Team Leader Planning Sweden

Do you enjoy guiding and developing people in achieving goals? Are you structured and possess good networking skills? Then you might be our new Team Leader in the Swedish Planning team. In this role you will get the opportunity to develop your skills in an exciting area of the company with the global partner in sustainable energy solutions.

Sales > SBU NCE > Planning SE
Vestas North and Central Europe is a sales business unit covering Scandinavia, UK, Ireland, Poland, the Baltics, Germany, Benelux as well as Eastern Europe and south of Africa. We are responsible for the Sales function, Project, Installation and Service of wind farms throughout these regions. We strive to be the No. 1 performing business unit within Vestas, and we aim to make Vestas North and Central Europe the best place to work.
The Service department in Sweden is responsible for service, service sales and maintenance of the wind turbines within the Nordic countries. The department is a busy area with a lot of exciting things happening. In order to be effective, we need excellent Planners who can handle changing situations with a confident and structured approach.

Responsibilities
Located at our Malmö office, you will be supervising the Swedish planning team consisting of 14 devoted Service Planners. Their job is to plan the work for our Service Technicians out on the field. As a Team Leader, you will be responsible for developing the team to meet the requirements of an ever-changing and growing business. You will also play an important part in securing and delivering products and service to meet our customers' expectations. Moreover, this role comes with a broad responsibility, having a seat in the national management team.
Furthermore, your responsibilities will be:
People management of the planning team, including hire and fire
People development
Ensure team delivers to key criteria and KPIs in Service
Ensure your team creates a cost-efficient work plan based on contractual obligations and promises to customers, while applying an optimal use/balancing of resources both local and across Nordic
Participate in developing the strategy for Planning and in turn deliver on the set strategy



Qualifications
Experience with people management
Experience of a role in an operational line of business, like logistics and/or workload planning
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Swedish
You are experienced in all Microsoft office programs, Excel in particular
Experience with SAP or Sales Force is an advantage


Competencies
Good at supervising/being supervised on a distance
Change management skills
Good at networking and stakeholder management, with an understanding of their various requirements as well as different Nordic cultures
Good business mindset
Self-motivated and working effectively towards continuous improvements
Ability to cope with stress in an ever-growing and innovative environment
Service-minded with a natural motivation towards giving your customer a great service experience



What we offer
An exciting position with good opportunities in development professionally and personally. We have an open culture where collaboration and good communication skills are prerequisites for reaching good results. We are all enthusiastic about wind energy and provide quality solutions to our customers. You will work in an open and flexible environment with skilled and positive colleagues who are prepared to assist when needed. By joining Vestas, you will have the opportunity to develop a career with a leading wind power company within an exciting and growing industry.

Additional information
Work location is our office in Malmö, Sweden. Travel from time to time may occur.
As interviews will be held regularly, please don’t wait to send in your application. Last day of application is 14th of February.
For questions about the position, please contact Recruiter Elin Holm, Sweden at +46 73 073 99 03 or Senior Manager Heidi Møller Kristensen at +4540836289.