BU Marine Analytics Manager

The Volvo Penta Vision is to be the world leader in sustainable power solutions and world-leading supplier of engines and complete powers systems for marine and industrial applications. We have a history of innovation and enjoy strong market positions based on our current product and service offer with customers in over 130 countries around the world.

Business Unit Marine is a global business function for the Marine segment within Penta. BU Marine includes Sales organization, Product Management, Pricing, Finance, Marketing, as well as cross functional work towards the global functions within Penta and the Volvo Group. We are now looking for a person willing to take on a new and very important function – BU Marine Data Analytics Manager.

Our Exciting Opportunity

Data Analytics is an area becoming more and more important in all areas of Volvo Penta, as a strategic tool for shaping our future success. We have an emerging community of analytics people within different areas of the Penta organization. We are in the early stages but rapidly evolving, convinced to shape a more intelligent enterprise. Analytics are key themes for all Volvo Penta organizations, and we continue to add further people and competence in this area to increase performance, deliver intelligence, and to scale up operations of data and analytics solutions.

BU Marine Data Analytics Manager

The central BU Marine department is responsible for long term profitable growth of the Marine business. We are now looking for an outstanding candidate to take on this new role – BU Marine Data Analytics Manager. You will be responsible for building-up our capability in analytics to increase sales performance and profitability, e.g., deliver intelligence on actual sales and “white spots”. You are expected to foster analytics insight in our, and other, teams. You will evolve our understanding in product and customer sales, prices, discounts, profitability analysis, market share, and where we have opportunities for improvements. You will report to VP Finance and Business Control, but work close with Engine Sales, Service Market as well as with Product Management. Strategy work and simulations related to this will be part of the role.

In the expectations for this new role we count in:

• Being the Center Point for Marine Sales Analytics in Volvo Penta
• Utilize data to identify business opportunities and the corresponding actions to capitalize upon them.
• Being owner (Key User) for existing tools and applications in this area, but also explore new technologies and working methods
• Being a driver of master data enhancement
• Extensive collaboration with various stakeholders and functions
• Being a contributor in the analytics community within BU Marine, Volvo Penta and the wider Volvo Group

This position is located in Volvo Pentas HQ in Gothenburg.


Position Qualifications
Core Competences & Personality

• Skilled in analytics and data visualization, able to tell a story based on data (PowerBI/Qlik)
• Like to work with sales and business development
• Problem solving attitude
• Excellent in presenting & communication (written and verbally)
• General IT system and process knowledge
• Entrepreneurial approach and can-do attitude
• Capability to frame and drive investigations towards agreed targets and expectations
• Networking and collaborative skilled
• Experience of structuring and handling data of scale.
• Proficiency in 1 of more scripting languages is seen as a merit (Python, R, Java, Apache Spark…)

Preferred Qualification and Experience Requirements

• University degree
• Fluently in English
• Experience from developing together with the business within commercial area or similar scope.

Are we a perfect match?

Do you feel you have all “tick in the box” for this position? Then we would like to meet you! We can promise an existing journey in Volvo Penta, who will provide you with both professional and personal development. You will feel empowered and counted in! We can’t wait to meet you!

For more information please contact:
Matteo Gasparetto, Vice President: Finance & Business Control, +46 31 3225660
Joakim Hangby, Director Business Control, +46 31 3233224

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