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 an efficient use of the power of software and data.

Do you want to be an active participant in driving Scania IT towards our 2025 strategy, objectives and financial targets? We need you who want to develop our business in line with our vision and strategy.

Are you the forward thinking, servant Senior Manager we are looking for?

The section Collaboration IT is a part of the Product Development IT department at Scania IT and consists of around 40 dedicated co-workers. Our responsibility is the Scania Collaboration Layer for R&D Users in the TRATON group community. We are in an exciting journey, creating the processes and tools for collaboration between the brands in the TRATON group with up to date tools and techniques.
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 Product Development 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.

What’s in it for you?
We offer you an interesting, fun, challenging and developing journey together with engaged colleagues within IT and business. The work environment is international and your colleagues and stakeholders are representing different nationalities and companies. In this exciting and dynamic surrounding you can influence the future IT landscape within the TRATON organization.

Scania has a competitive package of benefits, such as private lease of car, bonuses, flexible working hours and much more. Working from home is nowadays more a fact than a wish and Scania is one of the leading companies on the market that has implemented this approach.

More information
For questions regarding the position please contact recruiting manager Lennart Borg (IT Director, Product Development IT), lennart.borg@scania.com. For questions regarding the recruitment process, kindly contact Daniel Ruja, daniel.ruja@scania.com.

Time line and process
Kindly apply as soon as possible, but no later than 13th of October 2021, since selection and interviews might be held throughout the whole application period. Please note that a background check is considered a part of the recruitment process.

We are looking forward to your application!

Scania is a part of Traton Group and one of the world´s leading manufacturers of trucks and buses for heavy transport applications. Scania is also leading provider of industrial and marine engines. Service-related products account for a growing proportion of the company´s operations, assuring Scania customers of cost-effective transport solutions and maximum uptime. Scania also offers financial services.

Scania’s IT organisation is an integrated part of the company providing products and services to all business units worldwide. Based on deep Scania business knowledge and internal relations we balance in-house core competences and service production with services externally sourced and governed by us. We are around 1500 people and the majority is located in Sodertalje.