Digital Product Manager - People Digital & IT
Göteborg, SE, 417 15 Wroclaw, PL, 51-502 Saint Priest, FR, 69800
Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future? If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
What you will do
As a Digital Product Manager within People Digital & IT you work in the intersection between business, technology, and user experience. You understand the end user, customer and business needs, utilizing user journeys and design thinking to secure the digital product brings continuous value. You have a genuine interest in our aspiration to be the most admired employer in our industry and curious how digitalization can support that journey.
Key responsibilities as Digital Product Manager
- Define digital product vision, strategy, goals and roadmaps together with business owners.
- Secure that business & digital initiative strategy and goals are visualized and well understood
- Maintain overview of products offered and identify synergies within product area and ensureing business flow is adequately supported
- Manage and lead interactions with stakeholders and end users.
- Regularly collect feedback on implemented work through measures, analytics and end user input.
- Ensure the entire user experience is designed with the user at the center and secure the products brings continuous business value.
- Provide thorough analysis and insights of market, technology, product trends and the competitive landscape
- Understand how and make sure we can leverage on AI in our digital products
Your future team
Digital & IT is a function in Group People & Culture at Volvo Group Headquarters and is responsible for our employee’s and people leader’s digital experience in people related matters. Our main global platforms supporting the digital journey are SaaS based and includes SAP SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, Cornerstone, SAP Concur and Microsoft Viva. Through these and also increasingly AI we continuously strive for a better user experience.
Our team is based in Gothenburg and Lyon and our team works in various roles leading our Digital and IT journey within Group People & Culture. You will have three colleagues also working as Digital Product Managers responsible for different parts of the portfolio, where you will have the focus on the global travel & expense and health & safety capabilities. In these areas we are on a digitalization journey where global roll-outs are in the starting blocks. Here you will have a leading role to ensure the success in these roll-outs and establishing future product organizations.
Additionally, you will take the role as a Digital Product Area Manager for the time management, payroll & benefits capabilities, taking the overarching responsibility for local applications in our 54 countries working with the locally appointed Digital Product Managers for these.
Together with them and our Enterprise Architects you will take the lead in forming our future. We are working in a global context in close collaboration with our colleagues in Group People & Culture, Group Digital & IT and the People & Culture functions in our Trucks Divisions, Business Areas and countries. We are working with agile methods such as Scrum.
Who are you?
Do you dream big? We do too, and we are excited to grow together. In this role, you will bring:
- Relevant University/Master’s degree
- 7+ years experience and proven successful track record in driving & leading digital product management. Project management experience is also a merit.
- Documented experience from managing and leading HR SaaS platforms, especially SAP Concur or similar, but SAP SuccessFactors and/or Workday is a strong merit. Experience from SaaS platforms in adjacent areas like Finance or Sales are also relevant equivalents.
- Experience from working in large, matrix and multinational environments
- Experience in supplier management and sourcing processes
- Good communication skills providing timely and helpful information to others across the organization.
- Skilled in driving stakeholder engagement and alignment.
- Experience from working with agile development either as a digital product owner or digital product manager
- Excellent communication and presentation skills in English, verbally and in writing
- Knowledge and understanding of people processes and especially in the areas of travel & expense, health & safety, time management, payroll & benefits is a strong merit
Ready for the next move?
If you are curious to explore how we put our words into actions, follow us on LinkedIn and volvogroup.com.
For further information please contact:
Max Ekberg, Head of Digital & IT, Group People & Culture, email: max.ekberg@volvo.com
Last application date is June 7, 2025
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Who we are and what we believe in
Our focus on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity allows each of us the opportunity to bring our full authentic self to work and thrive by providing a safe and supportive environment, free of harassment and discrimination. We are committed to removing the barriers to entry, which is why we ask that even if you feel you may not meet every qualification on the job description, please apply and let us decide.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, across the globe, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment, financial services, and solutions make modern life possible. We are almost 100,000 people empowered to shape the future landscape of efficient, safe and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents with sharp minds and passion across the group’s leading brands and entities.
At Group People & Culture, a part of Volvo Group, we create the foundation and frameworks for people growth and organizational development, to drive the people agenda that enables the realization of the Volvo Group aspirations through people strategy and commitment. You will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals who work with passion, trust each other and embrace change to stay ahead.