Digital Product Owner - Order Scheduling

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Digital Product Owner – Order Scheduling 
Gothenburg, Sweden

Let's create the future together.
At Volvo Cars, we believe that being curious and truly committed to understanding people is the key to future success. We are people who care about other people, working together to create new technologies and innovations for safe, sustainable and convenient mobility. Want to join us?

What we want:
We are looking for a passionate Digital Product Owner that can lead one of our product teams and deliver outstanding business value. Our ideal candidate is someone who loves collaboration, who can bring clarity where there is none, and who can guide others in times of uncertainty. You bring energy, creativity, a solution-oriented mindset and perhaps some humor, and we’ll make sure to help you grow and deliver. 

Whats in it for you?
You will join the Order Management & Planning product cluster within Digital Core at Volvo Cars. This product cluster delivers digital solutions that improve stability and consistency in the production plan, which will enable us to provide shorter and more accurate lead times to our customers. You will be part of the journey as we deliver on our company’s vision and ensure high flow through our factories. 

Our way of working is agile and as such we test, we fail, and we learn. However, we’re not religious about it and are constantly evaluating how to work in the best way, applying common sense to ensure as little waste as possible. In the end we care deeply about the quality of our work, and the users it affects. We ensure high quality and adaptability in our delivery, and we use modern tools and innovations to create business value continuously. Collaboration is the key, and of course we’re making sure to have fun while doing it. 

The Product:
You will work with the development team on the ARO application; an order scheduling system used by order coordinators and production planners globally. The application is currently being thoroughly enhanced with improved performance and new functionality developed as microservices based on Java backend and a web application frontend. Your job will be to align with stakeholders and understand why and where their problems should be solved, enabling the current process at the same time as we are pushing for the new initiatives to be in place.

What you will do:
As digital product owner, you will maximize value by owning and deciding upon priorities in the digital product team’s backlog from a business perspective to streamline the execution, while maintaining the technical integrity of the features/components for the team. You are the voice of the user, you have a business perspective and some technical know-how.  

You will be articulating and consistently emphasizing the short- and long-term vision of the product to the team and relevant stakeholders as well as ensure increased stability for our products by close collaboration with the operations team.

You will also be owning, building, prioritizing, deciding and refining the stories in the Team Backlog including defects and enablers as well as participating in the development of story acceptance criteria and drafting them when feasible.

Involving the team in backlog refinement to achieve minimum handover and maximum joint understanding as well as understanding the scope of the upcoming enabler work, collaborating with the team and architects to assist with decision-making, and sequencing of the key technological infrastructures.

We believe it’s important you are available to the team and answering their questions as well as participating in sprint team demo and retrospective (as requested by the team).

Your skills:
You are experienced in driving product strategy and operations as a Product Owner or equivalent role as well as working in the Production Planning domain. You understand the importance of saying "no", in a firm yet tasteful way, to developing something that does not benefit the end user. You have worked with new development as well as operations in a product landscape with high demands on stability. 

You have facilitated collaboration between teams and management with agile development methodologies. You are excellent at communication, presentation and relationship building with teams and global stakeholders.

You can communicate in the English language both verbally and in writing.

You as a person:
We believe that you are user-focused and passionate about solving their problems. You are flexible, open to new ideas and always looking for ways to improve.  You are energetic, forward-thinking and you push for innovation. You have a holistic viewpoint and are value-oriented, with an ability to inspire and motivate others in working towards a goal. 

Learn more and apply:
Does this sound like your next challenge? Kindly apply for this position through this portal no later than 3rd October  2022, but please note that selections will be running continuously. Please note that due to GDPR we cannot accept application through E-mail. If you have additional questions regarding this opportunity please contact Olivia Cedvall, Team Manager for Order Management & Planning, via [email protected]. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact senior recruiter Roza Cizek at [email protected].

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