Digital Product Owner

"Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to driving prosperity and shaping the future landscape through sustainable transport, mobility, and infrastructure solutions. By offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity.

Our headquarters are in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Group shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm."

This will be you - your new challenge
Our department PartsLINQ Warehouse within Digital and IT has the accountability to provide Digital Capabilities for Volvo Aftermarket logistics. We provide and facilitate a secure pathway for Lean logistics in Volvo’s distribution Centers around the world. 
As a Digital Product Owner you will work closely with Digital Product Managers, engineers, UX designers, data analysts and operational stakeholders, to continuously improve our products and the user experience. We are an environment where ideas, thoughts and opinions can be shared. We have clear common ambitions, and we create the future together. 

This is how you could make an impact

As the Digital Product Owner, you will take ownership of specific part of the digital product (for one or more smart business layer end-customer services) and as a champion of the product vision and your team, you will turn the roadmap into deliverables and secure the alignment with the overall strategy and product vision. You are a member of a stable team and are responsible for managing the team backlog prioritization and delivery. 

Here are some of your responsibilities: 

•    Support the team in creating product specifications in the form of user stories with acceptance criteria, to ensure the stable team have all required information to deliver the desired outcome. 
•    Lead the product discovery process for assigned capabilities (including hypothesis generation, requirements gathering, design, and scoping) in collaboration with the digital product manager, UX designers, data analysts, and engineers. 
•    Assist the Digital Product Manager in ensuring that the product development backlog is properly organized, prioritized, and kept up-to-date 
•    Contribute to the product vision, and champion this vision with stakeholders and the stable team 
•    Ensure that proper analytics, tracking and data collection mechanisms are in place to understand user behaviors and/or product performance 
•    Provide the necessary product support to the stable team as may be required to aid their delivery 
•    Work with other parts of the organization as and when necessary to ensure the expected outcomes are achieved and measured
•    Own team development to secure the team long and short term plans for proper capacity and competence
•    Continuously review the live product to identify areas for improvement and any deviations from the expected experience
•    Learn the market & customer needs through data and customer 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 or equivalent, and experience from leading functionally, preferably within IT management.  
You need to have a deep understanding of the cost, risks and compliance requirements associated with the development and operations in order to assess the benefit and value.  

Qualifications:
•    Proven experience as a previous Product Owner preferably from Digital in Automotive/Logistics sector
•    Strong understanding of software development processes and methodologies, including Agile and Scrum
•    Excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration skills
•    Experience working with cross-functional teams
•    Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
•    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
•    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field
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. 
If you are passionate about product development and want to join a dynamic team that is making a difference for Volvo Groups different R&D teams, we encourage you to apply.

Are you curious and have some questions? Contact us! 
Patrik Gross, patrik.gross@volvo.com
Union Representatives:
Akademikerna – Therese Koggdal, +46 470 387855 
Unionen - Lajla Dahlsjö +46 31 3224575 
Ledarna – Carina Sachade, +46 73 9024083