Vice President Energy Storage System Purchasing

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We are proud to be on an exciting journey to implement the Volvo Group long-term targets to be 100% fossil free, 100% safe and 100% more productive. To get there, sustainability needs to be at the heart of everything we do, the electrification of our applications takes a significant share of this commitment, and we thus need to grow our Electromobility Purchasing department. As part of this growth, we are looking for a person for a highly strategic role as Vice President of Energy Storage Systems (ESS). Do you share our passion to lead and grow teams as well as making the world a better, cleaner place? Great, then you are the person we are looking for!

In our business-to-business environment we believe it is our people who make the difference. It is important that you are a trusted leader and that you radiate passion when developing your team and your business. The position is a role where you will be leading the strategic scope of ESS globally and have the operational responsibility in Europe. We hope you love to actively contribute to your team members' development, both professionally and personally as well as building strong teams with great team spirit. In the Electromobility management team you will have an important role developing the Electromobility strategies and team development.

Volvo group being a leader in the electrification journey of our products, and committed to stay ahead of our competitors, we see a constant acceleration to support the exponential growth we are forecasting for this business in the years to come. This will require that you are extremely well connected with your x-functional stakeholders, with an ability to see the end-to-end perspective at company level. You will also have to both manage and be part of several ecosystems, cross-departments and cross-functions, aiming at maturing our business practices and bringing them to automotive standards. The battery field being extremely dynamic, you will need to secure we are on top of the latest developments in this area from battery packs, down to cells' raw materials and all along this value chain.

Talking about being good at building relationships, it is essential to be able to build and maintain trustful and healthy supply partner relationships. With well-functioning interactions we believe that we easier support our business and develop sustainable long-term relationships with our supply chain partners. As Vice President of ESS you will have responsibility for the strategic leadership of your commodity globally and operational responsibility for Europe. We believe that someone that loves to work as a leader in a multicultural context with a high pace and that enjoys cooperating with various functions will also love and excel at this job.

What we absolutely need you to do
Act as a trusted leader and coach your organization strategically and operationally. With this you secure financial/cost targets, KPIs fulfillment as well as Purchasing Agreements.
Drive and implement the segment strategies and manage supply partner's relationship, selection, partnership and negotiations
With an ownership mentality build effective teams with common objectives and high team spirit
Be proactive and handle ambiguities - we move too fast to be reactive. We need you to support the Volvo group change journey exploring and implementing Partnership and New business models
Influence the continuous improvement and our learning culture
Speak up, influence and drive transformation to create positive change
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholder to drive business results
Explore and implement new Business models with supply Partners to support our common growth
Secure resiliency in your teams and supply partner networks, understanding the world we live in is in constant change

The ticket to ride
You love people - Track record in effectively leading and developing teams. You have an inspiring leadership that embraces diversity and innovation. You emphasize and foster an environment of diversity and inclusiveness, finding strengths and unity among differences
You love business! Track record in successfully driving business and developing partnerships. You have a holistic view and a strong business acumen.
Ability to handle ambiguity while providing structure and guidance to your team
Communicate so everyone can understand what you're trying to say
Having a sustainability drive and vision for climate, resources and people

If you recognize yourself in the above description - we are very curious to get to know!

//Redha Messaoui, Senior Vice President Electromobility, Autonomous and Electronics

If any questions please contact:

Jenny Lilliehöök, People & Culture Business Partner, jenny.lilliehook@volvo.com

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

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Sista dag att ansöka är 2023-05-29
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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
7780721

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