Senior Leader - Public Projects to Volvo Group

This is us, your new colleagues in Project and Product Strategy Office (PPSO)
Many of today´s societal challenges are expected to be solved by technology development and the Volvo Group (VG) is investing heavily in Research and Development (R&D). In order to fully leverage our R&D investments, it is necessary to strengthen the alignment of the innovation, technology and regulatory strategies and agendas to prepare our organization for the future.


Through internal and external collaboration, PPSO is instrumental to the VG in order to drive and maximize the technology and product synergies and to accelerate innovation by e.g. capturing opportunities to leverage public and private partnerships.


We are a global team with the aim to strengthen the Volvo Group position and competitiveness, organized within Volvo Group Trucks Technology. The team you will join consists of highly engaged people around the world with different backgrounds and perspectives, a fantastic workplace to join.

We are looking for a Senior Leader- Public Projects
Your main responsibility is to identify opportunities for public partnerships and to build and secure public projects that captures the potential to leverage and maximize synergies and investments. You will have an active part of the VG Public Partnership interface and representation with networks including authorities, corporations, suppliers, customers, and academia. You will act as a trusted ambassador for Volvo Group by interacting with a wide area of stakeholders utilizing our global presence as trusted thought leaders.


Other responsibilities will be to:
Secure a Volvo Group approach towards public partnership opportunities supporting ongoing business as well as creating new opportunities
In collaboration with relevant VG functions drive public partnership and project prospects to initiate, build, support and follow up public partnership project possibilities
Represent the VG and advocate VG positions and priorities in relevant external forums
Contribute to build and execute the public partnership strategy
Promote the findings and success of public projects to build Volvo Group’s reputation as an innovative technology leader

You will report to the Director Public Partnerships.


Who are you?
We believe that with the right mindset you can get things going and make a difference. If you besides your genuine interest in working with people and realize partnership opportunities by leveraging technical and business development, also see challenges as something positive and face change with curiosity - then we are sure you will be successful in this position. We also believe you:
Build networks and establish successful relationships with various stakeholders such as authorities, partners, suppliers, and academia. This requires a skill in partnership definition and negotiations as well as creating trust
Have a track record from working in cross functional teams cross organizational boundaries. You apply outstanding influencing and partnering skills to deliver results through influence and matrixed organizations
Have strong and proven people skills with an open mind-set and passion to deliver value for our customers as well as for society at large. For us this means having personal integrity and capability to act as a team player, both from a local and global context while being resilient, proactive and responsive to ever changing context and new challenges
Are curious to learn, can grasp new ideas with an innate curiosity and develop yourself. You have high energy and leadership, including defining and driving vision, engaging people with a strong “can-do” mentality

Other qualifications:
Master’s degree in relevant area. MBA is a plus
Many years of experience from technology product and/or business development in large multinational company
Long experience from driving public partnerships initiatives and projects with strong strategic capabilities and mindset
Experience and deep knowledge of the Volvo Group, particularly in technology and/or automotive industry
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

We are actively working to establish teams that will take maximum advantage of the strength inherent to differences in knowledge, experience, age, gender and nationality, among others. We find that well balanced work teams increase group dynamics, creativity and new approaches to solutions.


The position is located in Gothenburg.


We would like to hear from you, do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions:
Peter Jozsa Mårdberg, Director Public Partnerships, +46 31 3220990, peter.mardberg@volvo.com


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