Application Manager/ Business Analyst

Application Manager/Business Analyst

At Information & Technology (IT), you find outstanding opportunities to develop your skills and grow as a professional. In close collaboration with colleagues in other business units around the world, you and your team create IT innovations that support the company's overall business development and daily operations. And ultimately - you will contribute to a superior experience for the people who buy and drive a Volvo. Volvo Cars is going through a digital transformation where business processes and IT are no longer separate entities that can be governed in isolation. Instead, IT is a vital part in enabling virtually every business initiative we do and an accelerator for implementing our processes in the markets.

Business and Application Services (BAS) is the department within Group IT with the purpose to preserve, maintain and support Volvo Car Group´s total application portfolio in the most effective, robust and secure way as part of our application life cycle management responsibility. Manufacturing and Logistics (M&L) is the area within BAS which covers all logistics and and production control applications globally. The M&L applications portfolio is part of the factory "heart", ie what keeps the factory running. The department Material Planning & Logistics (MP&L) systems Volvo Cars Torslanda, works with maintenance of logistic systems for car plants globally. We strive to support Volvo Car Group operations globally with flexible and competitive MP&L IT services, optimized for Volvo Car Group.

We are now looking for an Application manager/Business analyst with good business understanding and business acumen. The person should have experience from managing applications and experience from working as a business analyst on the border between IT and business units, it is also positive with experience from the automotive business. The person will also need to collaborate with other teams and functions globally to develop and maintain documented business requirements to be used throughout Volvo Cars. The position is a combination of three roles: Application Manager, Business Analyst and Project Manager for minor assignments, including test planning and supporting UAT

Main responsibilities

* Accountability for application functionality and service delivery to the related Business functions
* Manage and prioritise the application change requests together with the Business
* Responsible for retaining knowledge within VCC about application functionality, application dependencies and related Business domain. As Subject Matter Expert for the application/domain concerned: Create and document good requirements specifications to the supplier together with Business, and validate designs and solutions.
* Control and follow-up activities and deliverables according to the sourcing contracts
* Lead and participate in investigations and pre-studies driven by needed changes (both from business and IT, Maintenance and New Development), as business analyst and/or as project manager and/or as test manager/lead

Required qualifications

* Master's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience, at least 5 years' experience within relevant field
* Prior experience in managing IT applications
* The ability to use, understand and interpret the best practice, policies and procedures to ensure adherence, to project framework
* Skilled in gathering business requirements from business processes to appropriate project framework documents
* Basic project and test management skills
* General knowledge of application architectural analysis and design is meritorious

Personal qualities

* Self-motivated, innovative, with a strong driving force, result oriented
* Ability to define specific solutions within an abstract environment, structured and analytical
* Good organization and time management skills
* Good business acumen and communication skills . Flexible and open-minded
* Service oriented with a keen interest in the Business and applications concerned, acting as an IT partner in the Business operational development for both minor and major change initiatives.
* Enjoys working in a global organization
* Interest and drive to challenge traditional ways-of-working.

About Volvo Car Group
The future belongs to those who are empowered by a great idea and have the ability to carry it out. At Volvo Car Group, our vision is clear: "To be the world's most progressive and desired luxury car brand" by simplifying people's lives. We have bold targets when it comes to innovation, sales and customer satisfaction and to make this happen, we need talented people onboard. People with passion, energy, business sense and the drive to innovate. People that want to create the next generation Volvo cars in a global, dynamic and respectful environment. We will support you to reach your full potential. Join us on this exciting journey into the future.

Contact
In this recruitment process, we are collaborating with Randstad Sourceright. If you have any questions regarding the position you are welcome to contact the responsible recruitment consultant Rebecka Simonsson by e-mail at rebecka.simonsson@randstadsourceright.se. Note that applications by e-mail will not be accepted.

Interviews will be held continuously. To apply, please register your profile and attach your application documents via the link below as soon as possible but no later than February 2nd, 2017.