Information Security Officer at Saab Kockums

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Your role

Do you want to develop security at one of Sweden’s most high-tech companies? At Saab security is prioritized, on top management’s agenda and crucial for competitiveness, profitability and trust in a challenging global market.

Saab Kockums is looking for an Information Security Officer. In this role you will work in an international environment where advanced security threats are part of everyday business, alongside complex business environments and projects with high business impact.

In your role you will be responsible for information security matters and your main tasks are to support the core business in information security issues. Furthermore, you will develop and strengthen the company’s knowledge regarding information security. Together with colleagues in the security department, you will strive for improvements in the field of information security.

Your main tasks will be:

• Providing support regarding classification and handling of information on operational and strategic level
• Developing and maintaining our information security policies
• Driving adaptation and compliance regarding information security and ways of working with classified information
• Providing support regarding risk and information analysis and recommending relevant actions
• Teaching, training and presenting
• Participating in corporate forums within Saab where you’ll represent Saab Kockums AB in matters concerning information security
  
  
  

You will liaise and collaborate extensively internally and externally.

You will be based either in Lund or Karlskrona, but we are a global company working in an international context meaning both domestic and international travel will be required.

Your profile

To be successful in this role we believe you have:

• Documented experience from information security both in the national and the international context
• Documented experience in Swedish Security Protection Act
• Good communication skills in Swedish and English, verbal and written
• Several years of experience from working with security related legislation and legal frameworks
  
  
  

We consider it an advantage if you have:

• Several years of experience from working for government authorities or in a global company including understanding of security related issues in the business process
• Experience from and ability to build and maintain networks and good relations inside as well as outside your own organization
• Experience from working with international and/or non-governmental organization’s classified information and compliance
• Experience working with NIST, ISO 27001, ISO 27002, GDPR and/or equivalent frameworks
  
  
  

You are a true team player, and as such you focus on team results. Personal qualities will be of the outmost importance, and it is paramount that you are a trustworthy individual with strong ethics and personal integrity. You understand the need for balanced security in a business-driven environment.

As an Information Security Officer at Saab Kockums, you are likely to get in contact with classified information. 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

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

If you are interested in what benefits you can take part of as an employee at Saab in Sweden, you can read more about them here

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