Strategic Portfolio Manager

Strategic Portfolio Manager

At Information & Technology (IT), you find outstanding opportunities to develop your skills and grow as a professional. In close collaboration with colleagues in other business units around the world, you and your team create IT innovations that support the company's overall business development and daily operations. And ultimately - you will contribute to a superior experience for the people who buy and drive a Volvo.

Strategy and Portfolio Management, within Business Engagement in Group IT, is the department responsible for the Corporate IT Strategy, the Enterprise Architecture and Strategic Portfolio Management for all of the IT at Volvo Car Group. Main purpose and responsibility is to develop the strategies and long-term directions for the entire area of IT that will support the company to achieve its business objectives and enable IT as a competitive advantage.

The Portfolio Management area includes several different portfolios for IT. The IT Project portfolio includes all the programs and projects related to IT. The Information Management, Application Management and Technology Management portfolios include Volvo Cars collection of IT related assets. The Service portfolio includes the IT services delivered to business and to external parties. As Strategic Portfolio Manager, you manage the entire Portfolio Management area, which means that you are responsible for the strategic development of the portfolios to ensure that we manage and steer the portfolios in line with overall business objectives and strategies.

Main responsibilities

* Develop and continuously improve the Portfolio Management discipline incl. processes, governance and framework on a strategic level for the area of IT within Volvo Car Group

* Ensure that portfolios reflect the overall strategic direction given by our Corporate Business Strategies and IT Strategies
* Lead and ensure cross functional engagement in the overall portfolio governance
* Ensure high quality output from the Portfolio Management processes
* Monitor and follow up on portfolio performance and status including areas such as financial reporting, quality, customer satisfaction, intended business value, portfolio deliveries and portfolio risk
* Present portfolio performance and recommended actions with executive level business partners as target groups
* Identify benchmarking opportunities and review recommendations

Required qualifications

* Relevant University degree
* Highly competent in developing and managing Portfolio Management processes
* Senior level experience from managing portfolios (application management, technology management, service management and project portfolios)
* Thorough business acumen and broad IT understanding
* Used of leading strategic discussion with senior and executive management levels
* Fully up to speed and proficient in the digitalisation trends
* Excellent leadership skills
* Strong communication and presentation skills
* Fluent in English, both verbally and in writing
* Advanced skills in MS Office with special emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint

Personal qualities

* Strong ability to build and maintain the right networks
* Strategic understanding and analytical thinking
* A passion for business, customer focus and continuous improvements
* Self-driven and engaged with excellent cooperation and team skills
* Structured and able to prioritise your own work and deliver on time
* Positive mindset, flexible and agile

About Volvo Car Group

The future belongs to those who are empowered by a great idea and have the ability to carry it out. At Volvo Car Group, our vision is clear: "To be the world's most progressive and desired luxury car brand" by simplifying people's lives. We have bold targets when it comes to innovation, sales and customer satisfaction and to make this happen, we need talented people onboard. People with passion, energy, business sense and the drive to innovate. People that want to create the next generation Volvo cars in a global, dynamic and respectful environment. We will support you to reach your full potential. Join us on this exciting journey into the future.



Contact

In this recruitment process, we are collaborating with Randstad Sourceright. If you have any questions regarding the position you are welcome to contact the responsible recruitment consultant Rebecka Simonsson by e-mail rebecka.simonsson@randstadsourceright.se

Interviews will be held continuously. To apply, please register your profile and attach your application documents via the link below as soon as possible but no later than February 5th, 2017.