Purchasing Strategy & Digitalization: Business Improvement

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Are you a curious changemaker who thrives in a fast-paced, global and complex environment? Does the opportunity to make an impact excite you, and are you looking for a career where you grow and learn every day? At Volvo Group Purchasing we shape the world we want to live in, by leveraging our ecosystem of supply network partners to drive prosperity.

We are looking for talent with passion, commitment and big ideas who want to make a difference.
Sounds like you? Join our team!

The Purchasing Strategy & Digitalization (PS&D) function within Volvo Group Purchasing (GTP) is a Centre of Excellence. We are responsible for driving and facilitating the strategic direction of purchasing on behalf of Executive Management Team.

PS&D are, together with relevant line functions, driving efficiency within digitalization, governance, harmonization, group synergies, continuous improvements, and digital & IT projects to enable business value. We work proactively with change management and transformation in collaboration with GTP line functions.

Our team: Business Governance and Transformation

In order to cope with the increased number of improvement initiatives as well as new digitalization projects we are currently looking for an individual to drive business improvement and transformation of GTP 's ways of working.

As our agenda is evolving regularly based on Business demands, market evolution and GTP Execution plan, other topics related to diverse purchasing areas may appear (ie. Strategy, Sourcing, Project, Operations, Risk Management, Responsible Purchasing)

Who are you?
If you have a burning desire to improve the current ways of working and have a passion to work on process, tools, systems & people ... this is the right place to be!

You work with a passionate team of purchasing professionals having a good understanding on how to harmonize different ways of working and make use of digitalization in a way that adds business value.

As a person, you see change as an opportunity, you are positive and enjoy the challenges that a transformation means.

Main Activities & Responsibilities
Drive and contribute to relevant Reference Groups (internal or cross-functional), helping improve existing processes, systems and tools.
Drive the change activities towards the line organization to ensure that the value from the enhanced processes and tools is realized
Own and drive the Continuous Improvements and Excellence in your area, based on business needs and strategies.
Gather Continuous Improvement ideas and identify potential improvements from process assessment, anchor with relevant stakeholders, develop, implement and measure the outcome.
Work with the digitalization team and come up with solutions based on the needs of the stakeholders.
Responsible to implement and deploy the product changes to business effectively.
Contribute (lead or participate) on purchasing execution plan activities.
Represent different teams or line organization, and be the key contact for feedback, ideas, best practices, issues and questions.

Qualifications
University degree in Engineering and/or Business Administration
Positive and collaborative mindset and strong energy to contribute to the success of the Volvo Group
Continuous Improvement and Excellence mindset
Excellent communication skills
Preferred knowledge of purchasing or experience within purchasing/supply chain
Process management and or change management experience is a +
Excellent interpersonal and networking skills - true connector working in eco-systems

For more information, please contact Erik Ifwarsson +46739025785

Kindly note that due to GDPR, we will not accept applications via mail. Please use our career site.

Så ansöker du
Sista dag att ansöka är 2023-04-23
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Omfattning
Detta är ett heltidsjobb.

Arbetsgivare
Volvo Business Services AB (org.nr 556029-5197)
405 08  GÖTEBORG

Arbetsplats
Volvo Group

Jobbnummer
7628003

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