Head of Commercial Backbone Product
Volvo Personvagnar Aktiebolag · Göteborg · Tills vidare · Deadline 2026-11-12
Volvo Cars is seeking a **Head of Commercial Backbone Product**, a director-level position leading a critical digital portfolio that underpins product information management (PIM), pricing, financial offers, merchandising, checkout APIs, and payment integrations. The role involves setting the overall product vision, strategy, and roadmaps, as well as overseeing discovery, software delivery, and operational readiness across global channels and markets. Responsibilities also include prioritizing portfolio investments, establishing performance and adoption metrics, aligning stakeholders across commercial, finance, and engineering functions, and coaching a team of product managers. Applicants must bring proven leadership experience in **digital product management** overseeing business-critical software portfolios, alongside a track record of guiding product managers and cross-functional teams in global, matrixed environments. Candidates need a strong background in modern software delivery, platform thinking, and APIs, as well as relevant expertise in areas such as e-commerce, pricing, product information, checkout, or payments. Excellent **English communication skills** are required; automotive industry experience is considered beneficial rather than mandatory.
Company description:
Who are we?Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent. We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.
Job description: Let's introduce ourselves
At Volvo Cars, understanding people is the starting point for meaningful innovation. Commercial Backbone is the digital foundation for how we define and enrich our product offer through Product Information Management (PIM), create and distribute prices, assemble commercial and financial offers, merchandise them across channels, and enable checkout through financing and payment integrations.
What you'll do
As Head of Commercial Backbone Product, a director-level position, you will lead a strategically important portfolio at the intersection of commercial strategy, customer experience, finance and technology. You will set product strategy and portfolio roadmaps, lead product managers and cross-functional teams, and turn business objectives and technology opportunities into measurable, sustainable outcomes.
Your key responsibilities:
- Define the vision, strategy and roadmaps for product offer, Product Information Management (PIM), pricing, financial offers, merchandising, checkout APIs, financing integrations and payment
- Prioritise investments and make transparent trade-offs across customer value, growth, compliance, operational resilience, technical health and cost
- Oversee discovery, software delivery and rollout readiness, ensuring quality, security, observability, supportability and market adoption
- Drive shared product models, governed data and reusable APIs that provide consistent offer, price and transaction information across channels and markets
- Establish outcome measures for adoption, offer quality, price accuracy, conversion, time-to-market, reliability and business value
- Align Commercial, Finance, Engineering, regional teams and external partners around outcomes, dependencies and decision rights
- Coach and develop product managers, strengthening product craft, accountability and succession
What you'll bring
You are a strategic, data-informed product leader who creates clarity in complexity, makes courageous trade-offs and stays accountable from strategy through adoption and operation.
- Leadership experience in digital product management, including a portfolio of business-critical software products
- A strong record of setting product strategy, shaping roadmaps and delivering measurable customer and business outcomes
- Experience leading product managers and cross-functional teams in a global, matrixed organisation
- Strong understanding of modern software delivery, APIs, platform thinking, data-informed discovery and lifecycle ownership
- Relevant experience in e-commerce, pricing, product information, merchandising, checkout, payments or embedded finance; automotive experience is beneficial but not required
- Commercial judgement and the ability to evaluate investments, risks, dependencies and trade-offs
- Excellent English communication skills and the ability to make complex topics clear and actionable
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