Arbetsbeskrivning

"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."

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.

Based in Göteborg (Sweden), you will be part of Thermal Man. Purchasing team with colleagues based both in Göteborg and Lyon. You will work in a global environment with exiting challenges.

As a Commodity Buyer for Thermal scope , you will be responsible of supplier selection, manage the portfolio continuous improvement & performance.

Together with your purchasing and cross-functional network, you will proactively drive all relevant activities, to continuously secure a best-in-class supplier QDCFTSR (*) performance during product development and serial life.(*) QDCFTSR = Quality, Delivery, Cost, Feature, Technology, Sustainability and Risk Management.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive all relevant activities to deliver QDCFTSR (*) targets during Sourcing/Project and Operations phases
• Lead strategic sourcing projects to completion in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Drive commercial negotiations with suppliers
• Negotiate contracts and agreements with suppliers and ensure implementation
• Identify, mitigate and monitor risks and supplier crisis
• Actively contribute to the team development, by bringing improvement ideas, support your peers, sharing good cases and ask for support when needed

• You already worked as Project buyer (Min. 3years) in Automotive Industry.
• You are a strong and agile team player, eager to learn and improve.
• You have the ability to drive change and who dares to try things no one has done before
• You have a can-do approach with a positive mindset, a high level of energy, and you are ready to tackle challenges,
• You are comfortable in conflict and likes to negotiate
• You demonstrate strong communication skills with internal cross-functional teams, in front of suppliers and in a multi-cultural environment.
• You have an adequate academic education, such as business or engineering background
• Fluent in English
• Experience in the automotive industry is an advantage

You will be a great addition to our team and we are really looking forward to hearing from you !

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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.

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We specialize in comprehensive protection for transportation companies, including heavy goods, vehicle and cargo insurance, as well as civil liability insurance.

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