Heads of Purchasing E-mob, Autonomous, Electronics, Hydrogen solutions

We are proud to be on a super exciting journey where we will grow our teams to be ready for committing to our long-term targets to be 100% fossil free, 100% safe and 100% more productive. To get there, sustainability needs to be at the heart of everything we do, and we thus need to grow our departments. An important part of that growth is four new managers – one for each of the four fields of Electromobility, Autonomous drive - Safety, Electronics and Hydrogen Solutions. Maybe you are one of them?


Even though we operate in a business-to-business environment it is the people who make the difference. It is important that you are a trusted leader and that you radiate passion when developing your team and your business. Each of the four teams will consist of six to ten buyers of various nationalities located in France and Sweden. We hope you love to actively contribute to your team members' development, both professionally and personally. Each manager will be responsible for a newly created team so we hope that you like to build a strong team with great team spirit.


Talking about being good at building relationships, in addition to the relationship with the team, it is essential to be able to build and maintain trustful and healthy supplier relationships. With well-functioning interactions we believe that we easier support our business and develop sustainable long-term relationships with our supply chain partners. As Head of one of the newly created purchasing teams you will have responsibility for the strategic leadership of your commodity globally and operational responsibility for Europe. We believe that someone that loves to work as a leader in a multicultural context with a high pace and that enjoys cooperating with various functions will also love and excel at this job.


What we absolutely need you to do
Act as a trusted leader and coach your organization
With an ownership mentality build an effective team with common objectives and high team spirit
Be proactive and handle ambiguities - we move too fast to be reactive
Influence the continuous improvement and our learning culture
Speak up, influence and drive transformation to create positive change
Collaborate with internal stakeholder and other group functions to drive business results



The ticket to ride
Be able to run a profitable lemonade stand
Have an inspiring leadership that embraces diversity and builds effective teams
Be able to deal with the issues that arise when navigating in unknown terrain
Communicate so everyone can understand what you’re trying to say
Purchasing experience from an international business environment with global suppliers
You can either submit your general application to one of the four positions or you can tell us if there is one area that you are more interested in:
Electromobility – Head of Power Conversion
Electronics – Head of Powertrain Electronics
Autonomous Solutions – Head of Active/ Passive Safety Team
New Technologies – Head of Hydrogen Solutions



We believe that you have an academic degree in engineering and/or business (or similar). We hope you have an experience of manager roles. We know that you love to work with an ownership mentality and that you have a great interest in people.


Let's shape the world we want to live in. We have fun, we bring value and we work hard every day. Do you want to contribute to that atmosphere?


If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us!


We will recruit continuously so please do not wait with your application!


CONTACT NAMES:


Marion Chabrol – Strategic Projects – coordinating the recruitment – marion.chabrol@volvo.com
Jenny Lilliehöök – HR Business Partner – jenny.lilliehook@volvo.com
Aurelien Brodie – Head of Electromobility (looking for Head of Power Conversion) – aurelien.brodie@volvo.com
Emmanuel Perrod – Head of Electronics and Energy Management (looking for Head of Powertrain Electronics) – emmanuel.perrod@volvo.com
Henrik Häggström – Head of Autonomous Solutions (looking for Head of Active/Passive Safety) – henrik.haggstrom@volvo.com


Kindly note that due to GDPR, we will not accept applications via mail. Please use our career site.


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