Arbetsbeskrivning

Scania is undergoing a transformation from being a leading supplier of trucks, buses, and engines to providing complete and sustainable transport solutions. Together with TRATON and our sister brands MAN, Volkswagen Truck & Bus, and International, we are working to shape the future of mobility with innovative and environmentally conscious solutions. Our values – customer first, respect, team spirit, responsibility, and elimination of waste – are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we are at the forefront of creating a sustainable future.

Role Summary

If you want to work in a fast-growing and successful part of Scania this is doubtless the role for you. It is a role where things move at high pace, and it offers you great freedom.

The Services organization (KS) is responsible for the global service market business within Scania. Our mission is to develop the services business with a long-term global perspective to secure the objectives for sales, volumes, and profitability. As a product planning manager within the Parts & Service area your main responsibility is to secure that all development projects are optimizing our potential and profitability of the Parts & Service business.

The product planning manager for parts& service is responsible for the complete parts & service portfolio, spanning over all applications and all product areas. The core mission is to secure that the most important requirements are transferred to and included in the projects, ensuring that all product introductions have considered and prepared for the parts & service business in a satisfactory way.

The key underlying success factors are to work in close collaboration with the development teams through the product managers at KS and also maintain close collaboration with all Sales & Marketing product management functions to secure alignment and common priorities to always get the most out of the group's resources.

The Product Planning and Solution management area is under rapid transformation. An important part of the role is to co-lead this development to further improve Scania’s ability to develop products and solutions in the new Traton landscape in such way that we secure our revenue targets, and in turn our EBIT target.

The Product Planning manager influence the direction of Group R&D to ensure that customer satisfaction, Scania’s business model and long term product strategies are fulfilled.

Job Responsibilities

You will be focusing on:

· Initiate, analyze and develop market demands based product requests through the PRS (product request system)

· Understand the technology developments, market trends, application strategies and use them to make balanced prioritization of what we develop.

· Represent Services (KS) in relevant R&D Forums, push for our top priority demands, provide market input to improve demands and ensure a priority that is optimal for Scania.

· Represent the parts & service business in our development projects, make sure the projects are clear on what the detailed demand is, what our service sales strategy is, how this relates to the price strategy and expected volumes.

· Be an active and driving force in product planning topics, forums and projects.

· Be an active and driving force in the continuous improvement work within project development processes.

· Flag deviations and make sure corrective actions are initiated when the development projects are deviating from our parts service strategy or missing our requirements.

The services business has a significant impact on the total Scania profitability. This job suits you who wants a key role in our transformation in being a supplier of complete and sustainable transport solutions. The Scania service business has had a rapid growth in sales and here you really have the chance to continue pushing it to the next level!

Who You Are

· You value team spirit, high pace and are a fast learner. You are proactive, pragmatic and make sure to find solutions to the identified challenges.

· You are a strong communicator and enjoy working in cross functional positions and are eager to develop existing ways of working into even more agile and flow-oriented structures, with customer demand at heart.

· You are analytical with an out of the box mindset.

· You have at least three years’ work experience as a product planning manager, development engineer, product manager or similar.

Education level:

University degree in engineering, industrial management, business and administration or equivalent.

Language skills:

Fluent in English, both spoken and written. Swedish and knowledge in other languages are a merit.

Other skills that are needed for the role:

You need to be able to have strong business orientation and economical understanding as well as interest and knowledge in technology. Knowledge in the Traton/Scania development processes is a merit. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds – your unique experience and perspectives is valuable to us.

This Is Us

You will be joining a newly established and talented cross-functional team together with product planning managers representing all other areas of Scania’s Services business, and also with our colleagues responsible for Scania’s commercial telecom area that also is part of the team. We appreciate teamwork and care for and encourage each other to achieve fantastic results that we all are proud of. It is not only a place full of skilled colleagues, but also a place where a helping hand when you need it is ever present.

Scania Offers We offer a dynamic, flexible workplace with hybrid work options, including Scania Sergel and Midway hubs. With a structured development plan and courses, Scania supports your career growth both locally and internationally. Benefits include training at our health center Gröndal or wellness allowance, result bonus, flexible hours, and company car leasing. Scania also hosts events for employees and their families, and Stockholm residents enjoy direct access to Södertälje via Scania Job express buses.

We look forward to your application!