Digital Product Area Owner Platform as Service

Join us on our transformation journey to the digital future 

At Group Digital & IT, 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 Group IT, 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. 

This will be us - your new colleagues within Core Platform Area (CPA) Software & Diagnostics

Core Platform Area (CPA) Software & Diagnostics is a new function within Technology. It has the ambition to identify and execute on new digital initiatives supporting embedded software handling in tight collaboration with TD/BAs and Group Functions as well as modernize and transform our existing solutions into digital products. 

Together with our digital talents, we will work on solution design and deliveries to improve business performance and create value at scale for Volvo Group. Included in our mission is to drive an efficient Group IT interface and Portfolio Management for the TD/BAs and Group Functions. 

We collaborate with other parts of the organization, both in Group IT, with TD/BAs and Group Functions. We foster an environment where ideas, thoughts and opinions can be shared. We are team players with clear common ambitions, and we win together.

This is how you could make an impact

In this role you will have the responsibility of managing the Platform as Service team in Bangalore. The coming year the focus is to transform from legacy, monolith to platforms on which future services and solutions will be built at scale.

Part of your work is to set the vision and strategy of your delivery. Moreover, you will support the team to deliver value and together with other colleagues drive the transformation of the Software and Diagnostics platform domain.

In your role, you are adding value by developing high performing teams and building great collaboration with the stakeholders in your deliveries. In addition, you are driving the change management necessary to reach the transformation goals. This role includes line management responsibility and you will report to the Head of Platform as Services.

Your mission if you accept it:
  • Managing the IT solution design and delivery
  • Supporting different strategic initiatives in terms of team capacity and knowledge.
  • Securing product quality aligned with compliance, budget, and SLA in line with Volvo Group Business Critical application area
  • Accelerating the DevSecOps journey and continuously improving speed and agility
  • Drive continuous improvements in way of working towards a fully agile approach
  • Encouraging the team to embrace modern technologies, finding ways to utilize them for the best of the solution and Volvo Group.

Who are you?

To be successful in this role we believe you need to have
  • Strong delivery focus and customer mindset
  • Experience working in an agile set up
  • Understanding of solution delivery frameworks
  • Leadership experience
  • Excellence at stakeholder management and great communication skills
  • Experience in driving initiatives and prioritizing various activities
  • Ability to create team’s engagement around shared visions and objectives
  • Experience in working in a global and cross-functional environment

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 in order 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.

In your role as Digital Product Area Owner, we expect you to develop your area of responsibility by having the ability to define the right priorities based on a customer centric mindset. 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 where of continuously improvements and learning maximize the outcome of our work.

To achieve our goals, we collaborate within and across teams. We empower others to grow and 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. 

Are you curious and have questions? Call us!

Contacts:

Juliana Furuzato, Head of Platform as Service,
CPA Software and Diagnostics, Technology, Group Digital & IT
Leena Ushas, HR Business Partner

The Volvo Group drives prosperity through transport solutions, offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity. Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to shaping the future landscape of sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions. Countless career opportunities are offered across the group’s leading brands and entities that share a culture of Trust, Passion, High Performance, Change and Customer Success. 
www.volvogroup.com/career. 

Group Digital & IT has the ambition to enable value creation at scale for the Volvo Group. Digital solutions are becoming more and more key in the industries, where we are operating. The solutions and emerging technologies, provided by Group Digital & IT, enable our customers and their customers to do more with less, better for others and best for the future.

We are 3,600 employees located in more than 30 countries, present at all major Volvo Group locations, and we are working in a completely global organization.

In Group Digital & IT we strive for something bigger, we are truly customer centric, and we collaborate with inclusion, together cross the Volvo Group. We learn to stay ahead, we are curious and eager to acquire new and deeper knowledge, both as individuals and as teams.

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