Senior Project Manager

Are you passionate about software development and creating value that makes a difference? Do you want to be at the center of Scania’s unique modular system, allowing Scania to offer an extremely wide portfolio of products using relatively few components and parts? Do you want to work in a multifaceted, complex, continually changing environment and take your skills to the next level? Then you are reading the right ad!

Our awesome Value Creation Team (VCT) is now looking for a Senior Project Manager to take on a big and exciting challenge in our SAFe-inspired organization. As part of our team, you will work in close cooperation with various parts of Scania, our sister companies, our product management team, and our development teams, always with the customer in focus. The person we are looking for understands both business needs and timing aspects of our most important initiatives and is ultimately responsible for driving and coordinating needed input and results.

The Product

OAS (Object And Structure tool) enables Scania’s famous modular approach when building vehicles by utilizing product data, structures, configuration capabilities, and support for Product Lifecycle Management. OAS supports multiple business areas and is used in everything from Research and Development to Sales and Marketing. The significance of OAS in the transformation to sustainable transport solutions is increasing - this is why we need you!

The Value Creation Team

The OAS/PDM VCT is our version of an Agile Release Train. The VCT consists of around 90 people – Product Owners, Business Analysts, Business & Solution Architects, Metadata Creators, Developers, Testers, and others. The day-to-day work is done in small teams made up of a mix of these competencies. You will work in a cross-functional capacity together with our teams as well as with teams and stakeholders from different parts of the organization.

What’s important to us?

We thrive when we can solve problems and produce results together, drawing on each other’s strengths and helping out if things don’t go as planned. Transparency, integrity, flexibility, and empathy are a few examples of values we live by.

What’s in it for you?

We offer you an interesting, fun, challenging, and developing journey with passionate colleagues in business and IT. Our Value Creation Team is involved in many of Scania’s strategic initiatives. The work environment is international, and your colleagues and stakeholders represent different nationalities and companies. In this exciting and dynamic setting, you can influence the future process and IT landscape within the TRATON Group.

Your work

• Lead complex IT- and business initiatives in a “Scaled Agile” context.
• Maintain a continuous dialogue with stakeholders in different business domains.
• Ensure that delivered solutions are synchronized and fulfill business needs.
• Drive pre-study taking into account processes, methods, and systems.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of our internal processes to further develop our ways of working.

Your profile

You should enjoy working in a diverse, agile, team-based environment with lean principles and a strong customer and user focus. You are a humble team player and have the ability to create a good working atmosphere for a diverse team while focusing on continuous deliveries. You are good at seeing the big picture as well as the details that matter most. You are also a good communicator, that uses your excellent communication and presentation skills to make meaningful contributions that leave a lasting impression.

We would also like that... 


• You have a university degree in IT or business management or an equivalent qualification.
• You have at least 5 years of work experience in a Senior Project Manager role.
• You have work experience in a strategic or operative PDM context.
• You have worked with product description methodology, product structure, or change management.
• You have worked with requirement management or analysis for processes and IT.
• You write and speak fluently in English. If you write and speak fluently in Swedish and German, it is a merit.

At Scania, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role!


We offer

We can offer you a dynamic workplace with varied and challenging work assignments in a hybrid working setup, which means that you will be able to work from home some days a week if the work permits. We can also offer other benefits such as free training at Scania's own health center Gröndal or wellness allowance, performance bonus, occupational pension, flexible working hours, lunch at a reduced price, the opportunity for a staff car and much more.

Further information

If you would like to learn more about the position please contact Herman van der Meulen (Group manager, Processes and Systems YMSB), at 070-9197060 or herman.van.der.meulen@scania.com.

Application

Your application should include a CV, personal letter, and grade copies. Please apply as soon as possible but no later than 2023-06-25. Ongoing selection and interviews will take place during the application period, the position may be filled before the end of the application period.

We use logic and personality tests in our selection process and a background check may be conducted for this position. 

If this sounds like a role in which you could excel, please apply to this posting, we would love to speak to you!



 Jobb ID: 20233062

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Scania is a world-leading provider of transport solutions. Together with our partners and customers we are driving the shift towards a sustainable transport system. In 2020, we delivered 66,900 trucks, 5,200 buses as well as 11,000 industrial and marine power systems to our customers. Net sales totalled to over SEK 125 billion, of which over 20 percent were services-related. Founded in 1891, Scania now operates in more than 100 countries and employs some 50,000 people. Research and development are mainly concentrated in Sweden. Production takes place in Europe and Latin America with regional product centres in Africa, Asia and Eurasia. Scania is part of TRATON GROUP. For more information visit: www.scania.com.