Digital Product Owner

What you will do

As a Digital Product Owner (DPO), you will work closely with Digital Product Managers, SMEs, UX Designers, Data Analysts, suppliers and stakeholders, to continuously improve our products and the user experience. We are an environment where ideas, thoughts and opinions can be shared. We have clear common ambitions, and we create the future together.

Within this role, constructive collaboration with the other entities of Volvo Group, external partners, and HCL organization is a key factor of success. You will need to develop good relationship with your business partners and stakeholders.

Scope: Volvo Group Level and IT partners.

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 or equivalent, and experience of leading functionally, preferably within IT management. 
  • You have proven experience as a leader, good understanding of our partners and suppliers and have a clear Quality & Compliance focus.
  • You have personal drive-in functional management and strong networking; you can set direction and measurement and understand how these contribute to the Volvo Group vision and strategy.
  • You share core values according to the Volvo Way.
  • You could manage diversity, work in cross functional teams and build trust in the organization.
  • You actively collaborate with various stakeholders and navigate with ease in a multi-cultural environment.
  • You are comfortable with driving change and have courage to make decisions.
  • You also need to have a structured approach towards tackling challenges and handling various issues.
  • You get an opportunity to work together with highly skilled colleagues in an exciting, global environment which provides opportunities to develop both professionally and personally.
  • Furthermore, we believe this role requires experience from working towards digital product orientation, onsite delivery framework, stable team framework and agile ways of working.
  • 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, fostering, and enable both the performance and the transformation angles of the job.

This is how you could make an impact

As the Digital Product Owner, you will take ownership of specific part of the digital product and as a champion of the product vision and your team, you will turn the roadmap into deliverables and secure the alignment with the overall strategy and product vision. You are a member of a stable team and are responsible for managing the team backlog prioritization and delivery.

You will lead the OBO (On Behalf of) and ODF (Onsite Delivery Framework) Stable Team responsible for tactical and Strategic Area, and report to the IT Operations Management Manager.

These will be some selected responsibilities

• Support the team in creating product specifications in the form of user stories with acceptance criteria, to ensure the stable team have all required information to deliver the desired outcome.
• Lead the digital solution discovery process for assigned capabilities (including hypothesis generation, requirements gathering, design, and scoping) in collaboration with the digital product manager, suppliers, UX designers, data analysts, and Subject matter experts.
• You manage the Strategic and Tactical initiatives backlog and order and ensure that the backlog is visible, transparent, and understood.
• Contribute to the digital solution vision and champion this vision with stakeholders, suppliers and the stable team.
• Ensure that proper analytics, tracking and data collection mechanisms are in place to understand user behaviors and/or performance.
• Provide the necessary support to the stable team as may be required to aid their delivery.
• Work with suppliers as needed to ensure expected outcomes are achieved and measured.
• Manage the monthly board meetings, scope changes of sites and resource utilization.
• Owns team development to secure the team long and short-term plans for proper capacity and competence.
• Learning customer needs through data and customer feedback.
• Define the OLA with suppliers (Accountable).​
• Address supplier challenges related to FTE usage.​
• Collaborate with each supplier on settlement processes at the end of the year.
• Develop a comprehensive strategic plan for OBO and ODF.
• Govern and maintain the quality of Volvo Site Description.
• Secure Strategic relationship between Volvo management and HCL.

Since you are part of a global unit, with global responsibilities, you will need to actively cooperate with various stakeholders and navigate with ease in a multi-cultural environment. It is important you have an innovative and creative mind-set to inspire and challenge yourself in your organization. You also have a strong quality focus and a personal drive to reach the objectives and targets set for your unit, understanding how these contribute to the Volvo Group vision and strategy.

“In some countries and for specific positions within Volvo Group Digital & IT, background checks may be required, in accordance with local laws & regulations. If this is applicable to the role you have applied for, you will be informed.”