Business Partner (Solution Partner) - Data & Analytics

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

Volvo Cars Data and Analytics Core - let’s introduce ourselves
The mission for the D&A Core team is to transform the data ecosystem to empower our colleagues with trusted data, which supports the Volvo Cars Data Vision of powering innovation and every decision with trusted data.

To support this mission, D&A Core has 5 core areas: Strategy & Transformation, Solution Partners & Analytics, Platforms, Architecture, and Data Governance, working to provide what is required to enable data and analytics teams across the organisation to deliver value from data, whilst creating a culture of collaboration and data excellence.

This role sits in the Solution Partners and Analytics team, whose role is to empower, support and accelerate our business area hubs and drive our aim to have enterprise data and analytics products that make it easy to work with trusted data at Volvo Cars.

What you’ll do

You’ll be a great partner to other Volvo Cars business units and local data teams, ensuring they are building their operations based on access to high quality and trusted data from across Volvo Cars.  You’ll work across a few areas of Volvo Cars, prioritising the organisation’s strategic products.  You’ll work with your Solution Partner colleagues to adopt and lead a cross-business function data product development process, to plan and prioritise investment and change.
This role requires strategy development, a commercial and consultative mindset, and a love for the details. We focus on understanding the strategies and requirements of each business function (and Volvo Cars as a whole) and then advising and supporting them, and their data teams, in how to share, access and leverage data to conceive, design, test and then use analytical data products (such as BI and AI) to deliver clear business value.   You’ll enable and accelerate the delivery of value to business areas by identifying opportunities to leverage a central pool of technical, data and product expertise.  
You’ll be ready to jump in when something needs to be done and you’ll thrive when faced with knotty problems that take a lot of collaboration to solve.
What you’ll bring
 You are an experienced (8+ years) leader with experience influencing other leaders and managing cross-functional teams.  You also have a deep understanding of how to build and run data and analytics products, with a documented history of success.   You have worked with data over the years and understand how to build great analytical data products that the customers for them love. 
Your bread and butter are collaborating with Business, Data and Engineering peers both within and outside of different domains to drive data product strategy at scale, with great communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences. You are experienced with cross-functional leadership to the degree that you can plan and collaborate with members of a leadership team that includes multiple roles and backgrounds.
You have broad technical breadth across the full data and analytics lifecycle. You have got a strong intuition based on a broad range of experiences, but you take a critical mind even to your own ideas and are ready to be challenged by colleagues of all levels You are motivated by a desire for quality but take a pragmatic approach to achieving your goals.
You also have

•    Advanced English communication skills.
•    Experience working with highly visible projects in an international environment.
•    Experience with large transformational and change management journeys.
•    Experience working with analytics, understanding the data and what gaps require actions.
•    Business leader with experience from industries with a high focus on customer experience.

Want to know more?

We’d love to receive and review your application. We welcome you to apply in English as soon as possible, we will go through applications on a regular basis.  Please apply through the provided link. Applications submitted via email will not be retained or taken into consideration. Once you receive a confirmation email from the system, your application will be acknowledged.

If you want more information about the role and its responsibilities or simply learn a bit more about the team, please reach out to the hiring manager at christina.finlay@volvocars.com or the recruiter at lovisa.ermell@volvocars.com. 

Location for this position is in Sweden, ideally Gothenburg.