future 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 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