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Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to driving prosperity and shaping the future landscape through sustainable transport, mobility, and infrastructure solutions. By offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity.

Our headquarters are in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Group shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.

Are you a skilled professional that likes to take responsibility and speak for the team, excellent interpersonal capabilities where inclusiveness is important and a customer-focused mindset? Do you have a background in electromobility within the automotive industry and a passion for shaping the future of Volvo Buses products? If so, we invite you to join our team as our Department Planning & Delivery Leader!

Who We Are

The Chassis & Propulsion Development (CPD) department is part of Platform Development within Global Bus Technology (GBT) at Volvo Buses. We are responsible for developing platform solutions in areas such as Chassis frame, Propulsion, Traction Voltage Systems, Thermal systems, and Vehicle dynamics. Our main sites are located in Sweden and Brazil, and we employ approximately 125 people. Our responsibilities also include Body builder support and Virtual verification and analysis.

About the role

As the Department Planning & Delivery Leader, you will be a key member of the CPD management team, working closely with our Department Portfolio Owner and 8 Group Managers. You report to CPD Director.

You will be responsible for planning and managing our team’s workflow, ensuring that prioritized project initiatives are started on time and delivered efficiently. This includes to prepare and manage our PI planning, deliveries in the increments as well as collect and learn from retrospectives performed by our teams to improve us further. Re-balancing of plans will be needed as we are operating in a highly changeable environment to support our customer needs, that might come with short notice. We want you to help the teams and us to be proactive and mitigate the impact of needed changes as much as we can. For this, developing our way of working (wow) continuously where we learn from our mistakes as we move forward and nurture an open dialogue environment will be crucial. Improvement of wow will be an important part of your work.

We utilize many agile methods in our work as well as many classic project wow in waterfall methodology. We aim to get the best out of these two worlds of workflow.

Since we are a smaller company, we all work with broad responsibilities and cross-functionally through the entire company, across many different departments, cultures, and competence areas. This position will be no different, coordinating with other development teams and stakeholders here at Volvo Buses and within Volvo Group will be important.

Who We Are Looking For

We see that you have experience in hardware development with agile principles and an academic background and education at BSc level or equivalent. You are keen on getting things done in time and do not hesitate to challenge your peers or teams to meet agreed goals.

We think you are a structured, inclusive, communicative, collaborative, and team-oriented leader with a high customer focus and a "can-do" attitude. You are curious and continuously searching for new knowledge!

You have excellent communicational skills and the ability to work in a global environment with various cultures and languages. You are open-minded, flexible, and can easily adapt. You are also committed to the task and able to motivate others. We see you as engaged, organized, and innovative. A people's person and a problem solver.

Qualifications

• Good understanding and experience of Agile methodologies and backlog management.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder relationships.
• Knowledge and experience from developing Electromobility systems within the automotive industry.
• Experience from project management within HW development in automotive business.

Are you ready to shape the future within Volvo Buses? We are excited to see how your unique skills and experiences can drive innovation and excellence in our team. Join us in making a meaningful impact on the transportation industry! Submit your application today, and let’s embark on this journey together! Last application date is the 16th of April.

Curious and want to find out more about this opportunity? Do not hesitate to get in touch! Magnus Lövkvist, Director CPD, +46 73 333 08 34. Feel free to connect with me on Linkedin.

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