Innovation Program Leader

CEVT is an innovation and development company at the forefront of mobility. Modular development, ground-breaking virtual engineering, software development and continuous innovation enable us to deliver world-class technology.
Today we deliver to different automotive brands in the Geely family such as Geely Auto, Volvo Cars, and Lynk & Co and are based at Lindholmen in Gothenburg.

We need a brilliant Innovation Program Leader focused on future services. We think it could be you!

Mission:
CEVT is on an ever-transforming journey focusing on future mobility solutions. This future includes both ongoing innovation programs and yet un-invented services that adds value to both end-users, business partners as well as our own organization. Iterative design thinking mixed with insights and various technologies/methods (Sensors, HMI, Big data, AI) is how we validate ideas and direction together with stakeholders. A service is anything from the most simple App to something with the most complex machine learning algorithm running in the background.
CEVT Innovation strongly supports our transformation by funding Innovative projects. We transfer the values/solutions into our organization and future products.

We are now looking for a Innovation Program Leader for Services to support us in this journey.

This is what you will do most of the time:
You will be responsible for the vision/north star, content and deliveries regarding innovative services. Your portfolio will include a balanced mix of incremental and radical concepts and sub-projects. In the Innovation team you will have fellow Program Leaders that own other hard and soft parts of innovative mobility solutions. You will also work in close collaboration with both internal R&D organizations, our start-up communities around the world as well as academia to find the way forward. You will drive your program with help from internal and external resources.
As an Innovation Program Leader at CEVT you are expected to bring knowledge of working in agile setup with in-house and external delivery teams. The job requires excellent communication and presentation capabilities, multicultural understanding and a prior background from service oriented businesses. As Innovation Program Leader you report to Head of Innovation CEVT.

Responsibilities:

- Lead Innovation Program Service
- Owning part of the Innovation budget
- Deliver Innovative solutions to business stakeholders
- Actively communicate with business units and report owners
- Support the business to define and express needs/challenges/opportunities
- Actively communicate with development teams
- Continues improvement of way of working, supporting the business targets and visions
- Interact with suppliers, partners, and vendors




You probably fit below description:



- Experienced visionary Leader
- Strong personal drive
- Curious business mindset
- Design thinking / User focused
- Ability to work independently and cross-functionally in teams in a changing environment
- Fluent in English and preferable Swedish or/and Chinese
- Cultural awareness
- Can-do-attitude, flexible and service minded


For more information please contact:
Peter Stavered, Head of Innovation, 072-988 81 03 (pls txt sms and you get a call back), peter.stavered@cevt.se for questions regarding the position

Kristina Larsson, Senior Recruiter, 072-988 85 44, kristina.larsson@cevt.se for questions regarding the recruitment process

Last application date: 2021-05-14

Apply today, we will perform ongoing selection during the application period. We look forward to hearing from you.

Please note that due to GDPR regulations we can only accept applications and CV's sent through the recruitment system, not via email or other channels.

Working at CEVT

We are engineers, developers and innovators from around the world. Joined together by entrepreneurship, our unique blend of Chinese and Scandinavian culture and a belief in a smarter more sustainable future.



- Supportive and creative work environment

- 30 days of vacation and additional 8 days paid ATK- days annually
- Great office location at Lindholmen