What you will do

Who are you?

Your key responsibilities include:

• Operational Accountability: Responsible for all market operations, commercial results, and customer relations to systematically manage deliveries, finance penetration, managed assets, operating income, expenses, investments, and headcount to ensure business performance. You will oversee and support your team in meeting these goals, intervening when necessary.
  
• Legal responsibility: Ensures compliance and adherence to legislative standards and regulatory requirements, as well as Volvo policies and guidelines when leading and supporting business initiatives. For necessary legal obligations, the position may be required to act as a legal representative.
• Strategic Leadership: Collaborate with functional colleagues to develop and implement VFS’s global strategy, ensuring its success across diverse markets. Provide market input to support the continuous development of the VFS strategy.
  
• Relationships with internal stakeholders: Strengthen the relationship and collaboration between BAs, fostering aligned strategies for business development. Proactively identify and drive initiatives that help BAs achieve their market share objectives. Represent VFS in local Country Management Team (CMT) of Truck Divisions, Business Areas and Group Functions.
  
• Coaching and Development: Inspire, guide, mentor, and develop Managing Directors (MDs), Country Managers (CMs) and their succession pipelines to build their leadership, skills, and competence. Equip them to fulfil their responsibilities, including employee engagement, diversity, well-being, as well as strategy implementation, commercial and financial performance, and enhancing BA, dealer, and customer relationships.
  
• Change Agent: Foster agility, resilience and a growth mindset within the organization. Act as a change leader, making critical decisions and recommending actions when necessary to drive market success and alignment with strategic objectives.
  
• Market Performance Oversight: Continuously assess business performance and market leadership. Take decisive actions when performance gaps are identified. Regular one-on-one interactions to maintain clear expectations for MDs and CMs to provide transparent reporting on their markets, operations, and results. Leverage local market resources for decision-making and reporting, keeping ad-hoc materials to a minimum.

What’s in it for you?

Ready for the next move?