Portfolio & Governance Manager at Volvo Energy

"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."

We shape the world we want to live in!
Volvo Energy is our newest business area with the overarching purpose of accelerating electrification and driving circularity for a better tomorrow. With an agile approach and a can-do mindset, we actively work to ensure the acceleration of the electrification transformation every day in all that we do. As the Volvo Group, we are driving circularity in our industry forward in these important areas. 



Charging and Infrastructure Solution - C&IS

We are a function within Volvo Energy where we develop Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) / Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEV) C&IS offering in conjunction with Business Area’s and partners. We work by lobbying and advocacy, legislation monitoring, partnerships, and associations to create and accelerate industry standardization and roll-out.

We identify and extract public funding and subsidies across applicable markets and regions. We create new business offer opportunities as well as value propositions together with our Volvo Group colleagues and partners. We jointly simplify the electrification transformation for our customers and the society as well as accelerate the journey towards 100% fossil free and in doing so, we will support Volvo Group’s sustainability.

We are the natural go-to expert function within the Volvo Group for BEV/FCEV C&IS. 

As the Portfolio and Governance Manager at Public Charging and Infrastructure, you are responsible for driving and managing the portfolio of projects. This includes identifying needs, prioritization, and verifying roadmaps with relevant stakeholders. In addition, you are responsible for maintaining and ensuring the governance process of all items contained in the roadmaps. 

In this role you will:
•    Drive the process to manage Public Charging service development portfolio and budget. 
•    Lead prioritization of near-term development activities to meet the Volvo Group Brand’s expectations, support our customers, and increase service revenues. E.g., lead pre-PI planning. 
•    Be part of the long-term roadmap work. 
•    PI planning administration and facilitation. 
•    Be part of the financial follow-up. 
•    Manage and continuously improve the Governance Process and Ways of Working. 
•    Facilitate and manage the Development and Governance forum. 
•    Facilitate the Public Charging and Infrastructure Committee. 

Making it a success for yourself and Volvo Energy

Welcome to a global team unified by an important mission, great ideas, fun, diversity, and inclusion. Our colleagues are - and will always be - the most important part of the story, as each colleague truly matters and plays an essential role in our journey.

To succeed, we believe you are innovative, pragmatic, creative with a positive spirit, curious and have an entrepreneurial mindset. Being recognized in your specialties, you are a forward-looking person, and you see opportunities when others see risks. Being appreciated by your peers, you enjoy connecting with a broad network, building win-win approaches, and developing relationships.

Consequently, whilst demands are high, there is also plenty of opportunities to learn and grow - as a professional and as a person. We will be a fairly small team and therefore look for colleagues that thoroughly enjoy this intrapreneurial challenge, can hit the ground running and lead with passion, perform with purpose and transform with vision. Moreover, it will be essential you have a strong ability to form trustful relationships to effectively work with partners - inside and outside of the Volvo Group – in a cross-functional manner.

If our entrepreneurial spirit, adaptability, and customer-focused mindset light your inner fire, we might be a great match! We work in an optimistic atmosphere, where joy, knowledge sharing, and openness are key characteristics.

Qualifications likely required to be successful:
•    Strong verbal and written communication skills. 
•    Knowledge of agile principles and ways of working.
•    Ability to establish structure and ensure coordination between different stakeholders, teams, and organizations.
•    Skilled in the decision-making process and conducting prioritization. 
•    Collaboration and teamwork skills. 


Feel free to contact us if you have further questions:
Karin Berggren, Head of Services Development Public - Charging & Infrastructure Solutions
karin.berggren@volvo.com