Purchasing Business Developer Lead

Job Description

Position: Purchasing Business Developer Lead

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Location: Greensboro, NC

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Position Duration: Direct Hire (Full Time)

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Job Description

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• As a Business Development Manager, you will act as Reman & Circularity Purchasing interface towards a selected set of the Group Business Areas, mirroring their structure and ensuring a coordinated, value-driven, and forward-looking relationship across the Group.

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• In this role, you will orchestrate and drive all activities connected to the management of your assigned Business areas across the Group, in close collaboration with value chains, and functional stakeholders.

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• You will help create alignment across Business Areas, enable faster decisions, and ensure a consistent One approach towards suppliers with major strategic importance.

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You will secure:

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Strategic Alignment

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• Consolidate views on Service market Reman & Circular business including priorities, risks, and opportunities across entities and functions.

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• Drive a clear cross-functional circular strategy for your business areas on a regional basis.

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• Act as a connector across Business areas, Purchasing, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and other key stakeholders to maximize synergies and alignment.

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• Lead investigations, prepare recommendations, escalation points, and decision material for senior stakeholders and governance forums.

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Governance, Ways of Working & Tools

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• Coordinate and prepare standard governance, reporting, and executive interactions with the business areas.

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• Drive consistency in how Volvo Group engages with suppliers on Reman and Circularity through common ways of working, governance principles, and reporting.

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• Ensure an effective collaboration model with key Business Areas, balancing speed, consistency, trust, and transparency.

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• Contribute to the continuous development of Circular & Reman and SO&T Purchasing department, and operating model.

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Early Involvement

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• Support Business areas defining their service market offer at the early stage of Start Costs Projects.

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• Secure Reman & Circular pre-requisites are defined in order to be embedded in RFQ to suppliers and fulfilled at supplier awards.

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• Identify and foster business opportunities with suppliers, including innovation pipeline, early-phase collaboration, and outside-in market intelligence.

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• Enable stronger long-term competitiveness through proactive supplier engagement in upstream phases.

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Position Summary

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• LIVE INTERVIEWS WILL BE CONDUCTED IN GREENSBORO NC (7900 National Service Road, Greensboro NC 27409)

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• Candidate should have 8 or more years of related experience.

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