Head of Competence Center - Chassis & EEVC

Company description:
"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."
Job description: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. 
What you will do
At Volvo Group you will contribute to the transformation of our company, the transport industry and society at large. You will lead the Chassis and EEVC Competence Center, a key member of the Cab Over Truck (CoT) Engineering leadership team and be accountable for the cab as a core vehicle system, shaping customer experience, safety, ergonomics, brand identity, and industrial feasibility. You will set the global cab roadmap aligned with product strategies, brand needs, and industrial constraints, and act as a key integrator between platform strategy and brand differentiation, ensuring reuse where possible and differentiation where it matters.
Working closely with Product Owners, Manufacturing Engineering, Purchasing, Brands, and other competence centers, you will drive cross-functional execution, innovation, and continuous improvement, enable modular and reusable solutions while support the right level of brand differentiation and regional adaptation to local market needs and regulations. You will also represent the cab engineering function in key forums, communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs, and strengthen governance and ways of working across sites to reduce complexity, avoid late changes, and increase development speed.
Key responsibilities
You will lead and manage the global Chassis and EEVC competence organization, providing technical direction, governance, and support across sites. You will oversee the development and delivery of cab-related architectures and solutions, ensuring alignment with product strategies, brand needs, industrial constraints, and applicable safety and quality requirements. Through close collaboration with Product Owners, Manufacturing Engineering, Purchasing, Brands, and other competence centers, you will drive innovation and continuous improvement, enable modular and reusable solutions with the right level of differentiation, and ensure robust, ready-to-integrate cab solutions that support faster vehicle-level decisions. You will actively reduce complexity, late changes, and rework by strengthening ways of working and cross-site alignment and efficiency.
Your future team
You will lead one of the largest competence centers within CoT Engineering, with global teams located in Gothenburg, Lyon, Curitiba, and Bangalore. The Chassis & EEVC Competence Center is a key vertical anchor in the engineering matrix, enabling Product Owners to deliver complete vehicles faster by providing globally harmonized, industrially robust, and regionally adaptable cab solutions.
Who are you?
Do you dream big? We do too, and we are excited to grow together. In this role, you will bring:
Essential qualification:
Extensive leadership experience in complex product development, leading global and cross-functional engineering organizations in a matrix set-up
Strong system leadership capability, with experience defining governance and driving architectural direction for a core product area
Proven ability to balance customer value, safety and ergonomics, brand identity, industrial feasibility, and cost in decision-making
Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align Product Owners, Manufacturing Engineering, Purchasing, and Brands
Demonstrated success in leading organizational transformation and change initiatives
Strong business acumen, integrity, and ability to navigate ambiguity and build trust across the organization

It is advantageous if you have:  
Experience from cab engineering, vehicle integration, or other highly visible vehicle systems
Knowledge of industry standards and regulations impacting chassis and eevc solutions
Proficiency in relevant engineering software and tools
Experience building long-term competence and innovation capability in a global engineering organization 

What’s in it for you?
We offer a solid package of compensation and benefits, plus you will enjoy: 
A strategically critical leadership role shaping one of the most visible and value-creating elements of the truck
A global scope and strong cross-functional collaboration across Product, Brands, Manufacturing, and Purchasing
The opportunity to drive simplification, speed, and quality through stable architectures and clear governance
Clear opportunities to develop people, teams, and long-term engineering capability 

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