Planning and Logistics Manager - Giga-factory

Northvolt has an exciting job offer for a Logistics and Planning Manager to join our passionate team in Skellefteå.
In joining us you will play an important part from the very start in building one of the first large scale European battery factories and help Northvolt spearhead the transformation to a carbon free society.
As a Planning and Logistics manager, you will be responsible for our planning (demand, production, supply), as well as for efficient purchasing, internal material flow and warehousing. All of it - in giga scale.
As leader of the unit you will have the opportunity to build a competent and dependable team from scratch, capable to scale Northvolt’s operations in Sweden and beyond.
In general you have a long experience in the field and have been driving large, innovative and challenging projects within planning and logistics.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Contribute to strategic planning and decision-making, related to manufacturing planning, purchasing and internal material flow, and ensuring that they align with Northvolt’s mission.
Oversee the budget; monitor the cost and effectiveness of activities to optimize resources, prioritize spending, and maintain professional standards.
Lead, direct, evaluate, and develop professional staff to ensure the quality, validity, and credibility of the organization's activities.
Responsible for planning manufacturing orders prioritized on customer focus and efficient flow.
Responsible for purchasing at Ett to ensure manufacturing operations.
Responsible for efficient internal material handling and warehousing operations.
Ensures excellent working processes in own department and continuously develops them
Has full managerial responsibility for the team.
Accountable for developing new methods, tools and processes. Responsible for sharing of best practices.

Education/Experience
Master of science in mechanical/industrial/chemical engineering
Proven Leadership in manufacturing organization
Experience in the modern Operations Management principles: Lean, Kaizen, Six Sigma

Specific Skills/Abilities
Fluent in English
Excellent in manufacturing planning methods like MRP, Detailed scheduling, Lean planning
Excellent in warehouse planning, stock control and warehouse management
Purchasing expert
Structured problem solving methods
Qualities that we cherish are flexibility, sense of quality, friendliness, motivation to take on new challenges, grit and a sense of humor
Passionate & purpose driven

Personal success factors
Challenges, in a bold way, current behaviors and ways of working
Close to employees, follow up, encourage, exceptional in feed forward and feedback
Excellent in empowering people to make people act autonomous
Create team spirit and sense of belonging and relatedness in the team
The ability to communicate guidelines to a multidisciplinary, as well as multinational, workforce is essential.
Passionate about people and planning
Drive, making things happen
Good communication skills, both written and verbal.

The person we are looking for is strongly goal oriented, curious and eager to learn. You will get the chance to have a real impact on our success story in Sweden (to start with) and see the results of your work. Our organization requires and values great self-discipline and a natural talent to make things happen. The Logistics and Planning Manager is a vital member of the Northvolt Ett team and key to Northvolt's mission to enable the future of energy.
Apply with CV and cover letter or your complete LinkedIn profile.
Full time employment, fixed salary.
Planned starting date is yesterday.