Project Manager for the Unit for Digitalization and Innovation
Workplace: Stockholm, Sverige
Expires: August 11, 2025
Lead and manage digital development projects within the agency's strategic digitalization efforts, collaborating with core operations, IT units, and external suppliers to drive change and develop digital services and system solutions.
Main requirements:
- Bachelor's degree relevant to the role, e.g., technology, information systems, digitalization, or business development
- Minimum of three years experience in project management of digital development projects
- Minimum of three years experience leading agile teams including solution architects, designers, developers, and testers
- Strong collaboration skills and experience working in cross-functional teams
- Ability to understand user and organizational needs as well as technical solutions
- Documented strategic and practical experience in developing business through digitalization
- Proficient in spoken (including sign language) and written Swedish
- Good ability to explain technical possibilities and limitations
- Good IT knowledge
Responsibilities:
- Lead and drive digital development projects
- Identify and describe project goals and expected impacts; develop roadmaps and project plans
- Lead agile teams
- Conduct workshops for requirements gathering
- Participate in procurement processes
- Lead meetings with suppliers to specify, estimate, discuss, order, and follow up on development and solutions
- Coordinate and plan alongside parallel projects
- Monitor and communicate project progress and results to steering committees and recipient units
- Plan testing activities
- Receive deliveries and ensure they meet expectations
- Plan training and roll-out; participate in change management
- Prepare for handover to operations
Required hard skills:
- Project management of digital development projects
- Leading agile cross-functional teams
- Requirement gathering and analysis
- Strategic and practical digital business development
- IT proficiency
Recommended hard skills:
- Project management certification
- Scrum certification
- Strong ability to identify and realize digitalization opportunities
- Experience in business development and change management
- Experience managing projects in large organizations
- Knowledge of service design
- Knowledge of system development and maintenance
Soft skills:
- Structured and able to independently plan, prioritize, and follow up projects
- Proactive and initiative-taking
- Communicative with ability to engage and anchor digital solutions and change needs
- Responsive and collaborative, able to translate organizational needs into concrete digital solutions
- Flexible and problem-solving, pragmatic and legally compliant handling of unexpected challenges
- Humble and respectful of agency frameworks, driving change within laws, guidelines, and public structures
Frameworks:
- Agile
- Scrum
Natural languages:
- Swedish (Proficient)
Cultural skills:
- Promoting diversity and equal value
- Collaborative team environment
- Sustainability orientation
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