Director New Technology

Volvo Group / Maskiningenjörsjobb / Göteborg
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Volvo Penta is recruiting:

Director New Technology

Our employees describe Volvo Penta as a great place to work, built upon respect and commitment. We encourage people to take individual responsibility and offer exciting assignments in a highly innovative environment.

We strongly believe that high performance comes from having fun at work, and the courage to think outside the box. Come and join us. We are both world leading and pioneers in our field. Welcome!

Right now we are looking for a leader to our New Technology Function.

Challenge description:
The Volvo Penta vision is to be the world leader in sustainable power solutions. We have a history of innovation and enjoy strong market positions based on our current product and service offer. Now it is time for us to prepare the next generation products and solutions and we believe those will be connected, electrified and automated. We are forming a new team to lead the technology development needed for the transformation. The team's area of responsibility will be development of technologies for new areas as well as existing range and will be managed by the Director New Technology.

Key responsibilities:
• Strategy and roadmaps within the area of technology, including management and governance of technology development, you lead the transfer towards new technology areas. Successful collaboration across all functions in Volvo Penta as well as with other Volvo Group entities, external partners and most importantly our customers are key success factors in this role.
• IP management (in collaboration with Volvo Group IP strategy & portfolio).
• Management role. You will lead and develop the people in your team as well as taking responsibility for the development of working processes and practices within your area of responsibility in the quest for continuous improvement.
• Member of the PD management team. The PD management team covers all core processes of Product Development, including Project management, Design, Verification & Validation, Documentation and Support processes. Each individual in the team has a great opportunity to influence the future of Volvo Penta.

In prioritizing candidates, we will pay attention to matching your profile to team culture, experience, gender and spirit. The successful candidate will have shown a winning attitude and great persona in combination with a strong track record and references.

The position is based in Göteborg, Sweden.

Start Date & Timeline
We will start interviewing immediately and will close the recruitment as soon as possible. Last application date is March 24.

For further information, please contact:
Hiring Manager: Urban Larsson, Vice President R&D, +46 31-3221677
HR contact: Teresa Krook +46 31-3233710

Competence Profile:
• Dedication to customer success, ability to build deep understanding of customer needs and capability
• to translate this into technologies supporting new services and solutions for our customers.
• Curios technology and business scout, as we expect the successful candidate to bring relevant experience from similar transformation of technology and business.
• Hands on visionary, meaning the ability to convey a compelling vision but also the competence to bring it down to real roadmaps and actions.
• Teamwork and collaborative spirit, to be able to build on the pool of knowledge and assets within Volvo Penta, the broader Volvo Group as well as external partners.
• Leadership. You have responsibility over a team of high professionals. You are capable to build a plan for developing the new function and engage the team in building the necessary processes and skills to execute the plan.

We expect you are a social person who enjoys working with others in flexible team constellations.

We believe you have a University degree as the basis for your career. You are fluent in English as well as Swedish both in business and privately as well as in speaking and writing.

The Volvo Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment and marine and industrial engines under the leading brands Volvo, Renault Trucks, Mack, UD Trucks, Eicher, SDLG, Terex Trucks, Prevost, Nova Bus, UD Bus, Sunwin Bus and Volvo Penta.

With Volvo Penta, a world-leading supplier of engines and complete drive systems for marine and industrial applications, you will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals who works with passion, trust each other and embraces change to stay ahead. We make our customers win.

Publiceringsdatum
2017-03-06

Så ansöker du
Sista dag att ansöka är 2017-03-24

Företag
Volvo Group

Adress
Volvo Group

40508 Göteborg

Kontorsadress


Jobbnummer
3357136

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