Electromobility Strategy & Business Development Manager

Key skills & Experiences required:
• Excellent communication skills
• Holistic Business and Visionary Mind-set
• Strong analytical skills
• Negotiating skills
• Strategic agility
• Change management
• Customer Service orientation
• Ability to make a broad contribution to business
• Ability to interact with people on all levels and from different cultures
• Understanding of the distribution chanels and selling approach
• Technical understanding of the respective products
• M.Sc. in engineering, marketing or equivalent
• Proven management skills

Personal qualifications:
• Minimum 5 years of increasing responsibility and cross-functional work within a global, multicultural organization
• Excellent spoken and written English
• Ability to travel frequently Volvo CE has identified an industry shift toward electricfied systems and taken the strategic decision to secure an industry leading position in this area. This shift has the potential to completely change how we structure and develop, build and sell and support products. As such this is a significant strategic global undertaking which requires coordination across industry segments, products, and systems which impacts our strategy and the business. This role will be responsible to manage and support the electromobility strategy and business development through collection of market drivers and technology trends to support our product, component, and depth of engagement development.

Main activities and responsibilities:
• Define and manage, with MaPP & Sales, electromobility market trends both industry and parallel industry for VCE, connected to Volvo Group, for each product line (Input to product, component, DOE, and Volvo Group strategies)
• Define, with MaPP & Sales, the customer reference groups for product and business development for electromobility products
• Lead and define Electromobility specific drivers (triggers) and customer buying criteria
• Support and cascade strategic vision and communications strategy to support the Volvo brand image and Electromobility in the construction equipment industry
• Proactively assess Volvo Group, Volvo CE and Industry developments to identify risks and issues.
• Support Electromobility product and project prioritization for budget and affordability input. Volvo Construction Equipment, a business area within the Volvo Group, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of construction equipment such as wheel loaders, excavators, articulated haulers, road development equipment and compact equipment. Production facilities are located in Europe, Asia, North America and Latin America. Please read more about us at our homepage.