Digital Product Area Owner

Volvo Group Poland - Digital Product Area Owner

As the Digital Product Area Owner, you will strategically oversee the digital product capabilities in the area of SAP Sales and Distribution, and ensure alignment with the organization’s overall strategy. You will collaborate with other parts of the organization, both in DTO, with the different business units and Group Functions. We are an environment where ideas, thoughts and opinions can be shared. We are team players with clear common ambitions, and we create the future together.

As the Digital Product Area Owner you will be a key in adding value by aligning strategy with competence capacity and methods to the expected transformation towards the targeted footprint.

• Develop the capabilities vision, strategy, goal & roadmap aligned with business priorities
• Manage budget and financial follow up for the area
• Manage cross team dependencies and support collaboration both within and outside area, and business partners
• Support overarching capabilities prioritization in one rhythm and contribute on roadmap planning
• Facilitate capacity management and resource allocation discussions across the area
• Actively work for teams’ empowerment, building the needed skills, competencies and trust for teams to take ownership of shared capabilities and cultivating agile mindset
• Strive for simplification, encourage waste reduction and continuous improvement
• Nurture collaboration, stimulate great conversation and transparency between stakeholders
• Secure that capabilities are developed and maintained in compliance within given architecture and security guidelines, meeting required quality expectations until decommissioning
• Drive for capabilities development based on end-user, market trend and data analysis, understand the business and their end-users to evolve capabilities and make right priorities over its lifecycle
• Manage, as line manager, the professional development and support career development of the team members through coaching and performance feedback

Who are you?

We believe you want to take your career to the next level, working with amazing people around the world. To be successful in this position we believe you have a university degree and several years of experience in people leadership, with solid hands-on experience in SAP configuration or development in SAP SD (Sales and Distribution) and Service Billing. SAP Variant Configuration experience will be an added advantage, since we intensely use this functionality for the construction equipment business.

You need to understand the cost, risks and compliance requirements associated with the development and operations to assess the benefit and value.

The right candidate will be able to think and act strategically but also to operate and implement change tactically when required, dealing effectively with ambiguity and managing changing priorities. To be successful in this role you have the experience and knowledge of how to handle a global technological transformation on a strategic level. This role requires solid communication and collaboration skills and a passion for leading, inspiring and developing people.

In addition to this, you are a passionate believer in lifelong learning. You should feel energized by working both independently and interdependently, have proven skills in cross-functional collaboration and thrive in managing, foster, and enable both the perform and the transform angles of the job.

Are we a good match?

In the Volvo Group, we have defined leadership as a set of observable behaviors that leaders exercise to achieve alignment towards our vision 2030, to better execute our strategy and for the Group to continuously renew itself to “Perform and Transform”. To reach our vision and deliver on our strong commitments, we need to pair “the will” with “the skill”. That is why our leadership principles are behavioral based. The principles Lead with Passion, Perform with Purpose and Transform with Vision are our values in action, and they will strengthen our culture.

We encourage the ability to drive business forward and act upon opportunities and ideas and transform them into value (financial, cultural, or social) for others. We create an environment of continuous improvements and learning to help you maximize the outcome of our work.

To achieve our goals, we collaborate within and across teams. We create a sense of unity and trust by nurturing open dialogues and collective work. We build a work environment where diversity in expertise, opinion and culture is valued.

Moreover, we can offer you:

• Collaborative environment in Swedish organizational culture
• Work-life balance: we make sure you enjoy quality time away from work
• Remote work opportunities, employment contract, and flexible working hours
• Equipment and tools needed in everyday work
• Clear career path & extended competence development package (training, mentorship, conferences, internal upskilling programs, certificates)
• Private healthcare
• Volvo League: We run team games in various sports
• Participation in international projects and different pieces of training

We believe great results come from working together. At Volvo Group, our teams collaborate mainly from our sites, where innovation, learning, and teamwork thrive. Flexibility is possible and discussed with the manager based on business and role needs.

Volvo Group Digital Technology & Operations (DTO) is a new division established to integrate the capabilities of VG Digital & IT and VG Connected Solutions to accelerate the digital transformation in Volvo Group. The organizational set up is structured around domains, digital products with functions for digital excellence to deliver outstanding customer experience.

Joining the new DTO division means being part of a fast-moving digital product-oriented organization where teams truly own what they build from idea to delivery. In DTO, we work in agile, cross-functional teams, mastering the latest technology, and creating outstanding digital experiences that make a real difference for our colleagues and Volvo Group customers around the world. We put people first and build our culture on trust, passion, customer success, change, and performance. If you want to grow, collaborate across functions and entities, and help shape the future of digital products within Volvo Group, DTO is a great place to be.

Job Category: Information Technology

Organization: Volvo Group Digital Technology & Operations

Travel Required: Occasional Travel