Purchasing Manager - Project Office Uptime & Adaptation

THIS IS US, YOUR NEW COLLEAGUES
The essences of Uptime & Adaptation (U&A) team purpose is to be responsible for customer needs and to create new business solutions with the right suppliers. Low volume offering, including mature technologies but also small-scale innovation with fast introduction, characterizes the solutions developed through projects in cooperation with GTT Special Vehicle Development and European brands teams.
U&A Project Office team handles those projects from budget phase up to the product end of life. The team is accountable for purchasing deliveries while safeguarding purchasing requirements within the projects. U&A Project office is also representing Purchasing in all cross-functional governances such as Project Management Teams, steering committees and decision bodies.


We offer you a great opportunity where you will be breaking new grounds and play an important role in leading the team forward. You will work with a fantastic and inclusive team, where we see collaboration as an important part of our daily work. We like to work hard and to have fun along the way, always with a focus to reach and deliver the best results. This sounds great, right? Please come join us.


ROLE DESCRIPTION
As Purchasing Manager Project Office Uptime & Adaptation, you will lead a team of Project Managers Purchasing (PMP). You act as the owner of your project portfolio and are also engaged in the Uptime & Adaptation related tasks. You are accountable to ensure the achievement of the purchasing targets in the projects. You also drive and manage the interface between purchasing and the cross-functional project teams. You are also part of peers group & functions hosted in Purchasing and Project Management community.


You are responsible for the development, leadership and engagement within your team as well as securing purchasing deliverables within your project portfolio. You drive the department activities towards the wanted position and secure needed communication with your main stakeholders.


Other main activities:
Be a member of Uptime & Adaptation Leadership team and in an active way contribute to the development of the department
Represent purchasing in relevant projects governance (steering committees, project pulses, reference groups)
Secure set targets and KPI fulfillment for the Purchasing Project organization
Work in accordance with the Volvo processes, the Code of Conduct and the Volvo Values

WHO ARE YOU, OUR NEW COLLEAGUE?
To succeed in this position, we believe that you have strong leadership experience and a good ability to manage stakeholders. You are business driven with good communication skills. We also think you to have the ability to manage diversity and offer opportunities for personal and professional development. We are a multicultural organization who believe that the best results are accomplished while working together, therefore we are continuously valuing our differences and learn from this. Another key aspect you have to succeed in this position is a problem-solving mindset and an ability to act quickly and directly.


Qualifications:
Ability to communicate, inspire and drive result
Ability to handle uncertainty and the unexpected and can holds things together during tough times
Provide direct & actionable feedback
Team oriented and putting value in trust-based collaboration
Possess continuous improvement mindset
University degree in Engineering/technology and/or Business Administration
Knowledge in current and future business trends, technology, and markets

Please come join us. Apply today and let us run projects together!


If you have questions, please contact me:
Simon Claudel, VP Uptime and Adaptation, +33665859211