Product Manager - Product Costing i Göteborg

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? 

We are now looking for a Product Manager for the Product Costing Product which is a part of our Industrial Cluster located within Digital Finance. The digital transformation is running with full speed forward with multiple ongoing transformation programs related to financial systems at Volvo Cars, and you will be one of the centrepieces in it.

The Costing domain is highly integrated into all aspects of Volvo Cars operations. Your applications will be used to calculate early costing of cars, understand what the current cars & components cost to build and provide data to accounting for correct accounting value. The environment they operate in is a mix of high transactions volumes and detailed single item analytic. Perspectives varies depending on your customer, and it goes through the full product lifecycle in a manufacturing company. This makes the domain interesting and challenging to manage.

• You will need to understand and control business logic and transform that into well performing applications.
• You will collaborate with a dedicated development and support team lead by the engineering lead. They are responsible to build the solutions, where you are responsible to make sure that right things are built by maximizing business value in each iteration.
• You will be responsible for the products deliveries, securing that the right things get’s done and that the backlog is correctly prioritized.
• Your input will be key to the features that the product is delivering. You will set the right level of specification to make sure that the features are delivered with the right speed and quality, always with the customer requirements and the business outcome in the back of your mind. The large stakeholder community will put their trust in you and your ability to make the right priorities for the product.

You will aim for continuous improvement in the ways of working to set the Cluster, Digital Finance and Volvo Cars up for success. Working with culture, diversity and inclusion, psychological safety, way of working and other key areas, you will move us forward and catalyse improvement together with your peers. Making our organization provide the best, possible environment for our teams and people to thrive in to deliver as much value as possible. 

To succeed in this role, we believe you need to be a servant leader that easily articulate your vision to the product team.

• You have a deep understanding of Finance and specifically the product costing domain.
• You have experience working with Agile methodology, OKRs and enabling effectiveness.
• Your holistic thinking that allows you to effectively navigate through the organization in times of change and disruption. These skills have led you to effective digital implementations in the past.
• You have experience from agreeing and setting solution and feature designs and you are not afraid to dig deep into fully understanding which is the desired outcome. Setting the right pre-requisites for the development team is essential, and we believe that you have worked with IT and process development in the past.
• We believe that you have a background with a higher education degree in finance or IT. With the core expertise obtained in the academic world we believe that you have then worked passionately with both IT & Finance for a few years.

HQ Gothenburg.

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.

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