Lars Westlund Email & Phone Number

Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County, Sweden

· Explore, build and iterate new business models of digital products· Drive a long-term vision to build a best-in-class digital product around Sustainability Insights· Conduct user research and usability studies· Craft a product vision (short- and long-term) and convert it to a concrete strategy· Participate in market research, validation, and white space analysis to identify opportunities for new or existing features and functionalities· Build roadmaps that will be… Show more · Explore, build and iterate new business models of digital products· Drive a long-term vision to build a best-in-class digital product around Sustainability Insights· Conduct user research and usability studies· Craft a product vision (short- and long-term) and convert it to a concrete strategy· Participate in market research, validation, and white space analysis to identify opportunities for new or existing features and functionalities· Build roadmaps that will be reflected in the company's broader portfolio planning· Partner with IT to manage roadmap and backlog, ensuring that IT delivers capabilities on time and per expectation· Oversee requirements discovery, solution design, user story writing, feature development, and user acceptance testing· Partner with executive team to identify key capabilities needed as well as potential issues· Partner regularly with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on feature development and prioritization· Collaborating with designers, developers, and research teams throughout the process· Monitor and evaluate product performance to facilitate continuous iteration and improvementWE BELIEVE NOTHING SHOULD GO TO WASTEAt Stena Recycling, we want to create a truly circular society where nothing goes to waste. We provide reliable waste collection, innovative reuse services and advanced recycling on an industrial level. We also offer comprehensive recycling solutions and circular services, which play a key role in the transition to a circular economy. Show less

Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area

• Build effective teams and develop talents.• Develop, support and coach employees to bring out the best of them and allowing them to grow.• Secure talent, recruitment, new employee introduction, competence development and salary setting.• Lead the Shared Professional Services team with a clear purpose and drive cross-organisational / cross-product initiatives including launches towards markets.• Handle complexity and create clarity through effective communication working with… Show more • Build effective teams and develop talents.• Develop, support and coach employees to bring out the best of them and allowing them to grow.• Secure talent, recruitment, new employee introduction, competence development and salary setting.• Lead the Shared Professional Services team with a clear purpose and drive cross-organisational / cross-product initiatives including launches towards markets.• Handle complexity and create clarity through effective communication working with different stakeholders.• Manage the scope and responsibility setup of the team, including vision and mission (with the members).• Making sure we deliver awesome business value globally. Show less

Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County, Sweden

• Salesforce Reboot Program (2021 Nov - 2022 Jun):Purpose of the program: To assess the pain points in the current implementation of Salesforce within Volvo Cars and make recommendation for how to future proof it amongst other for the Direct to Consumer business model. Responsible as Program Manager together with top talents to perform stakeholder interviews, gathering of business requirements, historical decisions and added capabilities since introduction. Through supportive collaboration… Show more • Salesforce Reboot Program (2021 Nov - 2022 Jun):Purpose of the program: To assess the pain points in the current implementation of Salesforce within Volvo Cars and make recommendation for how to future proof it amongst other for the Direct to Consumer business model. Responsible as Program Manager together with top talents to perform stakeholder interviews, gathering of business requirements, historical decisions and added capabilities since introduction. Through supportive collaboration with Salesforce experts produce recommended ways forward to steering committee and responsible owners.• B2B Fleet Program (2021 Apr - 2021 Nov): Purpose of the program: To enable Volvo Cars to be able to sell fleet cars online.Responsible workstream lead for specific area within the program, driving key topics, challenges and clarifying processes as well as deliveries within that workstream to a certain level together with subject matter experts, other workstreams or product teams.• XC40 BEV Online Sales Program (2020 Oct - 2021 Jun): Purpose of the program: To enable Volvo Cars to sell online fully electric XC40 BEVs to markets.Responsible for certain program deliveries for those five markets offering Care By Volvo subscriptions.• Site to Store Program (2020 Oct - 2021 Jun): Responsible for holding together and secure deliveries and time plan for certain parts of the global Site to Store Program. The purpose of the program was to enable Volvo Cars to sell our fully electric XC40 online to our customers on the markets currently lacking the Care by Volvo offer. Show less

