Vice President Uptime Center
Oostakker, BE, 9041
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.
Lead the future of uptime for our customers
Volvo Trucks is looking for a visionary and people‑centered Vice President, Uptime Center to lead one of our critical service operations. This role holds end‑to‑end responsibility for an organization of approximately 300 employees, including Volvo Action Service and TDS Services, with a clear mission: maximizing customer uptime and delivering world‑class service experiences. The Uptime Center is a muticultural organization with sites in different countries.
As Vice President, you will be a key member of the Service Management Team within Volvo Trucks, contributing to strategic direction, operational excellence, and long‑term capability building across our global service operations.
Your role
In this executive leadership role, you will:
- Lead and develop the global service organization through direct and indirect leadership
- Have full accountability for Volvo Action Service and TDS Services, ensuring high availability, quality, and customer satisfaction
- Drive strategy, performance, and continuous improvement within the Uptime Center, aligned with Volvo Trucks’ overall service and business strategy
- Ensure operational excellence through clear governance, KPIs, and a strong performance culture
- Champion leadership development, engagement, diversity, and a safe, inclusive working environment
- Represent the Uptime Center in internal and external forums, building trust with key stakeholders across the Volvo Group
Who you are
You are a confident and inspiring leader with a strong business mindset and a genuine passion for people, customers, and service excellence. You thrive in complex environments and are comfortable leading large organizations through change.
We believe you bring:
- Extensive senior leadership experience, preferably from service operations, customer support, or a similar 24/7 environment
- Proven experience leading large organizations with multiple teams and management layers
- Strong strategic and operational capabilities, with the ability to translate strategy into execution
- Experience working in an international, matrix organization
- A value‑driven leadership style aligned with Volvo Group’s culture of trust, care, and responsibility
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence at executive level
Why Volvo Trucks?
At Volvo Trucks, we are shaping the future of sustainable transport solutions. As Vice President, Uptime Center, you will have a unique opportunity to make a real impact—on our customers’ success, on our people, and on the future of our service offering.
We offer a senior leadership role with significant influence, strong purpose, and the opportunity to lead at scale in a truly global organization.
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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 Trucks you will be part of leading the way towards a sustainable transport industry. For nearly a century we have been innovating for people – to make life easier, better and safer. Driving progress is our promise to customers, to the industry and to society. At Volvo Trucks we share a curiosity to learn, we work with passion and we embrace change to stay ahead. Join us, together we move the world we want to live in.