Quality and Lean Transformation Coach – CPA Supply Chain & Purchasing

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 Technology

Technology is a new function within Volvo Group Digital & IT with a big stake in the Group’s digital transformation. The Core Platform Area (CPA) organization within Technology 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.

This is how you could make an impact

As the Quality and Lean transformation coach for CPA Supply Chain & Purchasing, you will be part of the CPA Supply Chain & Purchasing Management Team and report to the Head of CPA Supply Chain & Purchasing.
These are the main expectations on you:
Develop a Agile and quality culture and mind-set and lead the journey towards zero disturbances due to IT!
Secure a Lean and Continuous Improvement mind set in everything we do (Perform and Transform) and coach for excellent execution towards objectives.
Develop performance reporting and dashboards for CPA Supply Chain & Purchasing to be aggregated into a comprehensive Technology performance report.
Establish a network within Technology that works together with others Agile, Quality and lean transformation coaches to communalize, share best practices, experiences and to align
Secure world class Quality processes and alignment in the way of working on Quality between the IT and business communities
Coach the delivery organization to stay up to date regarding security and compliance
Represents the CPA Supply Chain & Purchasing in various networks within the context of Perform & Transform



Who are you?
You are at ease with uncertainties, your ability to listen and facilitate discussion is key to identify the right issues and challenges to focus on. Your experience of empiricism and continuous improvement iterative approach (Agile & VPS) enables you to on-board all team members so that they trust your framework and focus on value creation.
You are solution-oriented and persistent to secure the team keeps a high-energy level, stays focused and gets back-on-track when unforeseen events deserve immediate attention.
Additionally, you are a passionate believer in continuous learning and challenging the “status quo”. You have proven skills in cross-functional collaboration and thrive in managing, facilitating, and enabling both the perform and the transform dimension of the job.
Are we a good match?
In your role as cross-functional leader, 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.