Gothenburg, Sweden

Business/Strategic/Product responsible for the Multi-Brand ID (Volvo ID, Polestar ID...).Supporting the members of the Volvo Car Group with the digital key for their consumers to interact with the members eco-systems of connected products/services.• Managing Multi-Brand ID Strategy and evolution of the service.• Responsible to have the holistic view and the way Volvo Car Group members use it for services.• Receiver for new proposals as well as securing the customer… Show more Business/Strategic/Product responsible for the Multi-Brand ID (Volvo ID, Polestar ID...).Supporting the members of the Volvo Car Group with the digital key for their consumers to interact with the members eco-systems of connected products/services.• Managing Multi-Brand ID Strategy and evolution of the service.• Responsible to have the holistic view and the way Volvo Car Group members use it for services.• Receiver for new proposals as well as securing the customer experience.• GDPR responsible for the processing activities involved for the Multi-Brand End Consumer ID.• Handling and prioritizing changes.• Reviewing supporting material.• Handling market dialogs and communication regarding the ID.• Functional owner of the Multi-Brand ID in the work with R&D in how it is being used in existing and future cars. Show less

Gothenburg, Sweden

Program Manager:• Responsible for aligning program activities to existing sub project plans and deliveries.• Secure collaboration within program towards common goal and making sure it is being delivered. • Responsibility to follow up on a weekly basis all the development and rollout projects within CRM.• Secure continuous improvements and proper risk management. • Providing input towards strategy and new business opportunities.• Managing steering committee meetings… Show more Program Manager:• Responsible for aligning program activities to existing sub project plans and deliveries.• Secure collaboration within program towards common goal and making sure it is being delivered. • Responsibility to follow up on a weekly basis all the development and rollout projects within CRM.• Secure continuous improvements and proper risk management. • Providing input towards strategy and new business opportunities.• Managing steering committee meetings when needed.• Preparing decision material and business cases.• Securing that gaps or issues that fall between projects or organizational parts are being highlighted and taken action upon.• Managing lesson learnt sessions after each project delivery to secure learnings.Business Owner for Volvo ID:• Managing Volvo ID Strategy and evolution of the function.• Responsible to have the holistic view and the way Volvo Cars use it for services.• Receiver for new proposals as well as securing the customer experience.• Handling and prioritizing changes.• Reviewing supporting material.• Handling market dialogs and communication regarding Volvo ID.• Functional owner of the Volvo ID in the work with R&D.Business Application Owner for Web Forms for Marketers:• Acting on market needs for call to action forms such as Test drive request etc.• Securing the progress and structure towards Suppliers and ITBusiness Application Owner for Lead App:• Used for capturing leads during events etc.• Securing the progress and structure towards Suppliers and ITProduct Owner for Lead Nurturing Program:• Prioritizing the development activities (backlog).• Owner of business requirements for Lead Dossier.• Securing the progress and structure towards IT.The Volvo Car Corporation is one of the car industry’s strongest brands, with a long and proud history of world-leading innovations. Founded in Gothenburg, Sweden, by Gustaf Larson and Assar Gabrielsson, the first car left the factory on 14 April, 1927. Show less

Gothenburg, Sweden

• Program Manager / Project Manager• Specialised within Cross-Functional business development• Business Analysis / Organisational Development.• Customer Relations and Sales• Responsible for taking a project from idea to delivery.• Previously coach/manager for consultants at Elicit with responsibility to make sure their personal development goes forward, together with yearly appraisal meetings and salary negotiations.Elicit is a Gothenburg based strongly value driven… Show more • Program Manager / Project Manager• Specialised within Cross-Functional business development• Business Analysis / Organisational Development.• Customer Relations and Sales• Responsible for taking a project from idea to delivery.• Previously coach/manager for consultants at Elicit with responsibility to make sure their personal development goes forward, together with yearly appraisal meetings and salary negotiations.Elicit is a Gothenburg based strongly value driven company founded in 1999. It has won several awards such as the 2004 Sirius prize: best IT solution and best businessolution for Axess Aktuten Online. 3 times in a row on the Dagens Industri Gasellistan over the fastest growing companies with sustained profitabillity. 2011 awarded 3rd best place to work in Sweden. Show less

