Operations Graduate Program – Digital Driver in Supply Chain Logistics

Volvo Group Operations Graduate Program


The Volvo Group Operations Graduate Program is an international fast-track career program with the aim of developing future experts in the field of engineering, IT, data science etc. If you are up for the challenge of driving innovation, gaining first-hand experience, and developing our future operations within a global organization, this is the graduate program for you! As a graduate, you will be an integral part of shaping Volvo Groups mobility solutions of the future.


What’s in it for you?
15-month trainee program during which you will be working on current, business-critical projects with integrated local and international job rotations
You are given your own tasks and responsibilities from the start
Benefit from personal career and team development events
Alongside other program participants, you will attend a variety of workshops and seminars designed to help you grow into your future career at Volvo Group
Receive a competitive salary and permanent position from day one
Benefit from individual support, coaching and feedback from your mentor and experts within your field
Build a network within the organisation to foster your career development
Take the driver’s seat by shaping the program according to your own personal interests to develop your competencies for tomorrow

In addition, you will take a deep dive into some specific areas of our business such as manufacturing, health and safety, quality, and continuous improvements, while also learning about the end-to-end supply chain, aftermarket parts and our remanufacturing operations. We furthermore offer the opportunity for you to be part of our digital transformation, applying new technologies to connect and automate our processes. Together we work with AI, data science, machine learning, circular systems, virtual manufacturing and more, to build our fully electric or autonomous products.


If rotational development, a global set up and designing the world of tomorrow are aspects you are looking for in your next job context, this position might be something for you.
Required knowledge/experience
A BSc or MSc in Engineering, Economics, Computer Sciences, Management or Logistics
Maximum two years of previous working experience, prior to or after graduation.
Valid work permit for the applied country if not a citizen.

Job Description:
Our organization is on a journey towards digitalization, which will enable us to solve our customer’s spare parts logistics problems in totally different ways. This journey will transform the way we develop the competence of our co-workers, how we work internally and how we interface with our dealers across Europe. The aim of your role is to boost and accelerate this digitalization journey.


Continuous improvement in the digital landscape is your main activity. You will contribute to improving our way of working to enhance team feeling, quality and velocity. In the role you will drive and lead your digitalization work in a Scrum/Agile approach. Your goal is to quickly get from idea to deployed solution, generating added value for the company and customers. You will coach and support the scrum team throughout the development cycle. You are constantly aligning between product owners to ensure resource efficiency in value driven cross product prioritization.


Who are you?


Now you know a little bit about us. We would like to describe who we think that you are, our new colleague. Since we don’t know you, yet we probably won’t have everything right, but when we imagine you, we believe that you take on any challenge with a positive mindset. You like to take the ownership and feel responsibility for the market where you serve our customers. You are also great at communicating and collaborating to reach the goals you set up, whether it’s internally in our team or with your colleague on the other side of the planet.


We think that you have a deep interest in how the digital landscape could revolutionize our way of working and that you have the drive to lead, learn and explore within this area. You have experience from education or previous work on AI, office automation and/or IT solution development. Skills in code such as Python and/or JavaScript are strongly merited. For this position strong analytical skills are a must as well as being able to work with large amount of data to perform in depth analyses. You can present the result of the analysis in an understandable way and are fluent in English. You are passionate about lean and agile ways of working and you enjoy inspiring colleagues how digitalization can support the team’s success.


If you also have previous experience from studying or working with logistics and supply management, it’s meriting as that’s the core of what we do. We know that this image of our new colleague is very extensive and put demand on a very broad skill set, and we really don’t expect you to cover all of it.


This is us, your new team:


In our team we truly believe that a supportive environment, curiosity, and team effort gives you a passion for what you do. And when you have that passion, our customers will notice!


We explore new technologies and solutions with the aim to develop future competitive differentiators for the Volvo Group. You will play an important role in creating the supply chain of the future. This is a great time to join us as the cooperative environment and explorative mindset that we have in our organization is quite unique!
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden


Curious, and have some questions? Contact us!
Manager: Christoffer Karlsson, +46765535933,
HRBP: Madeleine Ahnström, +4676 55 353 92,


Are we a perfect match?
So, if you are a person who is flexible, embraces opportunities and is ready to take action? Then we are hoping to hear from you!
During the recruitment process email will be the primary way for us to communicate with you, please monitor the inbox for the email address you register in your application. In this recruitment process psychometric testing and video interviews are part of the matching process. Selected candidates will receive further instructions by mail.