Digital Product Area Owner

At Group Digital & IT, we have a clear ambition to enable value creation at scale for the Volvo Group. With a new product centric operating model and digital technologies, we will produce digital offerings that are profitable, scalable, and differentiated. With Group Digital & IT, you will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals, who learn continuously and embrace change to stay ahead. We have a very important role to play in reaching the Volvo Group ambitions for 2030. Do you want to be part of our transformation journey towards becoming the digital capability of the GroupThe time is now.

SAP COE is part of the Core Platform Area SAP and Business Administration, in the Technology leg of our organization. This is a function in Volvo Group Digital & IT with a big stake in the Group s digital transformation. Technology will modernize Volvo s core digital backbone making it a platform for digital products.
SAP COE operates and delivers SAP common solutions and services used across the Group. The common solutions are the foundation for the Volvo Group SAP landscape, consisting of more than 40 production SAP systems (ECC, S/4HANA, CRM, BW, PI, SCM and more). We collaborate with other parts of the organization, both in Group Digital & IT, with TD/BAs and Group Functions. We foster an environment where ideas, thoughts and opinions can be shared. We are team players with clear common ambitions, and we win together.

As DPAO of Foundational Products team in India, you will contribute to the digital transformation and modernization of the Volvo SAP landscape. You will be delivery responsible of the common and foundational products. And have full development, delivery and support responsibility of the below :

• SAP Integration Platform (SAP PI, SAP Integration Suite, SAP Cloud Connector)
• SAP Security Service and GRC Platform (Access Control)
• SAP UI/UX Platform (SAP Fiori and GUI Technologies)
• SAP BTP Governance

You will lead the modernisation of these critical platforms and secure the gradual introduction of SAP CI, Edge Integration Cell, IAG, Cloud ALM, etc.

You will be an active and important member of the SAP COE management team and report to the Head of this unit.

Mission

Strategically oversee the digital product capabilities in your area and ensure alignment with the organization s overall strategy. Responsible for a specific area of capabilities and the teams, their inter-relationships and business value proposition.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop the capabilities vision, strategy, goal & roadmap aligned with business priorities
• Manage budget and financial follow up for the area
• Manage cross team dependencies and support collaboration both within and outside area, and business partners
• Support overarching capabilities prioritization in one rhythm and contribute on roadmap planning
• Facilitate capacity management and resource allocation discussions across the area
• Actively work for teams empowerment, building the needed skills, competencies and trust for teams to take ownership of shared capabilities and cultivating agile mindset
• Strive for simplification, encourage waste reduction and continuous improvement
• Nurture collaboration, stimulate great conversation and transparency between stakeholders
• Secure that capabilities are developed and maintained in compliance within given architecture and security guidelines, meeting required quality expectations until decommissioning
• Drive for capabilities development based on end-user, market research and data analysis, understand the business and their end-users to evolve capabilities and make right priorities for Volvo Group over its lifecycle
• Manage, as line manager, the professional development and support career development of the team members through coaching and performance feedback consisting of Digital Product Owners and SAP Consultants (Volvo team of 7 people).
• Ensure a smooth and efficient working relationship with supplier (SDM, Engagement Manager, Delivery Executive and Account Executive) on the co-managed (work package) deliveries that we have with them since 2015. The delivery team on their side will be your extended team that plays a major role in the day-to-day operations of your deliveries.
• Deliver on your KPI s including quality and stability of your deliveries.
• Support the other SAP core platforms in their modernization roadmap and in their transformation program.
• Actively drive SAP Community and perform technology watch on new SAP products in your area and promote knowledge sharing and best practice across the organization.