Product Area Roadmap Lead

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

What do we offer?

While Volvo is pushing the boundaries on several fronts – autonomous driving, vehicle electrification, cutting-edge vehicle engineering design, and more – some of the most exciting action is happening in the Digital area.

We are uniquely positioned with our talent within Digital to shape what’s next in automotive. We are taking consumer-facing technology around the driving experience to places most players are only dreaming about – and changing how people think about transportation as a result. 

We’re fully committed to giving Volvo customers an entire week of quality time back per year already by 2025 through digital innovations that simplify their lives. 

The Corporate Digital Business Office is looking for a Roadmap Lead for the Digital Finance Product Area! This is to ensure that the strategic roadmap is defined and delivered with transperancy. You will specialize and focus your efforts on our products related to financial digital products, for instance: Product Offer, Pricing, Planning & Steering, Customer & Supplier Transactions, Accounting, Tax & Statutory Reporting and the SAP Platform to mention some areas.

Your main responsibilities
* Facilitate and enable digital direction and functional strategies
* Ensuring strategic alignment of Product Area’s portfolio and roadmap towards Digital and Volvo Cars
* Building roadmaps for product based deliveries based on SAFe
* Defining and measuring delivered value and performance
* Problem solving, data analysis and effective communication
* Senior leadership interaction and decision facilitation
* Facilitating portfolio balancing and prioritization of content and funding on a running basis (monthly, quarterly, yearly)
* Ensuring that the quality of roadmaps is sufficient and underpinned by realistic ambitions and feasibility to execute
* Enabling EPIC/backlog transparency across all teams within the Product Area

Experience
* Managed roadmaps for complex programs and/or portfolios
* Finance management in an agile environment and experience with handling financials for large initiatives and/or portfolio management
* Defined business cases and driven value realization
* Collaborated with wide range of stakeholders of different skillsets and seniority levels
* Ability to visualize information to create a common understanding and direction
* Agile product development knowledge and management in an agile environment
* Significant experience in applicable office tools; MS Office, Excel, Teams etc
* Ideally experience from a finance organization and the SAP platform, IT/digital, automotive environments, SAFe and/or management consulting experience


Who are you

* Having a holistic viewpoint and being value oriented, with an ability to inspire and motivate others in working towards a goal
* Being communicative, flexible and adaptive to the extent of being an excellent navigator in conflicts of interest and resolver of impediments, aiding the team in having the right focus
* Acting as a servant leader
* Strong communication skills
* A true team player that belives in collaboration
* Flexible, open to new ideas and always looking for ways to improve
* Ability to understand end user needs & network with stakeholders
* Facilitation skills