Global Product Director City

"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 highly skilled person with strong drive, interpersonal capabilities, customer focus and a background in electromobility, interested in playing a significant role in shaping the future for Volvo Buses products?

We are now looking for a talented and motivated person to take up the position as Global Product Director City 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 challenges. Based on investigations and a global business perspective, we recommend direction and way forward in all product-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. 

Job description

As Global Product Director City, you will have an important role securing that Volvo Buses has an attractive electromobility product offer.

You will in this position take part in setting the strategic direction of Volvo buses. You will also be taking part in realising the plans by defining and monitoring the development of future products to build a profitable product programme based on demands from customers and society.

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 faces you to combine your strategic approach with a more hands on attitude, then we believe you have the right attitude to be successful in this position.
Your main responsibilities will include:
•    Develop and maintain BA Buses chassis strategy and product plan.
•    Building customer and market knowledge including competition.
•    Responsible for key pre-studies and defining new product projects.
•    Drive commonality and consolidation to leverage global volume base and capture synergies.
•    Interface to Volvo Bus Global functions as well as market regions in related matters.
•    Manage a profitable product portfolio with portfolio management theories.

You will work in highly international and multi-functional network environment consisting of our Market organisations, Product Development (Buses and GTT), Purchasing, After Market, and Production.

Who we are looking for 

The ideal candidate for this position is passionate about product planning and has a broad experience from working with either in product planning or as a Chief Project Manager for commercial vehicles. 

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!

Volvo Buses vision is to be the most desired and successful provider of sustainable people transport solutions, driving value creation through innovation, partnerships, and people.
Customer success, trust, passion, change and performance are the values that guide us.

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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