Group Manager

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 believe in motivation through why and what? Is this your mindset and your natural way of working as a leader? Then this is for you!

With many initiatives from business in the pipeline, we need to grow our awesome team by one more servant leader and are now looking for a motivated Group Manager for Collaboration Layer.

Our responsibility in the Scania Collaboration Layer is towards R&D Users in the TRATON group community. We are on an exciting journey, creating the processes and tools for collaboration between the brands in the TRATON group with up to date tools and techniques.

Your tasks as a Group Manager of Collaboration Layer are
• A servant leader who is motivating, involving and developing diverse team. Experience in recruiting the diverse people with the will to learn about Scania, its products and culture.
• Creating prerequisites for improvement/development within the specific area of DevOps, AWS/Java development. Data Science/Machine Learning is a big plus.
• Creating a common strategy together with your colleagues in both IT and business, inspiring your teams to execute in the right direction.
• Leading cross-functional assignments and collaborating with other value streams with an agile mindset and enabling your teams to deliver value to our end users fast. Also, you should have Product focus over Project focus.
• Cooperating with your tandem at the different brands and being a part of the multi-brand international management team.

Who we believe you are
You are a humble, engaged and an experienced servant leader with a passion to recruit, develop a group of diverse 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 possibilities.

You involve your employees when creating business plans with focus and energy. You have the courage to test new ideas in short iterations. You continuously change based upon the outcome and you see creativity and enthusiasm as a great way of working.

Building great agile development teams and working in a network organization comes natural to you.

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 that the reality of IT and the experience of the users matters. You have a strong commitment to our mission to support the business with superior IT solutions.

Our team and what we offer
We offer you an interesting, fun, challenging and developing journey together with engaged colleagues in the teams within the group. You will also interact closely with the members of the cross functional management team within the Collaboration area.

The work environment is international and your colleagues and stakeholders are representing different nationalities and companies. In this exciting and dynamic environment 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 Gunpreet Kaur at gunpreet.kaur@scania.com.

Timeline and process
Kindly apply as soon as possible, but no later than 13th of September 2022, since selection and interviews might be held throughout the whole application period. Please note that a background check might be considered 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.