Director Innovation and Data Analytics

We are Hiring a Sounding board and Leader of Innovation and Data Analytics to Volvo Group!
Imagine yourself on the way to work, a regular Wednesday morning. As you pass the city and the fields and look out; you see a Truck, a Construction Machine and a Bus. All with the Volvo Brand. When looking at the driver in one of the Buses you pass, you realize that you can see how much these persons loves their vehicle, in the way their eyes spark and from their facial expressions. You can also see the satisfaction amongst the passengers – someone is sleeping, someone is looking out the window relaxing, and someone is talking in the phone, without needing to raise their voice, as the bus is electric and so quiet. As you look at these people and see their positive feelings, you feel proud. You feel proud since you are a part of building these customer experiences. You are doing it through creating new and advanced solutions for insights on perceived customer satisfaction in combination with future technologies,based on data and analytics!


We would now like to give you the possibility to make this imagination and pride your reality.Come and join us as aDirector Innovation and Data Analytics!


We at Volvo Group are constantly moving and changing to be one step ahead in the technology journey. Within Volvo Group Trucks Technology, we are adapting and challenging ourselves to be able to develop new breakthrough transport solutions. We strive to add value and the best solutions to our customers while being energy efficient, sustainable, and safer for society. That is why we at the team Innovation and Data Analytics (IDA) now are looking for you, our new colleague, and theLeader of this high performing team.


In our team, we are driven by curiosity and it is important for us to think outside of the box and try new things to be able to best succeed. We are driven by passion for what we do, and we also value great communication – as the Director you both act as a mentor and coach for your own team (20 members) on how to evolve with our Agile implementation, our ambition to create mastery in data insights, Analytic solutions and training our 250 strong workforce in Quality and Customer Satisfaction that is our larger context. Above this you are also a sounding board and transformation engine for your peers in the Management team in Quality and Customer Satisfaction and a given expert supporting the Vice President of the function on subject matter topics for Digitalization and Analytics as well as Data.
Lastly, we strongly believe that a helpful team who is passionate about what they do is the key for an effective and good work environment, you support your team to become independent and a recognized source of analytics competence value.


This is how you can make an impact
In your role as the director of Innovation and Data Analytics you are daily encouraging and inspiring an already well implemented team, to becoming even more high performing and excelling in development of Advanced Analytics solutions, you are collaborating with your surroundings in Quality and Customer Satisfaction, the larger analytics community of GTT and Volvo Group to make sure we benefit from sharing knowledge and solutions. We believe you feel passionate about:
Improving and Coaching your team in their Agile development, together with your product owner, manage release trains, backlogs and create Analytics Roadmaps
Inspire, Identify, and Drive opportunities together with your peers for business value enhancement through implementation and usage of Analytics/Advanced Analytics and AI
Be the Digitalization engine in the Management team and drive for transformation with your MT Peers and Vice President
Participate and lead cross collaboration and technology shifts with other functions and groups in Volvo Group
Identify, create, and drive Objectives and Key result for your own deliveries and partly owner of those committed in the Management Team

Who are you?
Since we don’t know you yet, we might not have everything right about who we think you are and bring with you. If we would guess, we think you are a person with passion for Analytics and Data Science with previous experiences leading Agile set ups. We also believe you enjoy identifying opportunities from theory and translating them into attractive Analytics/Advanced Analytics or AI solutions through your team. We also believe it is good to be curious to evolve the area of Analytics within Quality & Customer Satisfaction as well as defining what we can deliver as business value, as our mission includes both. You are also experienced enough to understand what is and what is not analytics and how to avoid building technical dead ends or resource intensive maintenance. You do posses integrity and communication skills to explain what consequences different initiatives required would lead up to.
What we do know about you for sure, is that you need to be a team player with eagerness to try and change through collaboration, co-operation, sharing insights, solutions, and ideas.


Other criteria for the position are:
University degree in Data Science, Statistics or Computer Science or close to these areas
Previous Leadership experience 5-10yrs
Experience of Coaching and Mentoring Higher leadership levels in Analytics and digital transformation
Previous experience of driving Analytics Deliveries in Agile setups
Previous experience of Analytics Technology stacks both platforms such as Azure, AWS and open sources technology
High interest and preferred previous experience of Advanced Analytics/AI and automation and fundamental pieces to make them successful
Experience to lead from a distance (the team is distributed in Asia, Europe and America)
People oriented, understanding how to deliver through others and create a momentum of eagerness to get going
Preferred Business experiences are Quality, Automotive or other highly distributed data intensive companies

Curious and want to know more about the role? Please contact me! I look forward to getting to know you better:


Henrik Molin, Vice President Quality and Customer Satisfaction +46739029343
Current position holder Tanja Schou +46739029643


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