Senior Innovation Manager

Volvo Car Corporation(Prd) / Datajobb / Göteborg
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At Information & Technology (IT), you find outstanding opportunities to develop your skills and grow as a professional. In close collaboration with colleagues in other business units around the world, you and your team create IT innovations that support the company's overall business development and daily operations. And ultimately - you will contribute to a superior experience for the people who buy and drive a Volvo.

Digital & Connectivity Consumer Services (DCCS) department is developing end-user and consumer digital services and strengthening development and delivery of digital services to our retail value chain. They will design an architecture that is prepared to meet our future business needs and enables development of interfaces to develop new services and exchange of information.

The Innovation & Digital Services (IDS) is delivering leading innovation services. It identifies and develop new business opportunities with the purpose to capture value in new areas, typically outside and beyond current core businesses. As Senior Innovation Manager within IDS you will lead innovation activities throughout the whole innovation process.

The role is challenging and as you will work along the whole Innovation process, you will further develop your leadership skills and ways to navigate within a large organization. You will also broaden your external engagement and network as we often work with different constellations in our innovation concepts.

Main responsibilities
* Lead and evaluate concepts or investigations regarding idea generation, project management, business model development, development of prototypes, testing and evaluating with customers both B2B and B2C in order to achieve potential value for Volvo Cars.
* Based on innovation ideas, explore new business opportunities with external parties both nationally and globally in a highly creative way.
* Plan and facilitate workshops (business modelling, ideation, customer evaluation etc.) and actively work with refining the workshop methods.
* Maintain and develop methodologies for ideation and innovation management.
* Manage ideas from Global Idea Generation, Workshops, contests, idea tool etc.
* Coach and sponsor innovation projects initiated by other departments or by junior innovation leaders within the Innovations Office.

Required qualifications:
* Bachelor 's degree or M. Sc. Degree in relevant area or equivalent experience
* At least 10 years of progressive responsibility as Innovation manager or other adequate senior experience.
* Project Management experience.
* Fluent in English (written and spoken)

Personal qualifications:
* Social and team player
* Good communication skills with good presentation technique
* Entrepreneurial mind-set.
* Business acumen and good understanding of future trends, technology and new business models.
* Capability to build and maintain good business relationships.
* Creative mind-set

Contact
For questions about the position please contact Madelene Lindberg, Senior Manager IT Innovation Office, madelene.lindberg@volvocars.com. For questions about the recruitment process please contact Lovisa Mankert, Experienced Recruiter, lovisa.mankert@volvocars.com. Please apply by register your application as soon as possible but no later than August 28th 2017. Note that applications thorugh email will not be accepted.

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About Volvo Car Group

The future belongs to those who are empowered by a great idea and have the ability to carry it out. At Volvo Car Group, our vision is clear: "To be the world's most progressive and desired premium car brand" by simplifying people's lives. We have bold targets when it comes to innovation, sales and customer satisfaction and to make this happen, we need talented people onboard. People with passion, energy, business sense and the drive to innovate. People that want to create the next generation Volvo cars in a global, dynamic and respectful environment. We will support you to reach your full potential. Join us on this exciting journey into the future.

Varaktighet, arbetstid
FULLTIME PERMANENT

Publiceringsdatum
2017-07-13

Ersättning
SALARY

Så ansöker du
Sista dag att ansöka är 2017-08-28
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Kontakt
Lovisa Mankert

Företag
Volvo Car Corporation(Prd)

Adress
Volvo Car Corporation(Prd)
VAK building, Assar Gabrielssons väg
41878 Gothenburg

Kontorsadress
VAK building, Assar Gabrielssons väg

Jobbnummer
3603600

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