Lead Business Designer

After ten successful years in Norway and five in Denmark, EGGS now look forward to offering our services to the Swedish market. Our goal is to help clients future-proof their businesses and create sustainable, valuable offerings.

In December 2021, EGGS became a part of Sopra Steria Scandinavia. By combining our innovation superpowers with Sopra Steria's innovative digital transformation expertise, we will be THE one-stop-shop for innovation in Scandinavia.

Who are we looking for?

We're searching for a highly experienced Business Designer with an excellent ability to shape business opportunities and strong design methodology skills. In addition, to be a good fit for the role of Lead Business Designer, we believe that you:

• Have experience in sales, and ability to convert client challenges into innovation projects

• Have an entrepreneurial mindset with a drive to play a key role in building EGGS in Sweden

• Have a strong local market understanding and network to leverage on

• Have a solid innovation methodology foundation

• Have a design-related academic background, ideally with a business, innovation, and entrepreneurship mix

• Have a deep curiosity for developing organisations, people, and co-creative processes

• Have a genuine passion for co-creative processes and experience leading cross-functional teams

• Have the mindset and skills to find the sweet spot where human needs, societal benefits and business impact meet

• Are familiar with Swedish public procurement processes

• Have extensive experience in leading complex innovation projects

• Are comfortable and willing to lead, build and inspire teams

• Are a skilled and organised project manager

• Have a passion for driving development within your design field

• Have 10+ years of relevant work experience

• Fluency in Swedish and/or another Scandinavian language

What will you be doing?

As a Lead Business Designer in EGGS, you will lead impactful projects through a design-driven innovation approach. Some examples of things you might be doing are:

• Planning, selling, and leading design-driven innovation projects in collaboration with clients

• Contributing with your competence to grow an EGGS team in Sweden

• Ensuring the quality of all client deliveries

• Collaborating with team members to create holistic and impactful business design deliveries

• Designing business models, strategies, organisational structures, processes, and roadmaps

• Validating new business opportunities, key desirability, and viability assumptions

• Facilitating processes with colleagues, clients, and users to ensure that the solutions are co-created and firmly anchored

• Being responsible for building and developing client relationships

• Leading projects through all phases – from insights to development, and implementation

• Have project manager responsibilities, such as allocation, budget, and client contact

• Representing EGGS and your design field externally at events, presentations, and forums

What’s in it for you?

In EGGS, we want to be the best workplace for creative people. You will play an important role in the unique situation of building EGGS in Sweden, under the wings of Sopra Steria. Working with us, you can count on:

• A genuinely people-centric, warm, open, and compassionate culture

• Plenty of inspiring and meaningful projects

• A high degree of flexibility and self-leadership

• 120+ EGGS colleagues and 500+ Sopra Steria Sweden colleagues to play with

• Dedicated and supportive leaders

• Working alongside innovative colleagues within all creative disciplines

• Many opportunities to socialise and celebrate with your colleagues across our offices

How to apply

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you! Please click 'Apply now' and send us the following:

• Your portfolio

• Your CV

• Your letter of motivation

Please note that in this recruitment process, you will apply via Sopra Steria Sweden's recruitment system.

PS. We can only accept applications received through our recruitment system to ensure a smooth and compliant process (GDPR), so please – don’t send your application by email.

Application deadline: April 28th, 2023