Gothenburg, Sweden

Program manager for Connected Customer, a cross-functional business development program within Connectivity for Marketing Sales and Service at Volvo Car Corporation.Main deliveries within Connectivity/Connected Car:• Connected Service Booking• Volvo ID• Integration of Customer and Car data• Legal aspects• Market rollout and support of deliveries.Main responsibilities:• Responsible for a cross-functional team with members from all the other business… Show more Program manager for Connected Customer, a cross-functional business development program within Connectivity for Marketing Sales and Service at Volvo Car Corporation.Main deliveries within Connectivity/Connected Car:• Connected Service Booking• Volvo ID• Integration of Customer and Car data• Legal aspects• Market rollout and support of deliveries.Main responsibilities:• Responsible for a cross-functional team with members from all the other business initiatives incl. R&D when it comes to deliveries within connectivity.• Acting as the business part towards Connected Car IT Program.• Responsible for creating management plans, risk elimination, resource allocation, time plans, etc.• Responsible for scope issues and oversee the progress of involved business and IT project deliveries.• Handling business cases for stakeholders.• Manageing steering committee meetings.• Providing together with program team, input towards strategy and new business opportunities.• Creating and evaluating new processes for VCC when it comes to connectivity.• Responsible for keeping program on track and on quality whilst progressing through program gate together with securing funding and manageing budgets.• Responsible for aligning program activities to existing sub project plans and deliveries.• Handling internal conflicts both between persons and organisational parts.• Secure collaboration towards the common goal and making sure it is being delivered.The Volvo Car Corporation is one of the car industry’s strongest brands, with a long and proud history of world-leading innovations. Founded in Gothenburg, Sweden, by Gustaf Larson and Assar Gabrielsson, the first car left the factory on 14 April, 1927. Show less

Gothenburg, Sweden

• Business BA for Connectivity within Connected Car program.• Responsible for requirement elicitation and coordination between several projects and stakeholders.• Main contact between Business, R&D and IT.• Responsible for elicitation of the business requirements.• Handle sign-off meetings between Feature Teams on the R&D side.• Facilitating workshops• Presenting business cases for stakeholders.• Looking ahead whilst making sure the details are not forgotten.•… Show more • Business BA for Connectivity within Connected Car program.• Responsible for requirement elicitation and coordination between several projects and stakeholders.• Main contact between Business, R&D and IT.• Responsible for elicitation of the business requirements.• Handle sign-off meetings between Feature Teams on the R&D side.• Facilitating workshops• Presenting business cases for stakeholders.• Looking ahead whilst making sure the details are not forgotten.• Managing the BA work between Business and IT in order to secure delivery on time and on quality.• Consequence analysis of scope changes.• Process development• Organisational developmentThe Volvo Car Corporation is one of the car industry’s strongest brands, with a long and proud history of world-leading innovations. Founded in Gothenburg, Sweden, by Gustaf Larson and Assar Gabrielsson, the first car left the factory on 14 April, 1927. Show less

Witney, England

Product development of HR web applications based on the theories of the Requisite Organization by Dr. Elliott Jaques.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------AngloGold Ashanti [ http://www.anglogoldashanti.co.za ]• Project Responsible for phase 2 of AngloGold Ashanti Systems4People.• The largest project in the history of 360 partnership when it comes to revenue.• Lead programmer in the same project with… Show more Product development of HR web applications based on the theories of the Requisite Organization by Dr. Elliott Jaques.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------AngloGold Ashanti [ http://www.anglogoldashanti.co.za ]• Project Responsible for phase 2 of AngloGold Ashanti Systems4People.• The largest project in the history of 360 partnership when it comes to revenue.• Lead programmer in the same project with responsibility of managing resources and activities and timeplans.• Handled, distributed and verified most of the changes that the customer wanted to incorporate in the upgraded version of the organisational development application.Headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, AngloGold Ashanti has 20 operations in 10 countries on four continents, as well as several exploration programmes in both the established and new gold producing regions of the world. AngloGold Ashanti employed 61,242 people, including contractors, in 2011-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Glowinkowski International [http://www.glowinkowski.com]• Responsible for implementing multiligual support in the HR software adding the Russian language.• Project Management.• Main contact for Glowinkowski with responsibility to take in their input on the changes being made.• .NET Web development including SQL Server, VB.NET, APS.NET, JQuery, Linq.• Documentation.Glowinkowski International is an organisation working with coaching and consultancy practice. Together with a research institute that underpins their approach and toolkit and accreditation academy for transferring their knowledge and skills. Glowinkowski focuses on helping organisations drive up their performance through leadership development and behaviour coaching.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Show less

Gothenburg, Sweden

• Consultant with responsiblity to design and create applications based on customer requirements.Working with customers such as: • Atra Zeneca (Clinical Trials). • SJ Green Cargo (Cargo Logistics). • Stormarknadspress (News Publishing). • Göteborgsvarvet.com (Half-marathon, 2012 it was 44 093 runners)• Techniques used: • ASP Development. • VB 6 Development. • SQL Server Database Design

Diploma Program Manager, Program Management

Education provided by Cordial School of Management

Bachelor, Computer Science

Economics / Marketing