Thomas Arnoldsson

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Volvo B; Transportbranschen (lastbil och järnväg) industry

January 2012 – October 2012 (10 months)

Project Manager för several assignments, leading teams of highly skilled consultants and business resources.

Assignments:
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Project Manager - Aftermarket Business Development
Management of a high-level business development project, consisting of 9 workstreams. Leading a team of 8-10 high-level managers and additional management consulting resources.

Main deliverables:
- Complete organizational design of the area of business (concerning some 600 employees)
- Re-design of governance structures, including governance design approval of executive management.
- Changes to internal business model, securing funds for business area growth.
- Process improvements and changes to customer collaboration models to secure smooth market launches of aftermarket products.
- Initiation of Aftermarket Product Portfolio Model, including current-state mapping.

The project delivered business growth of the business area of appr 600 MSEK in the first year.
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Project Owner - Purchasing Transition
Managing a team of Business Analysts for collection of internal/external data to support a major re-organization, concerning some 1600 employees.

Main Deliverables:
- Complete analysis of the purchasing spend
- Re-structuring of purchasing segments, including part mapping towards new segments.
- Complete analysis of current-state employee situation.
- Support in organizational design and line organization work load estimate.
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Program Manager - Aftermarket Portfolio
Leading a team of management consultants in defining the program set-up in terms of scope, governance, resources, planning and expected outcome. Setting up the base structures for managing Aftermarket Product Portfolio.

Main Deliverables:
- Complete Program Plan and Roadmap
- Project approach for building the Aftermarket Product Portfolio
- Set-up of program governance structures

Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; IT-branschen industry

March 2010 – January 2012 (1 year 11 months)

Subject Matter Expert and Project Manager for several assignments.

Assignmennts (selection):
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Project Manager - Delta -project
Responsible for the IT-separation at VCC Purchasing following the sale of Volvo Car Cooperation, collaborating closely with the business to secure business capabilities post-sale.

Main Deliverables:
- Identify concerned IT-applikations (appr 75)
- Evaluate application relevance and importance for continued business
- Define roadmap for each application.
- Set-up necessary inter-compay agreements
-Initate and secure funding for projects required to secure business continuation.
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Subject Matter Expert - Part Lifetime Prediction
SME in a project for developing methods and tools for predicting part life time. The project also included data modelling for collection of vehicle data.

Main deliverables:
- Documented methodology for assessing and predicting part life time.
- Business Analysis and Business Development for the commercial value of predicted part life time.
- Data modelling of input to methodology
- Data modelling of output from methodology

The project was driven in close cooperation with quality and technical experts in the business.

Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; IT-branschen industry

May 2005 – April 2010 (5 years)

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Volvo B; Transportbranschen (lastbil och järnväg) industry

2000 – 2005 (5 years)

Privately Held; 10,001+ employees; Fordonsbranschen industry

2000 – 2005 (5 years)