Senior IT Solution Leader – PLM

Position Description
You will be working close to several engaged and kind teams in an international and multicultural environment and within a department developing our future IT solutions in the Virtual products lifecycle management area.
Are you interested in digitalization, the latest technology and an organization that cares about its employees? Do you want to work with a bunch of incredibly driven, passionate, and skilled people? Great! Volvo Group is now looking for an experienced Solution Leader within the virtual lifecycle management domain.
Virtual Lifecycle Management solutions covers CAD, Virtual Product lifecycle management (PLM), Augmented and Virtual reality applications. The solutions are a key enabler to achieve engineering efficiency, virtual trust, and the digital twin capabilities across the Volvo Group.


THIS IS US, YOUR NEW COLLEAGUES
Volvo are driving several exciting transformation projects and initiatives to digitalize our business processes and leverage the value of data and become a fully data-driven company. The Department of Core Platform Area PLM & PDM are working to increase efficiency through our current set of digital and IT solutions.
Our existing IT solutions comprises of a mix of varied technologies like Microsoft, Java, and Commercial Off the shelf (COTS) IT solutions and SaaS solutions from CAD and PLM vendors where PTC and Windchill is the PLM backbone. We are now starting up a heavy investment to transform and modernize our overall IT architecture and to further increasing the use of our PLM capabilities to build a modern digital collaboration platform to increase RnD Efficiency.
We are supporting the Volvo Group’s Digital ambitions to become a fully agile, data-driven company, and we are building the foundations for the virtual trust, supported by improved use of digital twins, i.e the digital data representing a physical object as well as an improved digital thread, the integrated view of physical products’ digital data through it’s lifecycle.


Role Description Your Mission:
We look for a Solution Leader in the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) area
We are now looking for an IT Solution Leader to our PLM Core team in Sweden and will be the IT Product Owner, responsible for the PLM foundation in PTC Windchill.
Since you are part of a global unit, with global responsibilities, you will need to actively cooperate with various stakeholders and navigate with ease in a multi-cultural environment.


Role mission & context
As Solution Leader you will be driving key user networks to collect business requirements and needs from various stakeholders. You will be working in an agile setup and work close together with business representatives and our IT delivery teams to understand the needs and build a common roadmap and backlog for the PLM domain together with other stakeholders in the organisation.
The PLM portfolio handles the main systems that manages Product Lifecyle Management for the Volvo group. We have IT representation in Bangalore, Lyon, Göteborg and Greensboro.
We have started a PLM journey, shaping Volvo’s new way of working within the PLM/VM area. We are facing a very challenging and exciting period as we are about to shape the future IT landscape.


Wanted Profile
As IT Solution Leader you will be part of an environment that embrace change and trust. You will be part of creating a good team spirit and a fun place to work that appeals others to join the team and by that the results will follow. You have proven experience in Product Development and/or Product Lifecycle Management and are driven to improve the day-to-day experience for our PLM tool users.
You are used to communicate with different stakeholders in different levels in an organization since the delivery is touch the day-to-day operation on many levels.
You will be the spider in the web and be the main point of contact with an understanding of the activities ongoing and lead the IT Delivery Teams in a common direction.
Engineering Mechanical engineering or similar is a merit.
Experience of agile way of working is a strength.
Fluent in English.


We can offer you:
An attractive working environment where you will get an opportunity to work together with highly skilled colleagues in a global environment
An opportunity to work with the core applications for the PLM tools
To work with exciting techniques and development practices in a complex technical environment
To grow your competence both within IT as well as the automotive domain
You will work in close collaboration with our customers/users, suppliers and development team

Together we are delivering cutting edge solutions and services which drive profitability and growth. You will be part of an organization where continues improvements and fulfillment of business value is vital. We are expected to deliver a state-of-the-art solution for a stable and effective Product development environment, to develop the solutions in order to increase the efficiency for our stakeholders. We work closely together between the delivery teams within our Solution Center in a global environment.


Location is Gothenburg.


For more information please contact:
Andreas Bergstrand, Delivery Manager, +46 76 5535804


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