Director Business Control

"Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to driving prosperity and shaping the future landscape through sustainable transport, mobility, and infrastructure solutions. By offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity.

Unique Opportunity within Volvo GTO: Director Business Control Tuve Plant

As our current Director Business Control at Tuve plant will move on to another role, this key management role opens for you here in sunny Tuve.

Tuve is the introduction plant for Volvo HD Trucks, where products meet industrial process for the first time. We are transforming the plant into the future to meet the high ambition on sustainable solutions we have within the group! Innovations within transport will reshape the world we live in tomorrow. Do you want to be part of and contribute to this exciting challenge?
As the Director Business Control, you will hold a key role in the plant as well as in the management team. Our management team is diverse, we like unique people with remarkable talents, and we operate as one team. We care about people, growth, excellence, and results. In this position you will report directly to the Vice President Operations Tuve Plant. 


You will lead a team of 6 people; support, coach and unleash the full potential of our talents. We are looking for someone who loves people, enjoy leadership, show commitment, and have fun. You need to be passionate about making things better for our plant and have a drive for results. We strive to become more digital, more transparent, and always correct. You and your team are story tellers, you tell the story of the numbers to the whole company. What is the reality behind the numbers and how can data support us to proactively make the right decisions? You work close with both the business and the numbers. 
You have successful experience from networking effectively through a diverse contact base and building enduring relationships across functional and geographical areas.  
The position requires strong abilities in leading change, managing interaction with multi-stakeholders and bridging knowledge between local processes and central processes. Communication and ability to transmit information accurately and understandably are therefore core skills. 
Your coaching leadership skill is key to continue our improvement journey. The plant has a fantastic and inspiring but also demanding journey in front of us, we will succeed together, and you are an important key for this success.

What we absolutely need you to do

•    Enhance the strategy and communicate it so that people understand what it’s all about – our future. You transform with Vision!
•    Speak up, influence to create positive change in the complete end-to-end flow. You lead with Passion!
•    Be a moral hero so that you earn the authority to inspire greatness in those around you. You perform with Purpose!
The ticket to ride
•    You have solid experience from industrial controlling 
•    You have initiated and driven change with global impact and stakeholders in different parts of the organization
•    Good understanding of the business and ability to take a holistic view
•    Experience from working in a lean manufacturing environment is a merit
•    Bachelor’s degree in business administration (or similar)
•    Proven leadership capabilities and experience as a manager
•    Minimum 5+ years working experience in the business control field
•    You are data driven and a great storyteller, a positive thinker and an open-minded communicator and interpreter
•    You have the courage and experience to questions status quo, have a growth mindset and challenges yourself and people around you
•    Great networking skills
•    Excellent computer skills and knowledge/ability to work in various systems/tools, especially SAP. Master Finance, SAP VGCS, Excel, and Power BI
•    As we are a truly global and diverse company you also need great communication skills in English, spoken and written.
If you are looking for a challenge in a high pace environment, have a deep understanding of our industry and a true passion for customer success - we are hopefully the obvious choice - you are most welcome with your application.
We need your application the 28th of June, at the latest.
For more information please contact:
Karin Ahlbäck Herner, Director HR & Safety + 46 739 024328
Peter Setterstig, acting VP Operations Tuve Plant +46 739 027343