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Göteborg, Sweden
Closing date: 18 August 2024
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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.
Your role
The work is of an event driven nature where both initiative and the ability to evaluate situations and options are needed, sometimes in a time critical manner. As Customer Project Manager you will take full responsibility for all project management aspects including:
•	Project definition and bid preparations
•	Active sales team member, including team interaction with customers and partners as well as Marketing Area and Saab management
•	Project management during the execution phase of contracts
•	Interface towards our customers during execution and responsible for fulfillment of contract including negotiations
•	Ensure short and long term profitability of the projects and secure that the goals are fulfilled
•	Challenge the organization to continuously improve in order to contribute to increased efficiency in our operations
•	Inform and establish commitment for the project in the organization in order to meet the customers’ expectations and to ensure commercial success of your projects
Within Surface Sensor Solutions the Project Management offices are responsible for executing all won contracts and base projects with the main task to secure good profitability, cash flow, delivery precision, quality and customer satisfaction over time. The project management offices are working closely with Marketing & Sales to win our business and with Engineering and Sourcing & Production to deliver our contracts.
Your profile 
You have a technical background and leadership experience with focus on business and customer understanding. Highly qualifying is if you have a financial understanding and experience from project management and contract negotiations. You are comfortable working both independently within your field of competence as well as with other interfaces in order to secure quality, to meet directives and deadlines. You are a team player, willing to walk the extra mile for your team and its objectives. You are not afraid of helping out operationally in the project if needed for the project to succeed.
We believe you do have enthusiasm, perseverance and an interest for understanding the circumstances and conditions relevant for each customer solution and business case. You have excellent communication skills in both Swedish and English. The majority of our subcontractors and customers are situated abroad, which means that international travels are a natural part of our job. You are prepared to learn new things and you easily find yourself in different environments and cultures.
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 a 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 defence 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 defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 22,000 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 defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here
And here is my CV: A Recognized Expert in Project Management, Experienced in All Aspects of Providing Focused, Business
Solutions Ensuring Operational Excellence
 Comprehensive background in project management solutions, with the skills and abilities to provide service delivery for large
prestigious organizations.
 Internationally experienced, with over 30 years of specific business and project management organizational skills.
 Dedicated to assisting companies with attaining business and financial goals.
 Multi-lingual, speaking Swedish, English, Greek, Italian, and German.
 Recognized as a management expert in the execution of strategic planning and analysis, streamlining innovative solutions to
achieve overall goals.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Cross-Functional Collaboration  Business Process Improvements  Program & Project Management  Team Management 
Solutions Advice  Stakeholder Management  Cost Reduction  Resource Management  Leadership  Communication 
Competitive Intelligence  Budget Allocation  Service Delivery  Change Management
EXPERIENCES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Ansys Sweden AB, Gothenburg, Sweden 2021 -2024
Senior Customer Project Manager
Managed successfully the completion of a four-year 11 MEur complex project using agile and hybrid ways of working. Kept
motivated both the teams that are globally distributed as well the outsourced team for the Front End development.
 Secured the deadlines by having regular and frequent meetings with the development teams.
 Communicated the progress of the project to the senior management.
 Had frequent meetings with the customer to inform about the progress and managed the expectations.
 Developed processes for Lessons learned and Testing.
Accelerated Growth AB, Gothenburg, Sweden 2017 –2021
Senior Project Manager
Ansys Sweden AB, Stockholm, Sweden 2019 - 2021
Senior Project Manager
Effectively brought to track a complex project for a major multinational Telecommunications company, developing automated
simulation applications using agile and hybrid ways. Coordinated the increments to be delivered to the customer with the Scrum
Master and the development teams from multiple disciplines and globally distributed. Managed overseas-outsourced suppliers of
Front-End development and testing.
 Conducted regular meetings with senior management and the customer to encourage communication and successfully
resolve any project issues.
 Presented weekly to the common Steering Committee the progress of the project.
 Scheduled the major deliveries in close cooperation with the management team of the customer.
Volvo Car Corporation, Gothenburg, Sweden 2017 - 2019
Senior IT Project Manager
Managed digitization projects life cycle, secured necessary resources for completion, while supervising international team
members to coordinate timely and successful execution using traditional, agile and hybrid approaches. Reported monthly the
estimated budget forecast and the accruals for the projects.
 Implemented the Temporary Part Deviation functionality in an existing application coordinating internal crossdepartmental
resources and outsourced suppliers.
 Delivered a three-track project that examined integration options for Issue and Change Management as well as Part
Deviations between car manufacturers.
 Executed a 15 MSEK project that implemented an information management solution for system engineering and software
development. Ordered licenses and bought in resources.
 Completed 10% below budget a 6.8 MSEK project with a team of both internal resources and offshore service providers
for the upgrade of a SW handling tool with further functionality. Negotiated the time and the cost with the suppliers to
control the performance indicators.
SingularLogic S.A.,Athens, Greece 2017 - 2017
Senior Project Manager
Implemented successfully integration projects for companies in the oil industry, pharmaceutical companies, and maritime
companies. The integrations included CRM, OTR (One Touch retail) and ERP systems.
 Gathered financial data for the projects and reported monthly to finance and upper management.
 Conducted weekly meetings with the major customers to synchronize and get early alerts of project issues.
 Coordinated project members from different departments to achieve project success in terms of time management and
customer satisfaction.
VOICES FROM COLLEAGUES
“You brought into the project a level of wisdom that helped to completely change the destiny of this project. You had been inspiring
for me.”
“As we discussed many times, your resilience and persistence have been key on such a long run. You stepped in this program during
some of the most difficult and complex hours of this program and you never gave up.”
“Indeed, it's one of the most complex projects I have seen in my tenure with a lot of challenges and you managed and supported my
testing activities very well.”
“I learned many things from you. You are a very polite and calm person I have seen and handled complex situations with patience.”
“Despite the challenges, you managed to keep the project straight and, more importantly, you made us feel supported and backed up.”
“You were the quiet strength of this Project in my mind, taking topics one by one seriously and full-hands”
ADDITIONAL CAREER HIGHLIGHTS, A SELECTION
Senior Project Manager, Scrum master- AppArt S.A., Athens, Greece 2012-2017
Head of Program Management/Head of Technical Contract Administration &Ordering -Wind Hellas, Athens, Greece 2004-2011
Account Project Manager / Project Manager- Ericsson Hellas, Athens, Greece 1998-2004
Assistant Consolidation Project Manager / Telecommunication Software Tester- Ericsson, Rome, Italy 1997-1998
EDUCATION
Certificate: Electronic Design, Sundsvalls Högskola, Sweden 1986
Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute 2016
Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), Scrum.org 2019
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
Microsoft Office | Microsoft Project | Azure DevOps | Project Libre | Primavera P6