Sales Director at Marketing & Sales

at  Saab Inc

You will join a highly professional sales team with personnel of different backgrounds and competences, all with a mission to keep people and society safe.
Your role
You will be the core team leader in a team where each member contributes with their individual experiences but without any line manager responsibilities.
You are expected not only to work with your individual area of responsibility, being a member of a team also puts emphasis on listening, interacting and taking active part in other internal and external functions.
To be successful in this role, we expect you to demonstrate a very strong drive, collaboration skills, commitment and ability to motivate and enthusiasm your surroundings. You are a confident communicator leading by values, visions and goals. You enjoy situations where you interact socially and face customers.
Your profile
We are looking for a winner within Marketing & Sales to capture business opportunities with a strong desire to win and improve our business. The responsibility encompasses securing business opportunities for all the products in the Surface Sensor Solutions portfolio. The Product Sales Responsible will be driving the market areas in promoting the product portfolio, from early stages to final negotiations. In this position, you will handle complex business setups involving several stakeholders in an international environment.

Whitin this role it is key that you:

• Passionate about sales and driving sales-related activities
• Proven skills and records for the last years in complex sales
• Has an understanding for profitable business and the capability to build strong relationships/partnerships throughout the whole business cycle.
• A great leader that could engage and encourage all team members to get them aligned with the overhaul goal with the business.
• Have a strong drive and understand that it is equally important to collaborate with other functions within Saab, as well as meeting customers abroad.

We appreciate having a relevant educational background and relevant experience in either business or technical areas. Working with procurement authorities in Sweden, internationally, or both is beneficial. We believe you can effectively combine strategic planning with operational actions. We highly regard excellent language abilities, especially English as a minimum requirement, and extra points for proficiency in other languages. We place importance on being a team player with strong leadership skills. We also recognize your ability to drive results, engage, and motivate others in a positive manner. Furthermore, we value your understanding of the business world and the focus on customer satisfaction.
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 her

• Passionate about sales and driving sales-related activities
• Proven skills and records for the last years in complex sales
• Has an understanding for profitable business and the capability to build strong relationships/partnerships throughout the whole business cycle.
• A great leader that could engage and encourage all team members to get them aligned with the overhaul goal with the business.
• Have a strong drive and understand that it is equally important to collaborate with other functions within Saab, as well as meeting customers abroad