Director of Business and Partner Development - Vehicle Technology

"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." At Vehicle Technology, We are passionate about unleashing tomorrow’s technology to create sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions making the world a better place for future generations. We provide innovative, safe and driver-friendly solutions. We develop top quality Services and we make our customer operations more efficient by using excellent data insights. We support the Volvo Group engineering community with cutting edge tools and methods. Who are we, your new colleagues? For us, working with technology means the aspiration to move forward, to constantly improve and to be better. It means innovative thinking and problem-solving through inspiring teamwork to come up with technical solutions and Services to forefront the way in partly unchartered territory. In BASC - Business, Architecture, Services and Connectivity – We put a strong emphasis on Business value in everything we do, and to support the Business value in solid and appropriate Architecture and corresponding building blocks. Further supporting the realization of groundbreaking Services. We are a “framing” organization for all of Vehicle Technology organization. Your responsibilities As a leader you will inspire and challenge people to be the best they can be. You are passionate about creating the right environment to enable your team to develop competencies and skills. You are a driving force and use experience, feedback and best practices to constantly evolve and improve. By understanding the customer needs and the opportunities that digitalization brings, your team will make sure to utilize the unique advantages that Volvo Group can bring by having the right partnerships at hand. The position is a mix of line management (leading people) and cross-functional leadership in order to drive and deliver customer value in the most efficient way. Your main missions will be: Lead the work to nurture, identify and create new partnerships enabling us to deliver on existing and future roadmaps with speed. Grow and enhance already existing partnerships. End non-performing partnerships based on future outlook and needs. Develop supporting Governance and Foras for effective handling of partnerships. Balance short-term partner commitments and long-term strategic goals and further guide the team to make trade-offs and prioritizations in the backlog. You will report to the Vice President of BASC and will be an active team player in the BASC management team. Who are you? Your most important attribute is your ability to act as a Servant Leader, to challenge the status-quo and to continuously coach, grow and develop the people in our department. You are goal-oriented- and a strong network-builder with excellent communication skills as this job involves a lot of collaborations.  We believe you can work and thrive under demanding conditions while creating a successful and fun working climate. As a person, you have a broad technical know-how in the area, combined with people skills and belief in agile methods. You can inspire, develop and motivate individuals and teams and are eager to lead us on a transformational journey. We expect you to have: Master’s degree in Engineering and/or Business Administration. Several years of experience of line and/or project management. A proven track record of leading and driving change including supplier and partner involvement. A strong Product Knowledge (Truck and extended Services knowledge). A strong Business-driven mindset, combined with an ability to bring out the best of any organization and a genuine desire in understanding and improving customer’s operations. Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Additional experience in agile methods as well as product and process knowledge working with Product Board material or similar. As your future manager, I truly believe that what makes you thrilled going to work will make you successful. That means I will support you in your personal development and help you follow your professional dreams. For more information and questions, please contact me: Markus Johansson, Vice President BASC - Markus.johansson@volvo.com Last application date is April 30, 2024.