Head of Digital Product Area - Transport Operations

Volvo Autonomous Solutions


The future belongs to those who are inspired by great ideas and can carry them out. We are ready to move into the future, defining and driving the development of the future autonomous transport solutions for the Volvo Group. Now we are looking for a team player with a passion for digital technology, wish to apply it for the good of our business and a desire to disrupt the transport infrastructure industries.


Ready to shape tomorrow’s society together with us?


Volvo Autonomous Solutions (V.A.S) is a new entity within the Volvo Group with the mission to offer transport solutions never seen before. We accelerate the development, commercialization, and sales of autonomous transport solutions, focusing on defined segments for the on- and off-road space. With entirely new business models and highly advanced technology we will meet and exceed expectations from customers, and contributing to a society that we want to live in. There’s about 320 of us and together we form a team that is stronger than the sum of its parts - and is ready to tackle the big challenges we have ahead of us.
This is what we do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TOCGC6Uuc


This is us, your new colleagues?


The Digital and IT team is a new and growing team at Volvo Autonomous Solutions. Our mission is to enable the digital side of V.A.S. to transform from an internal start-up to a scale up. We work with our customers and partners to enable digital business models. We facilitate the work inside V.A.S. to secure that we have the right tools for the job and to succeed we fluently mix working with ambitious strategies as well as with hands on implementations.


Who are you?


As we don’t know you yet, we might not have everything right about your background. But when we imagine who you are we believe that you speak the language of logistics and transportation, and that you seek the adventure that comes with building a new business. As a foundation, you have a relevant University degree or equivalent professional experience. You have a track record of IT development projects or know how to set-up an agile delivery, and fluently work with partners and teams across the globe.


Additional competences are:
A customer, innovation and business development-oriented mind-set
Deep interest and knowledge in the transportation industry. Experience from implementation of TMS solutions and customer integrations is beneficial.
Good interpersonal and leadership skills: ability to effectively collaborate, network and interface with a wide variety of colleagues on different levels, across functions and geographies
Good analytical and planning skills and proven capacity to execute against targets



What will you do?


You will build up V.A.S. digital capabilities around Transport Operations, in tight collaboration with the functions in V.A.S., our partners and customers. When trucks and machines drive autonomously, the processes around them have to be highly digitalized, automated and streamlined, to support the transformation of the transportation industry and fully leverage the opportunities of autonomous driving.


The digital product area Transport operations cover the capabilities that V.A.S. needs to run our transport operations with excellence. That involves driving the innovation within the transport industry with cutting edge technology and ways of working to become the leader within this segment.


You will define vision, strategy and roadmap for the digital product area, aligned with needs from V.A.S. targeted segments and line organizations. Since this is a new area for V.A.S. and the Volvo Group you will work build up the delivery capacity needed to support these solutions.


Additional responsibilities are:
Plan and lead development activities (waterfall, agile or hybrid) for the product area
Manage interface with Group D&IT, VGCS and V.A.S. IT partners
Accountable for cost and quality of the digital products



The location for this position is flexible across V.A.S. sites, but with a preference for Gothenburg - Sweden. We offer possibilities for a flexible hybrid work model, but are not looking for candidates that are 100% remote.


We are actively working to establish teams that will take maximum advantage of the strength inherent to differences in knowledge, experience, age, gender, and nationality, among others. We find that well balanced work teams increase group dynamics, creativity, and new approaches to solutions.


Curious and want to know more about the role? Please contact me:
Mattias Lindström, Head of Digital & IT. Phone: +46 739 02 42 58


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