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Agile Team Manager at Volvo Cars

Imagine the mobility of tomorrow


Picture yourself in an exciting industry where the future revolves around leading-edge electrified and self-driving cars seamlessly integrated into people's daily lives. But how can we create this future in a way that is both safe and sustainable? This is just one of the inspiring questions we're working to solve here at Volvo Cars. Join us and watch your ideas shape the future of mobility. 

 

Let's introduce ourselves

Volvo Cars is performing a strategic shift towards becoming a software driven company, with data being a core asset in this transformation. You will join the digital area of Manufacturing and Supply Chain. We digitalize work processes, make data instantly available and workflows highly automated while minimizing time spent on transactional purchasing activities. We use modern tools and agile methods to create business value continuously. By doing so we enable our organization to make fact-based decisions and maximize value add. One challenge today is the legacy system landscape where our mission is to simplify and modernize it to serve the future business demands. This is an exciting and challenging task for our teams and of course we have fun during this journey. 

What you'll do

We are looking for a passionate Agile Team manager that can lead two of our product teams within the cluster. There might be a possibility to broaden this scope, depending on your background and experience. To succeed in this role, we believe you need a passion for leading and developing others, enjoy empowering people and embrace an agile mindset and culture.   

What you'll bring

You are an experienced people leader who will coach, challenge and support the team to continuously learn, grow, collaborate and deliver outstanding results. You will work on individual and team development promoting the feedback culture, carrying out appraisals and helping in setting development plans. You identify team recruitment strategy and ensure required competences by recruiting and onboarding highly skilled team members. 
You will help to define the working methodology, ensure transparency of the progress and support in removing impediments for deliveries. You advocate and advance modern development practices and champion high technical and architectural standards. You are Volvo Cars Culture ambassador: you create an environment where people are motivated and happy, you also help to establish good collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. 
Required skills:

  •     Strong leadership skills and experience in leadership positions;
  •     Effective communication and collaboration skills;
  •     Developing people, providing feedback and coaching;
  •     Creating highly performing teams and driving innovation;
  •     Agile mindset and experience in setting agile ways of working;
  •     IT technical background, good knowledge and ability to navigate in both legacy and modern system landscapes
  •     Hands-on experience in IT landscape transformation;
  •     Knowledge in supply chain management and Procurement is a strong benefit.
     


Ready to Take the Next Step?


Please submit your application through our career page. Due to GDPR regulations, we’re unable to store or consider applications from other platforms. Make sure to submit your application in English.


Once your application is successfully submitted, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Applications are open until 6th of January 2025. We’re excited to get to know you! 

 


Volvo Cars – driving change together


Volvo Cars’ success is the result of a collaborative, diverse and inclusive working environment. Today, we’re one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with around 43,000 employees across the globe. At Volvo Cars, your career is designed around your skills and aspirations, so you can reach your fullest potential.

And it’s so exciting – we’re well on our way on our journey towards full electrification. We have five fully electric cars already on the market, and five more on the way. Our fully-electric and plug-in hybrid cars combined make up almost 50 per cent of our sales. So come and join us in shaping the future of mobility. There’s never been a more rewarding time to play your part in our inspiring and creative teams!

 

Gothenburg, SE, 40531

Job requisition ID:  75536

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