Unit Manager Testing Enablement within Traton R&D

Scania's R&D department is transforming to become part of TRATON Group R&D. TRATON is a group of strong brands with a shared mission: transforming transportation together to create the future of sustainable transport solutions. Within TRATON, we include MAN, Scania, Volkswagen Truck & Bus, and International. As part of a global team of industry experts, you get to think bigger, experience more, and reach further. Together, we have the power to transform transportation.

 

Our values – customer first, respect, team spirit, responsibility, and elimination of waste – are at the heart of everything we do.
 

Role Summary

Are you a servant leader who naturally motivates, involves, and builds diverse and agile teams and who loves to understand the stakeholders business to create maximum value?

If so, we want you to join our team within Testing Enablement!

 

We are a team consisting of the product owners and business analysts for Testing Enablement. Since we have just moved into Traton R&D we are exploring forming a flow Testing Enablement within Traton R&D and the VCF GSDE (Global Solution Development Enablement).

 

As a manager for our unit, you will work closely with both our stakeholders within the Traton R&D, BID and brands organisations and with IT in our cross-functional team.

Job Responsibilities

We believe you recognize yourself in the picture below, either because you have experience or the skills to handle the challenges:

 

• Support your team, help them grow, remove obstacles, and enable them to become high-performing.
• Engage your teams to know the end-users and their business and needs.
• Build trust and relationships throughout the value stream and act as your team's ambassadors across all of Traton and its brands.
• Create a team climate where innovation is a given factor and ways of working that can be developed and continuously improved.
• Motivate, engage, and develop the people in your team.
• Take the Traton R&D first perspective and understand the stakeholder business.
• Business Change Management
• Be a member of the section’s leadership and Testing management team
• Recruit and compose teams with the right skills and dynamics.

Who You Are

Empowering agile development with a focus on creating value for the end-user is your passion! You live and agree with these statements from our Culture:

 

• Leadership instead of Management – Because success is all about growing others.
• Diversity – We respect different opinions and perspectives. They are a source of great ideas.
• Fun – We take having fun and being happy very seriously at work.
• Our Products – We understand our business and end-users and fulfil needs with a solution-oriented spirit
• Elimination of Waste – Always challenge unnecessary practices everywhere!

 

As a humble, engaged, and experienced leader, you understand that knowledge is crucial for our business. You continuously learn and improve your knowledge, creating a climate where people can grow and nourish their skills.

 

You have a relevant education from university level and/or equivalent experience. Experience from working with testing within vehicle development is a merit.

 

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds – your unique experiences and perspectives are valuable to us.

This Is Us

Testing Enablement, within Product development, develop and maintains applications that are needed in Tratons Testing and the test vehicle process. The applications are utilized in various parts of the prototype testing process, from material planning of prototype parts to evaluation of test data of prototype vehicles. Our applications use new technologies and scalability to reach our global users and meet their expectations.

 

Within TRATON Group R&D, you are an important part of something bigger. Joining us means gaining access to the ins and outs of the entire transportation industry. As part of a global team of industry experts, you get to think bigger, experience more, and reach further. Being bigger also means being stronger. Together with our brands, we have the collective power to transform transportation.

We Offer

We offer a dynamic, flexible workplace with hybrid work options, including Scania Sergel and Midway hubs. With a structured development plan and courses, TRATON Group R&D supports your career growth both locally and internationally.

Benefits include wellness allowance, TRATON result bonus, flexible hours, and company car leasing. We also hosts events for employees and their families, and Stockholm residents enjoy direct access to Södertälje via Scania Job express buses.

Application

Your application should include a CV and any relevant certificates. We welcome all applicants and strive for diversity in our recruitment processes.

Apply as soon as possible, no later than the 18th of May. 2025. Screening will take place on an ongoing basis during the application period. Logical and personality tests may be used as part of the selection process, and a background check may be required for this role.

If you have questions or would like more information, please contact:
Maria Rigler, Section Manager,

We look forward to your application!

Nothing is more important than our people. With a company culture that’s based on shared and inclusive core values. We have a supportive community, where everyone has opportunities to grow and succeed.