Adaptation Bodies Purchasing Manager H/F Volvo Group

Short Description

Bodybuilders and transformers play a vital role in tailoring our trucks to the diverse needs of our customers. Reaching the full potential of this business is essential to the Group's 2030 ambitions, as it allows us to serve customers in the most efficient, flexible and profitable way. This is why every day we collaborate with our supply partners and cross-functional stakeholders in an agile and challenging environment, ensuring our trucks are not just built, but perfectly adapted to our customers' success!
Even though we operate in a business-to-business environment, it is the 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 team will consist of approx. eight buyers of various nationalities located in France and Sweden. We hope you love to actively contribute to your team members' development, both professionally and personally.
Talking about being good at building relationships, in addition to the relationship with the team, it is essential to be able to build and maintain trustful and healthy relationships with business partners and stakeholders. We believe that someone who 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.
You will be reporting to our VP Purchasing Uptime & Adaptation.

What you will do

At Group Trucks Purchasing, you will contribute to the transformation of our company, the transport industry and society at large.
You will:
- Act as a trusted leader and coach your organization
- With an ownership mentality build an effective team with common objectives and high team spirit
- Be proactive and handle ambiguities - we move too fast to be reactive
- Influence the continuous improvement and our learning culture
- Speak up, influence and drive transformation to create positive change
- Collaborate with internal stakeholder and other group functions to drive business results

Who are you?

Do you dream big? We do too, and we are excited to grow together. In this role, you will bring a successful experience of manager roles.
We believe that you have an academic degree in engineering and/or business (or similar) together with a purchasing experience from an international business environment with global suppliers
We know that you love to work with an ownership mentality and that you have a great interest in people.

Here is the ticket to ride :

- Have an inspiring leadership that embraces diversity and builds effective teams
- Be able to deal with the issues that arise when navigating in unknown terrain
- Communicate so everyone can understand what you're trying to say

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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.

Volvo Group Purchasing is a team of changemakers that thrive in a fast-paced and exciting business environment. We are a truly global team with passion for innovation, sustainability, people, and where lifelong learning is an essential part of our culture. With our ecosystem of supply partners, we shape the world we want to live in and deliver value to customers, society, and the Volvo Group.