Head of Product & System Management - Arexis

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Your role

We are on an ambitious journey to become the world’s leading supplier of Fighter Electronic Warfare. With a strong installed base and years of focused innovation, we have developed Arexis – one of the most advanced EW suites available today. Already deployed on Gripen, our vision goes far beyond. Now, we are looking for a driven and strategic leader who wants to make a real impact – both on our business and on helping keep people and society safe.

The Product Unit Arexis is a part of the Business Unit Fighter Core Capabilities within Surveillance. The Product Unit is responsible for profitability, strategies, budgets and long- and short term goals for the portfolio within the Arexis Product family. The product unit consists of contract- project- and product management as well as System design, Software development, Integration and Verification.

As Head of Product & Systems Management within Product Unit Arexis, you will hold the overall responsibility for the Arexis product family from a product and system perspective. You will play a key role in defining the direction of our offering – ensuring that product strategies, system architecture, and roadmaps are aligned with customer needs, market developments, and future capabilities.

You will lead an organization of approximately 50 employees, working across product management, systems engineering, and key governance areas such as requirements and configuration management. You will be responsible for creating clear structures and ways of working that enable both strategic direction and efficient execution.

In this role, you will connect long-term product strategy with ongoing development and business opportunities, ensuring that we continuously evolve our offering while supporting both current and future contracts.

Success in this role requires close and effective collaboration across Product Units, with customers, and within the broader Business Unit, ensuring alignment between product definition, system realization, and business growth.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Lead, coach, and develop an organization of approximately 50 employees
• Hold overall responsibility for the Arexis product family from a product and systems perspective
• Define and drive strategic product management, including product definitions and lifecycle plans (PLCM)
• Drive business development for future contracts in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders
• Ensure robust requirements management, including stakeholder requirements, system architecture, and configuration management
• Own and develop product and system roadmaps on multiple levels
• Lead system engineering activities on system level
• Ensure system-level verification and alignment with product and customer requirements
• Establish effective governance, processes, and ways of working across the function

Your profile

You are a strong and forward-leaning leader with a solid combination of business understanding, product thinking, and system knowledge. You are comfortable operating at the intersection of strategy, technology, and execution, and you thrive in environments where complexity requires clarity and structure.

You are proactive, communicative, and skilled at aligning stakeholders around a common direction. You build trust and collaboration across functions and create an environment where teams can perform, develop, and contribute to long-term success.

We believe you bring:

• Proven experience in product management, systems engineering, or similar roles in advanced technology environments
• Leadership experience with personnel and budget responsibility
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle management and system-level development
• Experience working with requirements management, system architecture, and configuration management
• A solid business mindset and experience contributing to business growth and customer offerings
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across multiple stakeholders
• Relevant academic degree or equivalent professional experience

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.

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.

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