Principal Advanced Workforce Analytics

Join us on our transformation journey to the digital future

At Volvo Group Digital & 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 Volvo Group Digital & 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 HR & OD

Human Resources and Organizational Development, HR & OD will play a vital role to guide and support Group Digital & IT through the digital transformation, as one of the biggest challenges in this journey is the transformation of our workforce competence, skills and capacity. It will require agile and efficient workforce analytics to develop a workforce strategy that capitalizes on our internal strengths and abilities, while at the same time fully leverages on global market opportunities.

The Strategic Workforce & Capacity Planning function is now searching for a Principal Advanced Workforce Analytics

In this role you will report to the Head of Strategic Workforce & Capacity Planning. This function covers the full circle from Workforce Strategy to Capacity Planning and Workforce Analytics. We are a small team with a reputation of being in the forefront in Volvo Group in putting workforce analytics in the context of the stakeholder to enable fact-based decision making. We now need to strengthen the team to reach the next level in our ambitions to support this digital transformation.


This is how you could make an impact


As Principal Advanced Workforce Analytics you will strengthen the analytics capability in the team. By developing the external market analytics area and performing advisory support to senior management, backed by fact based advanced analytics you:
secure Group Digital & IT make fact based decisions, taking the latest external conditions and trends into consideration
ensure that Strategic Workforce & Capacity Planning utilizes the state of the art tools and processes to be agile and efficient in WF Analytics and Planning
strengthen the advisory support by regularly assessing and presenting the most interesting and critical WF observations and recommendations for EMT and senior management to consider (e.g. monthly digest)

You will also play an active role in managing the reporting portfolio, safeguarding a one-stop-shop experience for users and securing access management and decommissioning of overlaps/unused reports.


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 need the ability to create engagement around shared visions and goals.


As a Principal Advanced Workforce Analytics, you will be exposed to senior management and can rely on several years of experience in senior stakeholder management. You have experience from leading/coordinating roles, such as Project Management or Team/Delivery Leader, and are used to drive initiatives with a cross-functional teams.


Additional qualifying experience and skills:
Strong analytical profile, with experience of merging and analyzing big data volumes
Knowledge of market leading analytics and reporting tools is meritorious
Power BI, Knime, Advance Excel (Power Query, Power Pivot)

You are a visionary that doesn´t hesitate to break old patterns and see opportunities. Furthermore, you have the proven ability to sell and transform those ideas via a structured and tangible action plan into reality.


You have a problem-solving mindset and the courage to take well evaluated risks. You have the courage to challenge stakeholders when necessary.


Finally, it´s important for you to have fun at work!


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 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.

To achieve our goals, we collaborate within and across teams. We empower others to grow and 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.


The location for the position is flexible but limited to our sites in: Eskilstuna, Sweden - Gothenburg, Sweden & Wroclaw, Poland.


Are you curious and would like to know more? Call us!
Contacts:
Mikael Andersson, Head of Strategic Workforce & Capacity Planning, Group Digital & IT, +46 73 5585509
Staffan Palmer, Head of HR Sweden, Group Digital & IT, +46 73 5585417


We are happy to get your application. Last day for hearing from you is August 26th, application screening will be done continuously.


Kindly note that due to GDPR, we will not accept applications via mail. Please use our career site.