Team Manager at Seats & Safety with responsibility for Seats i Stockholm

Do you want drive seating experience in automotive?
At Volvo Cars, we are always looking for world-class leaders who bring out the best in our people. If you want to be part of leading and inspiring our mission to change the automotive experience and make people’s lives less complicated, then we have the job for you.

We are now searching for an experienced Team Manager with perceptive leadership skills.  
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 we do
Our agile release train (ART), Seats & Safety, is an ART within the solution Vehicle Tophat. We consist of 21 internal and external agile teams with the responsibility to develop mechanical hardware, electronics, SW and functions for following products: Airbags, Steering Wheels, Seat Belts, Child Safety and Seats.

What do we offer?
We are now looking for a Team Manager who wants to join us in our exciting journey to develop and keep our strong position in develop world leading seats products with excellent safety performance and comfort. If you possess outstanding leadership qualities and value close cooperation and team spirit, please read on!
The ART work in a truly global organisation working together with 2 agile teams in China.
We are an agile organisation under constant development, and you will have a great chance to make influence on our way forward. We work in close cooperation within the ART but also with our network and this is a great opportunity for you to develop new relations. You will work in an environment that is prestige less with focus on what´s best for the ART´s components and systems.

What you will do
As a Team Manager you will be a servant leader for your teams, and you will collaborate closely with the team’s Product Owner (PO) and Scrum Master (ScM) to assure good leadership and alignment in your support to the teams. You will support your team members in their everyday work by being present and attentive to their needs and will guide and coach them in agile development. In addition, you shall support the team to solve impediments and escalate them when needed. 
In this role, you will continuously work with competence and team development, and you will recruit skilled individuals in line with identified competence needs. You will be responsible for the employees’ work environment according to defined tasks and for all HR employee related processes (e.g., salary setting, appraisals, goal setting). Moreover, you as a Team Manager will in close collaboration with procurement support suppliers to become a part of our agile development. Part of your role consists of attending ceremonies and formal procedures (such as demos, PI planning, retrospectives) and support team celebrations for team achievements.

In your role as a Team Manager, you will actively work with continuous improvements related to your area of responsibilities (e.g., tools, IT, flow, ways of working). You will participate in technical discussions and actively guide and coach the teams. Furthermore, you will safeguard long term technical strategies in close collaboration with the System Architects and POs.

What you need to bring with you?
We believe that you are a person who possesses a high level of integrity and professionalism and has an aspired leadership style. Since you will be a manager for people, you should be a team player with a flexible mind-set who have great cooperation and communication skills. We believe that you have a positive attitude and the ability to work with continuous improvements. You should furthermore have a high courage and personal energy to drive others. 

We see that you have an engineering background, university degree or equivalent experience in the concerned area as well as documented leadership skills. You should have experience of automotive engineering preferable with experience from seat development. We see also that you understand Volvo Product Development processes. Fluency in English written and spoken, as well as a Drivers’ license B are required for this role.

How to learn more and apply
If you have any additional questions regarding the position, you are welcome to contact Hiring Manager Andreas Sandahl: andreas.sandahl@volvocars.com or sr tech recruiter Henrik.jansson.3@volvocars.com. 

To apply, please register your profile and attach your application documents via our system as soon as possible, but no later than 2nd of October 2022. Note that applications by e-mail will not be considered.

Who are we?

Everything we do starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones and the people around them. 

Volvo Cars’ continued success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. The people of Volvo Cars are committed to making a difference in our world. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 40,000 employees across the globe. We believe in bringing out the best in each other and harnessing the true power of people. At Volvo Cars your career is designed around your talents and aspirations so you can reach your full potential. Join us on a journey of a lifetime as we create safety, autonomous driving and electrification technologies of tomorrow.