The Volvo Financial Services Global D&IT team is seeking a Digital Product Owner (DPO) for our equipment as a service platform to act as the link between the stakeholders and the development teams.
What you will do
As a DPO, you will lead an agile team of solution professionals, playing a key role in transforming the product vision into value creation. You will turn the product roadmap into working deliverables in your team backlog, aligned with the overall strategy and product vision. You will be a member of the stable team responsible for managing the team backlog.
Your starting point will be to, together with your colleagues at VFS (Volvo Financial Services), and in the broad cross-functional network at the Volvo Group, take responsibility in the following areas:
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Lead a diverse global team focused on product engineering, development, and implementation
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Ensure transparency, understanding, and dependencies of the team backlog.
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Clarify team purpose, strategy, and business priorities.
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Ensure that the digital product is developed and maintained in compliance with the given architecture, security requirements, and digital product strategy until decommissioning is completed.
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Manage budget and financial follow-up for the owned digital products and solutions
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Manage dependencies and collaborate with other teams and business partners, as needed.
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Secure that SLAs (Service Level Agreements) are established and fulfilled end-to-end for any solutions managed by the team, for both the delivery and consuming services.
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Manage life cycle management and support of digital products and solutions in team scope.
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Ensure that the team regularly collects feedback on implemented work.
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Contribute to digital product roadmap and capacity planning.
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Be responsible for team and culture development to secure proper capacity and capability for its delivery.
Your future team
You will report directly to the DPAO, New Services. In VFS, we demonstrate a clear vision to continue Transforming Together, a global mindset, and a proven record of successfully developing people, teams, culture, and leadership.
In many of our markets, VFS has won the Great Place to Work Award, where Great Work is done. By interacting with each other as an on-site business, we build relationships. This allows us to work together more efficiently and form stronger bonds with our colleagues and customers. The preferred location is Gothenburg, Sweden where we are establishing our new Global Hub.
Who are you?
Do you dream big? We do too, and we are excited to grow together. In this role, we believe it is the right mindset that will make a difference at VFS. If you bring a genuine interest in working with people in Transforming Together, along with a positive, service-oriented, and collaborative mindset, we welcome you to apply for this role. You take a proactive approach to your responsibilities and contribute ideas and recommendations to drive productivity and efficiency.
We believe the successful candidate has excellent knowledge of automotive financing, preferably within leasing and rental, combined with a strong level of ambition and the ability to understand both team and corporate objectives. They demonstrate superior verbal and interpersonal communication skills, along with the ability to handle confidential information and work with a high level of integrity and ethics. You have also proven experience in problem solving, research, and analysis.
