Job Description

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Volvo Cars is accelerating enterprise-wide investments in Data, Automation and AI. To ensure these investments translate into measurable business impact, we are establishing a strong Enterprise BI capability. As BI & Core Data Site Lead – India, you will define and lead how Volvo Cars measures progress, value realization, and maturity across Data & AI initiatives globally. This is a high-visibility enterprise leadership role combining strategic BI ownership with India site leadership responsibility. You will operate at global scale, influence executive stakeholders, and play a key role in shaping the future of Core Data, creating clarity in a complex and evolving landscape.

What you'll do

1. Enterprise BI Strategy & Value Realization

• Define and lead the enterprise BI strategy and multi-year roadmap.
• Establish KPIs and measurement frameworks for Data, Automation, and AI value realization.
• Provide executive visibility into enterprise progress, adoption, and maturity.
• Drive standardization and governance for enterprise reporting.

2. BI Architecture, Platforms & Operating Model

• Shape the future BI architecture, tools, and reporting ecosystem.
• Define the operating model for BI across the federated Data & AI landscape.
• Ensure alignment with data platforms, data architecture, and domain data teams.

3. Enterprise Stakeholder Leadership

• Influence senior stakeholders across Commercial, Finance, Product, and Technology functions.
• Translate complex data initiatives into clear insights for leadership decision making.
• Drive alignment and adoption of BI standards across the organization.

4. Capability Building & Team Leadership

• Build and lead a high-performing BI and Core Data organization.
• Define the capability roadmap, hiring strategy, and skill mix for the team.
• Foster a strong engineering, analytics, and data culture.

5. India Site Leadership

• Provide leadership for the Core Data team in India, driving engagement, culture, and capability growth.
• Build and scale the India BI, data, and AI capability by defining hiring plans, team structure, and long-term talent strategy.
• Lead and mentor engineering leaders and data leaders within the India organization.
• Partner closely with HR on hiring strategy, salary benchmarking, career frameworks, and talent development.
• Create a strong engineering culture with emphasis on innovation, ownership, and continuous learning in data and AI technologies.
• Support development of AI and advanced analytics capabilities aligned with enterprise priorities.
• Work closely with global leadership to ensure strong alignment between India teams and global data strategy.
• Establish India as a strategic capability hub supporting enterprise BI, data, and AI initiatives.

What you'll bring

• 10–15+ years of experience in Business Intelligence, Data & Analytics, or Enterprise Data platforms, with strong understanding of modern data ecosystems and BI technologies.
• Proven experience leading enterprise-wide BI or analytics initiatives, including defining measurement frameworks, governance models, and enabling data-driven decision making across the organization.
• Strong leadership experience in building and scaling teams, ideally including experience establishing or growing engineering, BI, or data organizations in global or capability hub environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor engineering or data leaders, fostering a high-performance culture focused on innovation, ownership, and continuous learning in data and AI technologies.
• Strong executive presence and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders across business and technology functions in a federated organization.
• Ability to translate complex business and technology challenges into structured, scalable solutions, driving clarity and alignment across multiple teams.
• Experience working in global and matrixed environments, collaborating effectively across regions, cultures, and organizational boundaries.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, with the ability to shape direction, define frameworks, and bring structure to evolving data and analytics landscapes.
• Engineering mindset with a strong understanding of data platforms, BI architecture, and analytics capabilities, enabling informed decisions on tools, platforms, and operating models.
• Passion for building data-driven organizations, with interest in advancing BI, analytics, and AI capabilities to deliver measurable business impact.

Why This Role Matters

• Enterprise-wide impact with executive visibility
• Opportunity to define how Data & AI success is measured at Volvo Cars
• Platform to influence enterprise decision-making at the highest levels
• Unique combination of strategy, governance, technology, change leadership and organizational influence
• Dual leadership mandate: global enterprise BI and India site leadership.

Volvo Cars. For Life.

For nearly a century, Volvo Cars has empowered people to move freely in a personal, sustainable and safe way. Today, we are driving bold advancements in electrification, sustainability and automotive safety. To realise our ambitious vision, we are seeking innovative minds who are ready to tackle the challenges of tomorrow – today.

In our company, we believe extraordinary things are achieved by ordinary people with the drive to make a difference.

In this recruitment process, we are introducing Taira, an AI chatbot. Taira is an artificial intelligence powered by a secure, enterprise-grade language model from MyInterview. Taira will collect the information you submit and invite you to a short, guided chat and video interview with the bot. During the interview, Taira will ask questions related to the position you have applied for. You can start the interview at your convenience, pause it, and resume it later. Make sure you have a working camera and microphone ready before you begin. You are also welcome to ask Taira questions during the interview.

Taira will review the transcript of your interview and assess your answers against the competency requirements stated in the job posting. These requirements have been established by our recruiters and form the basis for Taira’s interview summary. Taira cannot read facial expressions or tone of voice, but all recorded material is shared with our recruiters along with the AI-generated summary. Based on this overall picture, our recruiters make decisions about which candidates move forward in the process. Our goal is to give every applicant a fair chance to be fully evaluated.

This job posting is part of a pilot project where we are testing the use of the AI tool Taira as a new step in our recruitment process. The tool acts as a support for our recruitment team but does not make any decisions on its own – all decisions are reviewed by humans.

You can read more about how we use AI in recruitment here: Information sheet regarding the processing of your data by My Interview