Global Maintenance Portfolio Manager

"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.

Our headquarters are in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Group shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm."

What you will do
Are you a skilled person with strong drive, interpersonal capabilities, customer focus and a background in automotive, interested in playing a significant role in shaping the future for Volvo Buses products? 
If you thrive in leading change and can create a climate of cross functional teamwork where everyone is accountable and proud of the products and solutions, then we are hoping you will join our team in the position as Global Maintenance Portfolio manager within our product planning function. You will report to the Head of Global Product Planning.



This is us, your new colleagues

Global Product Planning is a team of 10 people within Product & Project Management Department.
At Product planning we keep up to date with competition, market, and technology development, as well as our current product performance through direct involvement and a global network. Through a global and long-term perspective, we are on top of trends as well as current and future opportunities and goals. Based on investigations and a global business perspective, we recommend direction and way forward in all products related strategic topics to the company.
Considering the continued urbanisation world-wide, there is an increasing concern about congestion and the environment. Since public transporting by bus plays a vital role in the solution, we expect an interesting and challenging future.
We are now looking for a Maintenance Portfolio manager, who has the drive and passion to contribute to Volvo Buses profitability and who sees that the key to success in this role is cross functional co-operation and well-balanced prioritization of project initiatives to meet future business goals.

Job description

You will head the planning of our portfolio to ensure that we start the prioritized project initiatives in due time to secure predictable launch. You will gather our different initiatives and prioritize start up together with our Range Management Team. Creating the startup priority and ensuring good planning requires stakeholder management skills and cross functional co-operation. 
We also strive to improve the way of working so it is important that you can drive change.
 You will have the opportunity to work in a highly international and multi-functional network environment consisting of our Business units, Product planning, Product Development, After Market and Production. 
Who are you?
We believe it is the right mind-set that will make a difference within our organization. If you see yourself working in an environment that challenges you to combine your strategic approach with a more hands on attitude, then we believe you have the right ´skilled to be successful in this position.
Your main responsibilities will include: 
•    Keep the portfolio of new initiatives updated and prioritized to ensure that correct initiatives will be started in due time. (This is an input to PI-planning every 10 weeks)
•    Propose portfolio priorities to Range management team and identify bottle necks to resolve.
•    Plan and balance the portfolio towards the availability of different functions; PD, Production and Aftermarket.
•    Stakeholder management and communication skills.
•    Improving the way of working to improve efficiency.
•    Contribute to predictable launch by a good start-up.

Who are we looking for

The ideal candidate for this position is passionate about change and planning. You have experience from project and process development. 
You have a have a customer and business-oriented mind-set, with experience from managing the needs of stakeholders from a variety of cultures and backgrounds. 

The person that we are looking for has good networking skills, strong interpersonal capability, and integrity. You are organized and structured, but also flexible with a “can do” attitude.
 Are you ready to take part in shaping the future within Volvo Buses? We are looking forward to reviewing your application!
 You will work in a global environment that provide you with opportunities to develop both professionally and personally. We at Volvo Group want you to be prosper and happy, because when you succeed, we succeed.
 At Volvo Buses we are actively working to establish groups that will take maximum advantage of the strength inherent in differences in knowledge, experience, age, gender, and nationality, etc.

Curious and want to find out more about this opportunity? Do not hesitate to get in touch!
Fredrik Hillström, Head of Product planning, +46 31 32 20802


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