Purchasing Manager

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.

Your role

As Purchasing Manager, you will lead the site commodity buyers’ team and manage supplier relationships after selection, ensuring production readiness and performance. You will drive sourcing input and implementation, manage local supplier performance, negotiate commercial agreements, and secure purchasing contributions for tenders and Service Market. Your role includes leading daily activities and long-term strategies to support cost targets, delivery performance, continuous improvement and ensure VG´s sustainability requirements are met by our supply partners. All while empowering your team to grow and succeed.

So, who are you?

You are a strategic and hands-on leader, passionate about people, performance, and partnerships. You are structured, adaptable, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. You bring a global mindset, strong negotiation skills, and a natural drive to improve and deliver results.

Your Background

University degree in Business, Engineering or similar. 5–10 years’ experience in purchasing, preferably in automotive. Proven leadership experience, with the ability to develop teams. Fluent in English; international exposure is a strong plus.

Key Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Developing Direct Reports and Others
• Drive for Results
• Project Management
• Managing Diversity
• Strong Communication & Relationship Building
• Risk Assessment

What’s in it for you?

This is more than a job – it’s a chance to lead transformation, influence across regions, and grow within a global company that values innovation and inclusion. You will have a wide range of responsibilities and exposure to a large network which will enable you to grow and develop your skills.

Ready for the next move? Interested? We can’t wait to meet you and are very much looking forward to seeing your application! We will be working with a running selection so please apply as soon as possible. Last application date is the 17th of October.

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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 Buses you join one of the world’s leading providers of sustainable people transport solutions. What we do affects millions of people around the world : passengers, drivers, customers; in fact, entire cities and countries. This job gives you the opportunity to work with the future of people transportation and infrastructure. We have a strong culture of working together to help each other, sharing knowledge and experience. Together, we shape the world we want to live in.

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