Customer Project Manager

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our Automotive and Foundry team in our mission to contribute to a greener future. By joining us, you will be a key player in establishing and maintaining relationships with our customers and directly contribute to establishing and delivering our batteries to our clients.
About the job
As a Customer Project Manager, your main responsibility will focus on driving customer development projects from start to finish. You will have the opportunity to take full ownership of customer projects and liaise customers with the internal engineering and operations team. This role will enable you to create and maintain relationships with Europe’s automotive key players while making oil history. As a Customer Project Manager, we expect you to have previously managed technical automotive customer projects. knowledge of Lithium-Ion batteries or e-mobility is preferred but not required. This role will also require heavy travel mostly within Europe.
About You
A successful Customer Project Manager at Northvolt is flexible, meticulous, curious, and eager to learn from others. We are looking for someone that wants to help us write our success story. Finally, we are looking for a positive mind and a self-driver, willing to take initiative and walk the extra mile to achieve their goals. Qualities the automotive team particularly cherishes are a sense of quality, friendliness, grit, and a sense of humour.
About the team
You will be part of the Automotive and Foundry team based in Stockholm and Västerås. The total business unit is about 30 rock stars with the task to generate business from our existing and new customers, lead the complete projects from customer requirements to mass production in one of Northvolt’s factories. From customer lead to delivered product – together and in collaboration with many of the fantastic functions within Northvolt. Our goal is to grow Northvolt's business in line with the expectation to scale the company!
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
· Take full ownership and drive customer development projects from the planning to the execution phase.
· Be the point of contact and liaison between Northvolt’s internal engineering and our customers.
· Create and maintain meaningful relationships with relevant key players and customers, where traveling is often required.
Northvolt is an equal opportunity employer. We're a diverse group of individuals, united by a common mission, who recognize that while our actions as individuals have a role to play in driving Northvolt towards its goals, we always seek to move forward as a team. We offer you an open and welcoming atmosphere where we win as a team – and fail as a team. Northvolt is growing at the speed of light and we are a strong believer in internal career development. For us it’s important to look at your skills and potential, please refrain from including your picture and age with your application to help us with this.
Apply with a CV in English or your complete LinkedIn profile.
Full-time employment, fixed salary.
The planned starting date is ASAP.
We believe that you have:
A MSc or BSc in Engineering
6+ years working experience in the automotive or battery industry
2+ years working in commercial facing roles
Experience individually setting up and driving customer projects in the aforementioned relevant industries
The ability to lead through motivation and delegation of authority and tasks – in parallel with the willingness to act on all levels when needed, to get things done and reach the set-out goal.
Excellent English- written and oral skills

Bonus points for:
Experience and interest in the manufacturing industry
Fluency in other languages (German, Japanese, Swedish, French)
Experience from a multi-cultural or start-up environment.



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