Digital Product Area Owner

Join us on our transformation journey to the digital future

At Digital Technology and Operations, we have a clear ambition to enable value creation at scale for the Volvo Group. With a new product centric operating model and digital technologies, we will produce digital offerings that are profitable, scalable, and differentiated. With DTO, you will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals, who learn continuously and embrace change to stay ahead. We have a very important role to play in reaching the Volvo Group ambitions for 2030. Do you want to be part of our transformation journey towards becoming the digital capability of the Group? The time is now.

The organization is managing over 40 SAP Solutions worldwide supporting Volvo divisions, covering almost a full scope of business processes from Sales, Manufacturing, Logistics and Finance as well as Services, Data Intelligence and Reporting and HR. Our SAP community in Volvo has already joined more than 700 SAP Solution and Technology Consultant globally, working in the international teams, more than 70 working in subsidiary in Poland.

We have the best SAP talents in our field taking on challenging global assignments across the Volvo Group. Leveraging on their SAP skills combined with a very good understanding of the Volvo processes and IT solutions, they deliver concrete SAP solutions and provide added value to the Volvo Group.

We are looking for a DPAO to join our SAP VCE Sales team.

This will be you - your new challenge

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