Head of Cybersecurity Coordination hos Volvo Group i Göteborg

Coordination, alignment, and validation

• Drive alignment across cybersecurity teams and relevant stakeholders on horizontal topics, cross-cutting priorities, and significant cybersecurity interdependencies.
• Identify fragmentation, gaps, or misalignment across the cybersecurity function and lead efforts to achieve practical convergence.
• Translate agreed leadership priorities into defined actions, clear ownership, and structured follow-up.
• Monitor progress on cross-functional and high-priority cybersecurity topics, and surface matters that require clarification, escalation, or direct intervention.
• Lead and facilitate selected discussions, workshops, and follow-through activities to build and sustain shared direction.
• Represent Enterprise Cybersecurity in designated forums where institutional credibility, informed perspective, and reliable follow-through are required.

Management team contribution

• Serve as a full member of the Enterprise Cybersecurity Management Team.
• Contribute cross-domain cybersecurity awareness, enterprise perspective, and sound judgment to leadership deliberations and collective priorities.

What success looks like

This role is performing well when:

• Leadership discussions on significant cybersecurity topics are well-prepared, analytically grounded, and result in clear direction.
• Alignment across cybersecurity teams and adjacent stakeholders is stronger and more durable, with fewer gaps and less friction on cross-cutting topics.
• Cross-functional priorities that require sustained coordination move forward with defined ownership, visible progress, and disciplined follow-through.
• The Enterprise Cybersecurity Management Team benefits from a member who strengthens its collective judgment, range, and capacity to act on complex matters.
• Relevant external developments across the threat landscape, regulatory environment, and industry practice are identified and interpreted with sufficient lead time to inform leadership decisions.

Required qualifications and experience

• Significant experience in cybersecurity and technology risk within a large and complex organization.
• Broad understanding across multiple cybersecurity disciplines, including technical and operational cybersecurity, security architecture, secure digital product development, governance, and risk management.
• Demonstrated ability to investigate emerging or complex cybersecurity topics thoroughly and translate findings into clear analysis, recommendations, and leadership material.
• Strong critical thinking and structured problem-solving capability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to produce high-quality materials for senior audiences.

Preferred experience

• Experience developing position papers, decision proposals, and executive briefings on complex cybersecurity topics.
• Experience interpreting and normalizing analyst research, industry practice, and market developments and translating them into actionable enterprise cybersecurity guidance.
• Experience operating across both the strategic and operational dimensions of cybersecurity.