Group Manager, Verfication & Validation and Fleet Management
Göteborg, SE, 417 56
An exciting opportunity is now open for those motivated by the same purpose as ours: To make our customer happy!
Do you have a passion for customer success and leadership? Perfect, then this is the right place for you!
THIS IS US, YOUR NEW COLLEAGUES
At the Verification & Validation department, we are now looking for a Group Manager Verification & Validation and Fleet Management to join us in our journey to secure customer success.
In this position you will be a member of the Verification & Validation Management team and will report to the Director Verification & Validation. Here, you will get an opportunity to work with highly skilled colleagues in an exciting, global environment which provides opportunities to develop both professionally and personally. Our team thrives on joy, knowledge sharing, and openness, and we can’t wait for you to be a part of it!
THIS IS HOW YOU CAN MAKE AN IMPACT
Your team’s primary mission is to develop and manage the Complete vehicle Verification and Validation (V&V) strategy for our new products and services, and ensuring we have an optimized and relevant test vehicle fleet to support these activities. By adopting a proactive risk management approach, your team, together with the project team, will identify the necessary V&V activities to effectively mitigate potential risks.
Your team will also be responsible for managing the V&V project budget, identifying necessary resources, and estimating associated costs for executing the V&V plan. Together, you will manage the department work backlog, coordinate PI-planning sessions, drive retrospectives, and continuously enhance our ways of working.
Your new team will consist of highly skilled V&V Project managers, Test Object Managers and Feature leader Reliability with diverse backgrounds, and you will be on top of defining how to achieve the best work situation with them. Your role is to provide a collaborative working environment and cultivate passion, trust, and transparency through clear communication. You will build, grow, and lead a world-class team by developing a culture of learning, through coaching and career development. As our next leader, you will also set the roadmap and objectives for your organization and act as servant leader to get your team there.
WHO ARE YOU?
We are looking for you with a passion for people, technology, and a drive for results. You are a confident leader with a pragmatic approach who can demonstrate technical leadership and make decision based upon facts and engineering judgement. With your proven skills in cross-functional collaboration, you also know how to communicate effectively and influence a positive outcome. You are curious to take on new challenges and are always on the lookout for new opportunities and better ways of doing things. Furthermore, you care about your colleagues and your team’s development and wellbeing.
To be successful in this position we believe you have a Master of Science in Mechanical engineering or similar, have several years of experience from leading people, proven track record within Verification and Validation and Project management. Experience within reliability, digitalization and PI-planning is also an advantage.
We look forward to receiving your application as soon as possible as we review applications continuously. Last application date is the 19th of June.
Curious about this position and would like to know more? Please contact Jennie Sandahl, Director Verification & Validation, +46 7655 33603
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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.
At Volvo Buses you join one of the world’s leading providers of sustainable people transport solutions. What we do affects millions of people around the world: passengers, drivers, customers; in fact, entire cities and countries. This job gives you the opportunity to work with the future of people transportation and infrastructure. We have a strong culture of working together to help each other, sharing knowledge and experience. Together, we shape the world we want to live in.