Forward thinking, servant Senior Manager to Product Development IT

Scania is currently undergoing an exciting transformation from a traditional truck manufacturer to a provider of complete sustainable transport solutions. IT is a crucial part of this transformation as Scania’s success is depending on flexible and efficient IT solutions that support current and future business requirements.

The section PDM OAS Development is a part of the Product Development IT department at Scania IT and consists of around 40 dedicated co-workers. Together we provide Scania with the platform for product description, change management and configuration. A platform that provides product data companywide to all processes.

We are now looking for an inspiring, servant and forward thinking Senior Manager to successfully support this section towards improved value creation with focus on agile ways of working.

Your Responsibilities

Your role as a Section Manager includes to involve, develop and support the employees and group managers within the section by practicing a servant leadership.

You create and maintain a common strategy together with your colleagues within IT and business, inspiring your section to implement in the right direction.

Together with business you develop the way of working in your joint value stream using an agile mindset enabling the teams to deliver business value to our end users even faster. Furthermore, you have courage to challenge existing ways of working and you are creative in how you propose trying these ideas out.

You will play an important and active role in the IR department management team as well as in the joint management team with business.

Your Profile

You are a humble, engaged and experienced leader with a passion to develop people and organizations. You strive for growing together with your teams and you believe in a modern organizational culture where you value people and their abilities.

You have strong stakeholder management skills and understand the business that we are supporting. Your leadership abilities enables you to build networks thus facilitating the cooperation across functions.

You support the creation of agile work methods and communication flows for cross-functional teams and have the courage to initiate changes in them.

You understand that knowledge is crucial for our business and thus you continuously increase your own knowledge while creating a climate where the employees can increase and nourish their competence.

You have an IT education at university level and/or equivalent experience which has given you the ability to understand the potential in software and data. You have a strong commitment to our mission to support the business with superior IT solutions.

You understand modern software development and the organisational culture that is needed to be successful in this area today.

We offer

We offer you an interesting, fun, challenging and developing journey together with engaged colleagues within IT and business . You will interact with stakeholders from many parts of Scania while supporting them with creative solutions.

In addition to an exciting career, we offer a competitive salary and other benefits, such as a company car that you can privately lease, performance bonuses, a pension plan, flexible working hours, lunch at reduced prices and much more.  

For more information

Please contact Lennart Borg (IT Director, Product Development IT), +46 (0)8-553 81078 or Enrico Richiello (Scania IT Recruiter) , +46 (0)70-0856 227

Application

Your application should include a CV and cover letter. Selections will be made throughout the application period.
Please apply as soon as possible and no later than December 15th 2020. Job ID 20203403.