Group Manager to Testing, Design and R&D Process Support

Servant leadership is what we believe will lead our teams to success. A servant leader at Scania IT directs and motivates through why and what, lets goals be set by individuals and teams and involves everyone in decision making. A servant leader sets up business objectives and key results based on prototyping and experimentation and interacts face to face. Transparency is promoted and information is made available. Ideas are embraced and the people are loved and trusted.

Is this your mindset and your natural way of working as a leader? Then you might be right Group Manager one we are looking for!

Your role and responsibilities

In this role you will work tightly together with R&D in our cross functional value streams. 


• You will lead development teams developing solutions to enable R&D to succeed in the areas of Design, Testing and Legal Demands. You will also support your development teams, help them grow, remove hinders and enable them to become high performing.
• You engage your teams to get in contact with their end-users to understand their needs.
• Building trust and relations within the whole value stream and acts as your teams ambassador across all of Scania will come natural to you
• Creating a team climate where innovation is a given factor and where ways of working can develop and continuously improve will also fall under your responsibilities
• You will also motivate, engage and develop people in your teams
• You will also drive the development to ensure great collaboration and efficient ways of working between your local and distributed, diversified teams.

You will be a member of the section’s leadership. 

Your profile
You are a strong ambassador of empowering agile software development with focus on creating value for the end-user is your passion!

You live and agree with these statements picked from our Culture


• Leadership instead of Management – Because success is all about growing others
• Diversity – We respect different opinions and perspectives. They are source of great ideas
• Fun – We take having fun and being happy very seriously at work
• Our Products – We understand our end-user and fulfil needs with a solution-oriented spirit
• Elimination of Waste – Always challenge stupid things everywhere!
• You are a humble, engaged and experienced leader with a passion to develop people and create high performing development teams.

You are keen to understand the challenges of our end-users and the products we develop.

You believe in team based work and encourage experiments. You love new ideas and try them out in short iterations to create learnings. You continuously adjust based upon the outcome and you appreciate creativity and enthusiasm.

You understand that knowledge is crucial for our business. Therefor you continuously learn and improve your own knowledge and create a climate where the people can grow and nourish their skills.

You have been part of the agile software development process so that you truly understand the challenges of a development team.

Preferably you have an IT education at university level and/or equivalent experience.

What’s in it for you
We offer you an interesting, fun, challenging and developing environment together with both engaged colleagues in the teams and in the section’s management team.

In addition to career and development opportunities, we can also offer Scania employees other benefits, such as a company car, performance bonuses, a pension, flexible working hours, lunch at reduced prices and much more. If you live in Stockholm, we offer a direct bus service between Stockholm and Södertälje, the Scania Job Express.

Additional information
Please contact recruiting Manager Mikael Pihlblad, mikael.pihlblad@scania.com or Talent Acquisition Specialist Daniel Ruja, daniel.ruja@scania.com.

Application
Your application includes a CV and cover letter. We handle applications ongoing.

Time line and process
Kindly apply as soon as possible, but no later than 17th of December 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.