Business Development Manager – Circular Battery Recycling

Scania is now undergoing a transformation from being a supplier of trucks, buses and engines to a supplier of complete and sustainable transport solutions.

Do you want to build Scania’s future and lead the electrification shift? The world of transport and logistics is electrifying rapidly and at Scania we are facing the biggest shift in our history. Our target is to take a leading role in the transformation by introducing new tailor-made products, services and sustainable transport solutions. Besides a whole new product range this will change the way we do business and interact with our customers. 

Batteries will play a crucial part of the new landscape and will be the key to future profitability and performance, both for customers and for Scania. Sales & Marketing has therefore established a business function dedicated to battery business development, and we are now looking for a new colleague to build our operational and commercial capabilities and partnerships in the field of battery recycling and recovery impact assessment.

Battery recycling and recovery impact assessment has many touch points on Scania’s value chain. So, this role requires, besides operational and business development skills, a high degree of flexibility and a will to work cross-functionally with functions like R&D, Purchasing, Logistics and Commercial Operations within Scania, but also with other parts of the VW Group and with present and future battery recycling partners.

 

Work description

Our science based target requires an accelerated roll out of electric vehicles. This places high demands on product and commercial development, as well as on partnership driven solutions around infrastructure. The purpose of the Battery Business function is to accelerate vehicle sales by creating solutions to ensure highest possible residual value, managing risk and exploring new business models and partnerships – all in a sustainable and viable way. The role of the business developer that we are now recruiting, is to be our backbone with respect to battery recycling and battery recovery impact assessment. 

 Task examples:


• Being responsible for the ECOBAT recycling set-up at Scania. ECOBAT is an European battery recycling set-up established and maintained by VW. Your responsibility will be to help and support the European part of the Scania service organisation to implement, operate and follow-up the result of ECOBAT. This job means process as well a budget related tasks. Further, your responsibility will be, together with Scania purchasing, to cooperate with VW to further develop ECOBAT.
• Outside Europe, there is currently no centrally recommended recycling set-up. An important part of your job will therefore be to find ways to support business units outside Europe with recycling set-ups. This work can preferably be carried out in close cooperation with VW, identified potential global or regional recycling partners, and of course together with the local Scania business units in questions.
• Overall, together with partners like Northvolt, your job is to make battery recycling a truly sustainable business, turning today’s costs into future revenues.
• In cooperation with other functions like R&D and purchasing, your responsibility is also to quantify, monitor and report on Scania’s environmental impact related to reuse, 2nd life applications and recycling of batteries. This job includes to assist and support the sales organisations for trucks, buses and power solutions in their tender work, incorporating and describing how Scania work with batteries from 1st life applications via direct reuse, repurposing to recycling, and the result thereof.
• You will be our battery sustainability expert, and as such you will represent our group and the eMobility section at Scania in various environmental and legal forums, for instance in the ongoing Scania internal review work of the EU Battery Directive. Part this job is of course also to package and report back findings and learnings to the group, the eMobility section and Scania at large.  

 

Your profile

We are looking for a well organised and curious self-starter, who takes responsibility for transforming thoughts and ideas into concrete usable and scalable results, but also takes responsibility for monitoring and control of the ongoing recycling operations. The work is a combination of hands-on tasks together with long-term business strategy development and implementation. You should enjoy working with environmental, technology and business development in close cooperation with various stakeholders in a high paced environment. You have an open mind and enjoy building things in a context where the road forward is not always clear. Previous experience from working with batteries, circular economy in general and/or recycling is considered positive. Previous experience from supplier/partner negotiations, other commercial interactions and/or project management is also seen as a merit. You have a commercial and/or technical university degree and master English with high proficiency.

 

We offer

We offer you a challenging job in a dynamic environment at the forefront of electrification with good opportunities for professional and personal growth.

  

For further information

Please contact Patrice Tshibanda, Acting Head of Battery Business Development, Sales & Marketing. +46 (0)70 51 85026

 

Application

We are looking forward receiving your application includig CV and a motivational letter no later than october 31.

 


Scania is a world-leading provider of transport solutions. Together with our partners and customers we are driving the shift towards a sustainable transport system. In 2020, we delivered 66,900 trucks, 5,200 buses as well as 11,000 industrial and marine power systems to our customers. Net sales totalled to over SEK 125 billion, of which over 20 percent were services-related. Founded in 1891, Scania now operates in more than 100 countries and employs some 50,000 people. Research and development are mainly concentrated in Sweden. Production takes place in Europe and Latin America with regional product centres in Africa, Asia and Eurasia. Scania is part of TRATON GROUP. For more information visit: www.scania.com.