Senior Venture Builder within Scania Ventures, Mobility Solutions

The transport industry is undergoing a paradigm shift. Technological developments will over time revolution the relationship Scania has with its customers and the company’s role in the transport value chain. Through this transformation Scania will adapt from being a supplier of trucks, buses, and engines to also being a supplier of complete and sustainable transport solutions.

Mobility Solutions is our new business area with the mission to lead Scania’s ambition to take a larger role in the transport ecosystem. Today Mobility Solutions primarily focus on driving Scania’s autonomous transport roadmap and providing Transport-as-a-Service (LOTS Group). Tomorrow, we look to develop and deliver new businesses supporting Scania’s long-term growth and profitability through our new Corporate Venturing function.  

The position

At Scania, we invite our colleagues to think outside the box and offer the possibility to build ventures (start-ups) within the company. At Mobility Solutions we will continuously drive a number of ventures in parallel, and you will have a leading role for one of these. Often as the CEO of the venture where you will be representing and steering the direction of the initiative. Other times, as a senior business advisor or responsible for evaluating what venture(s) to accelerate next.

As part of Mobility Solutions, you and your venture operate under a high degree of freedom and autonomy, while also having access to expertise and supporting functions for e.g. legal/HR/finance. You will be reporting to Head of Strategy.

We believe that people thrive in a positive, dynamic, purpose driven and result-oriented culture. Therefore, we are a small team of great people who have fun and feel confident together. We can keep calm and drive change during uncertain circumstances.

Key Tasks

As we are at the early stages of establishing our Corporate Venturing business, we are recruiting high performing talents to both accelerate new business ventures and a small, tight core team to run and operate the function. You will have a leading role in various ventures, work within the Mobility Solutions environment and be a part of shaping the processes for the function together with the core team.

Your key tasks may vary over time but will include:


• Create and lead high performing teams that develop new ventures with the goal to generate new revenue streams for Scania in strategically selected area’s
• Defining the vision, develop a strategy and business plan for the venture
• Secure efficient business and product development
• Report progress to steering group and run advisory group meetings for input
• External monitoring – Stay attentive, what is going on in the continuously changing environment – adapt the initiatives strategy to best position it
• Communication – you will be the voice to Mobility Solutions, Scania and the competitive environment of the initiative 

The Candidate

We seek someone who demonstrates determination, curiosity, and a belief in teamwork. Apart from that we also think you love building long lasting relationships, try new things, work smarter not harder, thrive in uncertainty, get inspired by a constantly evolving environment and can stay calm during pressure.

It is crucial that you are a positive influence and a good collaborator as you will interact with a wide array of internal and external stakeholders. Good communication skills are key since you will be interacting closely with business executives both across the company and externally.

As a person, you always have a strategic mindset but eager and ready to support where needed.

Requirements


• You are a tireless inspirer - You probably influence people merely by your presence and have vast experience and innate communicative savviness
• You have experience in leading small to medium size teams
• You have a doer mentality combined with high strategic capabilities
• You have experience from working with scale-ups or successful startups
• You have experience from sales and financial models
• You have extensive experience of delivering with high precision in stressful and complex situations
• You have a high ability to build and develop lasting relationships to drive change
• You have proven track record of creating effective teams and strong stakeholder management capabilities
• You have strong command, both verbal and written, of the English language

At Scania and Mobility Solutions we apply Scania’s Work playbook meaning you can work part time remote and either from Södertälje or Stockholm.

Ready to apply or do you need more information?        

Please apply through our website HR Inline/Job search at Scania as soon as possible and no later than 20220621 Job Id 20223629. Your application should include a CV.

To find out more about the position, contact either Sofia Vahlne, Head of People & Culture, +46 8 553 810 00, sofia.vahlne@scania.com or Cindi Lindsborg, acting Head of Mobility Solutions, +46 8 553 810 00, cindi.lindsborg@scania.com.

Selections and interviews will take place on an ongoing basis throughout the application period.