Project Manager, Purchasing - Powertrain

Location:

Hagerstown, MD, US, 21742Greensboro, NC, US, 27409

Position Type: Professional

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport 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.

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 real passion for innovation, sustainability, and 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 our customers, society, and the Volvo Group.

Our Offer to You

Volvo Group offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic and team-focused environment in a company that is well known for its state-of-the-art company culture and benefits. Our culture is about how we interact with each other, our customers, and with society. It helps us to achieve our business objectives, is firmly rooted in our history, and is critical to our company’s long-term success. It is the foundation on which everything else is built.

Volvo Group is defined by a set of five carefully chosen values, which include Customer Success, Trust, Passion, Change, and Performance. These values are a major force in guiding our day-to-day behavior and drive our decision making at all levels of the organization. Our values are easy to understand, and yet fundamentally important. They express our shared beliefs across countries and entities to form the basis for a high-performing culture that can help maximize the full potential of the organization.

To work with us is to work with some of the world’s most iconic brands, and to be part of a reputation that has been earned for over a century. It is our responsibility to honor that heritage and build an even stronger future for our company moving forward. Each of our individual actions collectively define who we are as a company and how the world sees us.

Would you like to be a part of our team and join us on our journey?

What You Will Be Doing

Project Office, North America Purchasing is an organization within Group Trucks Purchasing (GTP) responsible to lead all projects supporting the North American truck brands from project inception to completion and review. Project Office consists of Project Managers, Purchasing (PMP’s) and Project Planners working across multiple projects with varying priority, timelines, and resource requirements.

The North America Project Office team is looking for a proactive leader with accountability of planning and executing the project needs for key projects in the North America region. As a Project Manager, Purchasing - Powertrain, your purpose is to represent the Purchasing Group in assigned product development projects. Using a proactive approach, you will achieve an understanding of the purchasing requirements and drive/follow up the Purchasing activities necessary for a specific project. Your objective will be to deliver the Purchasing project on time with agreed Quality, Delivery, Cost, Features, Technology, Sustainability, and Risk Management targets (QDCFTSR) according to requested volumes and production capacity. Tasks include managing schedules, following up with stakeholders, tracking progress, and reporting the results. Confident decision-making and a sharp eye for detail will be as essential as tactical thinking and clear communication.

This position will be based out of either Hagerstown, MD (preference) or Greensboro, NC and will report to the Head of Powertrain Project Management Purchasing North America.

Main areas of responsibility include:

• Work in accordance with Volvo processes, Code of Conduct, and Volvo Values

• As a part of a Volvo Group cross-functional team, bring GTP North America voice/business into the Projects

• Drive the projects performance with the GTP teams through active leadership to fulfill the Purchasing Gate deliverables according to Volvo’s Develop Product and Aftermarket Product Portfolio process (DVP):

• Manage Project integration phase

• Be accountable for sourcing performance/sourcing plans for the projects

• Be accountable for supplier involvement in projects activities

• Be accountable that material costs and tooling costs are aligned with project budget and cost engineering objectives

• Be accountable for Supply Network Quality (SNQ) activities for the projects to ensure input and involvement in planning and executing of the parts (i.e. APQP, PPAP)

• Be accountable for Parts planning/securement for the projects

• Be accountable for Cost change management for the projects leading buyers to follow Product Change Request (PCR) process

• Manage Purchasing stakeholders with great communication and focus on projects demands, targets, and time schedules

• Strive towards having Purchasing resources secured for projects and provide performance inputs to concerned managers

• Lead Projects risk management from Purchasing standpoint, including risk response and risk mitigation plans

• Escalate issues/inputs needed to deliver Projects on agreed QDCFTSR targets utilizing proper escalation process (GTP North America Reference Group, Projects P-PULSE, Project Reviews, etc.)

• Manage projects reporting with dashboard to report on projects performance

• Contribute to continuous improvement and global alignment of processes and procedures

• Be an inspirational leader for the Projects team members within the GTP North America organization

• Bring value to the GTP North America Vehicle Project Office organization and beyond

What We Are Looking For

• 3+ years of either strategic purchasing or project management experience from the heavy manufacturing industry

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred

• Well-developed communication and collaboration skills, agile in way of working

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business or related field, or equivalent working experience

Compensation/Benefits

• Competitive base salary

• Company bonus

• Comprehensive health benefits

• 401(K) with company match as well as additional automatic company contribution

• Culture with a passion for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for all

• Flexible work environment

• 5 - 6 weeks of annual vacation

• Global organization with expansive career growth opportunities

• Volvo Group University for professional and personal development

• Workplace health/wellness, and reimbursement programs

• On-campus fitness center and café

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Who we are and what we believe in

Our focus on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity allows each of us the opportunity to bring our full authentic self to work and thrive by providing a safe and supportive environment, free of harassment and discrimination. We are committed to removing the barriers to entry, which is why we ask that even if you feel you may not meet every qualification on the job description, please apply and let us decide.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group . Every day, across the globe, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment, financial services, and solutions make modern life possible. We are almost 100,000 people empowered to shape the future landscape of efficient, safe and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents with sharp minds and passion across the group’s leading brands and entities.

Group Trucks Purchasing has 125 BSEK in purchasing annual spend and 2,550 supply chain partners in serial production. We deliver the best possible products and service that bring value to our customers through scouting and working with high performing supply chain partners. We support Volvo Group's mission ‘Driving prosperity through transport solutions' through sustainability, business ethics and innovation. Joining us means working in a global context with 1,400 colleagues from diverse backgrounds and different nationalities across 25 countries while contributing to the core business and results of Volvo Group.

Job Category: Project Management

Organization: Group Trucks Purchasing

Travel Required: Occasional Travel

Requisition ID: 8534

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Do we share the same aspirations?

Every day, Volvo Group products and services ensure that people have food on the table, children arrive safely at school and roads and buildings can be constructed. Looking ahead, we are committed to driving the transition to sustainable and safe transport, mobility and infrastructure solutions toward a net-zero society.

Joining Volvo Group, you will work with some of the world’s most iconic brands and be part of a global and leading industrial company that is harnessing automated driving, electromobility and connectivity.

Our people are passionate about what they do, they aim for high performance and thrive on teamwork and learning. Everyday life at Volvo is defined by a climate of support, care and mutual respect.

If you aspire to grow and make an impact, join us on our journey to create a better and more resilient society for the coming generations.

Nearest Major Market: Hagerstown