Manager - Product Development, Service & Parts Assortment Engineering

Company description: "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." Job description:Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.    Who are we? Uptime & Service Technology is a group function with the mission to provide Volvo Group’s brands with leading aftermarket solutions. Uptime & Service Technology provides solutions directly to Volvo Trucks, Renault Trucks, Mack Trucks. It supports Volvo Bus Corporation, Volvo Construction Equipment, Volvo Penta. It also provides solutions to Partners and Joint Ventures. Service Market is the category that entails the job areas involved in how the Volvo Group manages the lifecycle of its offering (both hard and soft) by providing diagnostic, maintenance, repair, standard times and spare parts for sold products, dealer support and assistance to secure customer satisfaction.What will you work with?You drive the strategy of service and parts product domain transformation taking steps in modernization and developing services, continuous improvement and change management in collaboration with relevant functions and stakeholders. As a leader, you develop people to support future challenges contributing to UST strategic focus and business. You drive, initiate and prepare the development of activities related to future technologies incorporation into our products for enhancing customer and business success. In this role, you secure alignment, engagement and collaboration with stakeholders for implementing new solutions for our products. You drive operational excellence, leverage synergies and harmonized product solutions in close collaboration with global functions. You foster an innovative, engagement and competitive culture where we attract and retain talents to develop future technologies for uptime services, and you will drive teams’ efficiency and effectiveness in close collaboration with a global management team. In this role, you will be a member of the Service and Parts Assortment Engineering global management team and report to the Head of Service & Parts Assortment Engineering. Who are you? To succeed in this role, we see that you are passionate about new technologies and that you work with simplicity, empowerment and accountability. Growing competences, knowledge and professionalism is close to your heart, and you have a strong customer focus. We believe that you have previous experience in leading technology, people and that you are curious to learn and develop yourself in a global/multi-cultural organization. You are structured and analytical, and through your coaching leadership, you influence, instill trust, and build effective teams. You have proven excellent organizational skills, as well as the ability to manage different requirements and expectations through strong negotiation and networking skills. You are proactive and responsive to new challenges, with a can-do attitude.To succeed in this role, we also believe you have: A master’s degree in engineering or equivalent 8-10 years of experience from globally working in product and business development within automotive industry Experience and knowledge of the Volvo Group, particularly in technology and/or business Knowledge and deep insight into our customer usage of our products High level of personal integrity and capability to act as a team player   Last application date: 15/9 We value your data privacy and therefore do not accept applications via mail.    Who we are and what we believe in We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities. Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. ​We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. ​We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.    Trucks Technology & Industrial Division hire team players who are ready to create real customer impact. Our decentralized teams work close to our customers, with speed and autonomy, to build what they truly need. Join us to collaborate on innovative, sustainable technologies that redefine how we design, build, and deliver value. Bring your curiosity, your expertise, and your collaborative energy, and together, we’ll turn bold ideas into tangible solutions for our customers and contribute to a more sustainable tomorrow.