Automation Transformation Leader - Commercial Operations

Who are we?
Everything we do starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones and the people around them.

Let's create the future together.
At Volvo Cars, we believe that being curious and truly committed to understanding people is the key to future success. We are people who care about other people, working together to create new technologies and innovations for safe, sustainable and convenient mobility. Want to join us?

What we offer?
You will be a part of the global Intelligent Automation team & our Intelligent Automation Sweden Hub. This role gives you a possibility to work in an environment that is dynamic, challenging and allows for professional as well as personal development. Since we are a growing organization, you have a great opportunity to be part of our journey, as we expand our usage of Intelligent Automation. We offer a culture where we are curious, where we create together and where we make the difference – every single day.

About the position
As an Automation Transformation Leader – Intelligent Automation (RPA/AI) you will be the driver of Automation initiatives with focus on our Commercial Operations area including our direct-to-consumer solutions. You will enable our direct-to-consumer business teams to understand, utilize, build and scale the intelligent automation solutions. As part of the Automation Transformation team you will collaborate with team members to drive engagement and demand to our development teams. The Intelligent Automation team at Volvo Cars was founded in 2017 and have scaled to a global organisation collaborating across our entire company. You will be a part of our Global Intelligent Automation organisation, with hubs across the world.

The work includes both Business Analysis, Business Transformation projects, Solution Design, Innovation of new concepts and training activities in the automation landscape. Your tools will include but are not limited to, Blue Prism (RPA), Microsoft Power Platform (Power Virtual Agent, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Apps).

You will be a key player in this design phase and will have a say in the entire automation lifecycle. As part of our agile way of working you will also have a close dialog with other development teams at Volvo Cars. There will be significant interaction and close cooperation across all areas within Volvo Cars.

What you'll do
You will design the future automation solutions for our company across all our business units. Automating everything from how we sell, deliver, invoice, service and support our cars.

With this role, you will get the opportunity to work with our business processes from start to finish and work on process improvement with automation in mind. Every 10 weeks we have a special 2-week innovation sprint where all members of our Intelligent Automation team collaborate on new innovations.
Trainings and competence development are high on our agenda and great opportunities in personal development are offered. You will also keep track of technical trends, latest news, and external benchmark to ensure best in class automation is delivered. It is your responsibility to participate in operational development and improvement projects.

You and your skills 
In order to succeed in this role we see that you have 2+ years of automation transformation/ digital transformation experience and a relevant university degree. You have experience of using various automation tools and it is important that you have experience of Agile / Scrum / SAFe. Apart from that we also need you to be fluent in English both written and spoken.

Good analytical, negotiation and coommunication skills are a crucial part of this role. You have the ability to lead, influence and plan operations and activities and be service minded at the same time. In this role you will need to be able to drive and create commitment and therefore it is also important to have high integrity and a change management mind-set. 

How to learn more and apply
Does this sound like your next challenge? We want your application via the link provided. Please note that due to GDPR, we can’t accept applications via email.
For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Senior Tech Recruiter Noopur Thatte, noopur.thatte@volvocars.com

Who are we?
Everything we do starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones and the people around them.