Buyer - Bodies & Transformation
Göteborg, SE, 417 56
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.
Bodies & Transformation Buyer
Do you have an agile and creative mindset? Do you enjoy the diversity of tasks and autonomy in your daily work? Are you ready to take on new challenges? Are you engaged in providing the best Customer Value and being close to the final product? Do you want to drive changes and develop new services? Are you a team player?
If the answer is yes, then you should apply today. We need you!
We are looking for a Buyer in Uptime & Adaptation (U&A) team to purchase Bodies & Transformation products and services for our trucks. Going the extra mile is not just words, we walk the talk!
What is our offer to you?
You will be a Bodies & Transformation Buyer within Customer Adaptation. The Bodies & Transformation segments represent everything Volvo is putting on top of our rigid chassis, such as tippers, boxes, cranes, hook-lifts and mixers. They are a key success factor for our customers and sometimes even more expensive than the actual truck they are mounted on. You will have a true role in making sure that our customers get a complete vehicle that meets their tough standards, contributing to their satisfaction and success.
We are also handling trucks transformations for special applications, in this area, every new project is unique and innovative.
So, are you ready for the ride?
This is us, your new colleagues
You will have colleagues and stakeholders working spread across the world, and you will be part of different networks, teams, and groups, both locally and globally. You will be part of the Adaptation – Bodies & Transformation team within the Uptime & Adaptation (U&A) department, with colleagues both in Gothenburg (Sweden) and Lyon (France).
Uptime & Adaptation is a global organization within Group Trucks Purchasing (GTP) who support Service Parts Purchasing and Vehicle Adaptation Purchasing. We operate in small teams with a large degree of freedom, “the small machine in the big machine”. Team spirit is a key enabler for us, we support each other, and everyone is contributing to build the Uptime & Adaption future.
What you will do
As a Buyer, we want to benefit from your Purchasing experience to support our Group and Brands' transformation from the Purchasing side. Our purpose is to always bring more value to our customers without compromising quality or lead time.
You will be leading the purchasing activities within your portfolio to maximize our truck brands offers. Focus is high on cross-functional collaboration, and you will make sure that ways of working are efficient and bring suggestions!
What does that mean?
- You build upon your knowledge of complete truck solutions and body builders to secure and strengthen a resilient supplier base, build a well-balanced partnership with our suppliers and contribute to Brand offers. Our customer's success is our success.
- You benchmark and scout innovation in our ecosystem and identify new business opportunities.
- You capitalize on your creativity and agility to propose a meaningful purchasing approach to our stakeholders.
- You support other team members throughout the purchasing journey and grow our team's purchasing mindset.
Who you are
At Volvo Group, we have a culture of high performance created through employee engagement, and we value Customer Success, Trust, Passion, Change and Performance. We like to work hard, have fun and we are committed to the Volvo Group success.
We believe in the concept “Hire for attitude, train for skills”. What’s most important is that you have a drive and passion for business, people, and to develop yourself and those around you.
Since the job is about customer success, it is also important that you have business acumen and the ability to communicate with facts, to sell your vision and get the desired support.
We also value if you have:
- Master's degree in Purchasing & Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering or related field
- Some years of previous buyer experience, automotive is a plus
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Excellent networking skills and ability to drive stakeholders at different levels
- Ability to secure business requirements and contracts
- Good analytical skills
- Curiosity for new technologies and business trends
- High degree of autonomy and ability to be pragmatic
- Ability to challenge, convince and make decisions
- Ability to deliver on time with team spirit skills
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.
“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”.