Head of Foundational Products & Chapters

Head of Foundational Products & Chapters


Join us on our transformation journey to the digital future


At Group IT, we have a clear ambition to enable value creation at scale for the Volvo Group. With a new product centric operating model and digital technologies, we will produce digital offerings that are profitable, scalable, and differentiated. With Group IT, you will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals, who learn continuously and embrace change to stay ahead. We have a very important role to play in reaching the Volvo Group ambitions for 2030. Do you want to be part of our transformation journey towards becoming the digital capability of the Group? The time is now.


This will be us - your colleagues within Technology


Technology is a new function within Group IT with a big stake in the Group’s digital transformation. We will modernize Volvo’s core digital backbone making it a platform for digital products. Our Foundational IT products are used by digital product teams and enable them and their products to outperform Volvo’s competitors. Our digital talents develop capabilities and digital technologies to improve business performance and create value for the Group with speed and at scale.


We collaborate with other parts of the organization, both in Group IT, with TD/BAs and Group Functions. We foster an environment where ideas, thoughts and opinions can be shared. We are team players with clear common ambitions, and we win together!


This is how you could make an impact


As Head of Foundational Products & Chapters, you will be key in the execution of the Digital & IT Strategy. I In this role, you will be an important contributor to the transformation of the IT landscape in Volvo Group. You will drive the shift to a modern, agile and cost-efficient delivery organization. You will be part of the Technology Management Team and report to Maria Lundberg, Head of Technology. These are the main expectations on you:
Nurture digital talents focused on DevSecOps, API & Integration, Cloud and Development Platforms
Create an organization that is curious and hungry to learn; that takes pride in understanding the market and knows what good looks like
Lead the team to create common platforms and capabilities to be used by products and development teams cross the Digital & IT community
Inspire adoption of foundational products across the Volvo Group, coach the organization to reuse
Build solid relationships with vendors and partners
Demonstrate an inclusive leadership, and you communicate at ease with your team of approximately 100 dedicated and highly skilled professionals located in Europe, Asia and the Americas



Who are you?


We believe you want to take your career to the next level, working with amazing people around the world. To be successful in this position, you have a university degree or equivalent and several years of experience from leading leaders’ positions. You have extensive experience from IT management. We believe that this role requires solid communication skills and a passion for building and motivating world class, high performing teams.


In addition to this you are a passionate believer in continuous learning. You will need to have proven skills in cross-functional collaboration and thrive in managing, foster and enable both the perform and the transform angles of the job.


Are we a good match?


In the Volvo Group, we have defined leadership as a set of observable behaviors that leaders exercise to achieve alignment towards our vision 2030, to better execute our strategy and for the Group to continuously renew itself in order to “Perform and Transform”. To reach our vision and deliver on our strong commitments, we need to pair “the will” with “the skill”. That is why our leadership principles are behavioral based. The principles Lead with Passion, Perform with Purpose and Transform with Vision are our values in action, and they will strengthen our culture.


In your role as Line Manager, we expect you to develop your area of responsibility by having the ability to define the right priorities based on a customer centric mindset. We encourage the ability to drive business forward and act upon opportunities and ideas and transform them into value (financial, cultural, or social) for others. We create an environment where of continuously improvements and learning maximize the outcome of our work.


To achieve our goals, we collaborate within and across teams. We create a sense of unity and trust by nurturing open dialogues and collective work. We build a work environment where diversity in expertise, opinion and culture is valued.