Senior Digital & IT Project Manager

Volvo Group; Oostakker; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Volvo Group Ghent is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead strategic IT and digitalization initiatives. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, IT professionals, and external partners to improve production and supporting processes.

You will translate business objectives into tangible results, ensuring delivery within scope, time, budget, and quality. A strong, proactive leader will drive governance and cross-functional collaboration across the organization.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years delivering complex IT projects and/or digital transformation initiatives.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in IT, Engineering, Business Administration, or equivalent through experience.
• Proven experience leading complex IT or digitalization projects.
• Experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or logistics environment is a strong asset.
• Experience with vendor management and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead IT projects or IT workstreams within business projects from initiation through successful delivery.
• Establish project structures, governance, and methodologies tailored to the project's context.
• Monitor and manage scope, planning, budget, quality, risks, and dependencies.
• Drive the achievement of agreed KPIs and business objectives.
• Organize decision-making and escalation processes within the project governance framework.
• Act as the bridge between business, IT, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
• Facilitate collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
• Develop and execute communication and change management plans.
• Ensure clear roles, responsibilities, and expectations throughout the project.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate project risks.
• Coordinate external suppliers and partners.
• Manage dependencies related to infrastructure, cybersecurity, integrations, and operational processes.
• Proactively monitor issues and ensure timely decision-making.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Proactive mindset

Education

IT/Engineering/Business degree

Tools

Microsoft 365

SAP ERP

Cybersecurity

Data analytics

Cloud technologies

Job description

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Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.

The Volvo Trucks plant in Ghent is the largest truck manufacturing facility within the Volvo Group worldwide. Every day, nearly 3,000 colleagues assemble top-quality trucks here. Innovation and continuous improvement have been at the core of our operations since day one. We firmly believe in the philosophy of Lean Manufacturing, where quality, safety, and environmental care are our top priorities. Our site consists of many different departments, but we all share one thing in common: a passion for what we do.

Meet Your Team

As a Digital & IT Project Manager, you will lead strategic IT and digitalization projects within Volvo Trucks Ghent. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, IT specialists, and external partners to deliver solutions that make our production and supporting processes more efficient, secure, and future proof.

What you will do

You translate business objectives into concrete results and ensure projects are successfully delivered within scope, timeline, budget, and quality requirements.

Responsibilities:

Project Delivery

• Lead IT projects or IT workstreams within business projects from initiation through successful delivery.
• Establish project structures, governance, and methodologies tailored to the project's context.
• Monitor and manage scope, planning, budget, quality, risks, and dependencies.
• Drive the achievement of agreed KPIs and business objectives.
• Organize decision-making and escalation processes within the project governance framework.

Stakeholder & Change Management

• Act as the bridge between business, IT, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
• Facilitate collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
• Develop and execute communication and change management plans.
• Ensure clear roles, responsibilities, and expectations throughout the project.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate project risks.
• Coordinate external suppliers and partners.
• Manage dependencies related to infrastructure, cybersecurity, integrations, and operational processes.
• Proactively monitor issues and ensure timely decision-making.

Who are you?

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience successfully delivering complex IT projects and/or digital transformation initiatives.
• Bachelor's or master’s degree in IT, Engineering, Business Administration, or equivalent through experience.
• Proven experience leading complex IT or digitalization projects.
• Experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or logistics environment is a strong asset.
• Experience with vendor management and cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills without formal hierarchical authority.
• Strong organizational capabilities and a results-oriented mindset.
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to align multiple stakeholders around a common objective.
• Proactive and pragmatic approach.
• Hands‑on mentality: provides direction when needed while also actively contributing to execution, removing obstacles, and ensuring results are achieved. (This is considered a particularly strong attribute.)

Knowledge

• Project management methodologies (Agile, Hybrid, Waterfall).
• Stakeholder and change management.
• Risk, budget, and planning management.
• Knowledge of IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud technologies, and digital solutions.
• Knowledge of manufacturing and business processes is an advantage.

Project Domains

• Infrastructure
• Microsoft 365
• ERP - SAP
• Cybersecurity
• Data & Analytics

Almost convinced?

A successful IT Project Manager:

• Creates clarity in complex situations.
• Brings business and IT together around a shared vision.
• Ensures predictable and controlled project execution.
• Removes obstacles so teams can focus on value creation.
• Delivers tangible business results through digital and IT solutions.

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Who we are and what we believe in
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.

Every day, Volvo Group products and services ensure that people have food on the table, children arrive safely at school and roads and buildings can be constructed. Looking ahead,we are committed to driving the transition to sustainable and safe transport, mobility and infrastructure solutions toward a net-zero society.

Joining Volvo Group, you will work with some of the world’s most iconic brands and be part of a global and leading industrial company that is harnessing automated driving, electromobility and connectivity.

Our people are passionate about what they do, they aim for high performance and thrive on teamwork and learning. Everyday life at Volvo is defined by a climate of support, care and mutual respect.

If you aspire to grow and make an impact, join us on our journey to create a better and more resilient society for the coming generations.