Digital Product & Portfolio Manager Commercial offer & sales solutions

Volvo Penta is a global, world-leading supplier of complete power solutions for marine and industrial applications. Our comprehensive, reliable solutions have helped our customers all over the world increase their productivity and performance – in every detail. By continuously improving our offer, through innovative, sustainable power solutions and the strengths and expertise of the entire Volvo Group, we redefine premium for the modern market.
Volvo Penta wants our customers to perceive premium quality from the moment they first become aware of us, through the sales and delivery process, and throughout owning and operating our products. To support these objectives, Volvo Penta will in the coming years make significant efforts in fossilize free power solutions, digitalization and connected services.
An important part of the digitalization will be carried by the ability to manage our product offer configurations for solutions and services and provide great tools for selling the right solution to our customers.
Volvo Penta Digital & IT is a global function responsible for strategy, portfolio management, Digital Solution Management, Information Management and Enterprise architecture. The Digital & IT function is an active part in developing and shaping the Volvo Penta processes and Digital solutions to meet current and future business needs.


Position description
Volvo Penta Digital & IT is now hiring a Digital Product & Portfolio Manager with the mission to define and drive our tactical plan for making it easy to configure and describe our commercial offer – and make it easy for our customers and sales personnel to define and order the best solution.


As Digital Product & Portfolio Manager, you will be an important part of developing Volvo Penta’s core digital capabilities for commercial offer configuration management, product structure master data, total cost of ownership calculation, feature selection simulations and other sales support tools.
You will work in a cross-functional network together with our domain architects, business analysts and colleagues from Business Unit Marine, Business Unit Industry, Product Development, Global Parts & Services and Volvo Group Digital & IT.


The Digital Portfolio Manager is a global functional role, reporting to the Director, Total offer & Sales solutions, Digital & IT.


The position is based at Volvo Penta headquarters in Göteborg, Sweden.
Occasional travel outside Gothenburg is expected.


Core Responsibilities
Manage the End-to-End capabilities and IT solutions life cycle to meet the needs for commercial offer configuration management and sales solutions
Lead the work to identify and translate business needs and opportunities into development roadmaps, project proposals and operational development proposals
Anchor and drive the tactical implementation of the roadmaps, including budget responsibility
In close collaboration with your stakeholders, Identify and plan for resource & competence capacity needs to support development roadmaps

Experience Required
Experience from product offer configuration solutions and processes in the context of Configuration management, Offer documentation and Sales support
Minimum 5 years of professional experience from working with IT solution development in a complex business environment

Minimum Education Required
Academic degree on master level in Business Administration, Engineering or other relevant for this position


COMPETENCIES & SKILLS
Excellent understanding on how to leverage Information Technology in combination with product digitalization to develop services, business processes and capabilities
A customer, innovation and business development oriented mind-set
Team-player with strong interpersonal and leadership skills: ability to effectively collaborate, network and interface with a wide variety of colleagues on different levels, across functions and regions
Excellent analytical and planning skills
Proven capacity to execute against targets, even when conditions are rapidly changing
Excellent listening, communication and presentation skills
Fluent in spoken and written English

In return we offer
… An opportunity to drive the development of Volvo Penta’s customer offering, business processes and solutions with a true End-to-End and customer perspective.


You will be an important part of building the continued growth and success of an exciting, market-leading company. You will work in a team with highly skilled and passionate colleagues. This will give you an opportunity for career advancement and to develop professionally and personally. You will work in close collaboration with colleagues across the globe and deliver cutting-edge solutions and services, which drive our customer satisfaction, market success, profitability and growth.


For additional information, please contact
Rickard Eriksson, Director, Total offer & Sales solutions, Digital & IT
Phone + 46 31-3221386


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