Your main focus areas and responsibility in this job are to lead and develop a team with experts within Workplace and Service Concepts and to contribute with your expertise within this field. You, together with the team, drive the strategy and development of how we want the Workplace experience to be at Volvo Group around the world.
You will set the direction, translate business ambition into a workplace strategy, and align leaders around a shared understanding of what the workplace is there to do. It requires stakeholder engagement at senior level, identifying the cultural and operational needs of the business, setting priorities, shaping the brief for projects, building trust across functions, and making sure workplace decisions are tied to real business outcomes rather than preference or noise. Communicate the “why” behind major decisions and ensure the function is seen as a strategic partner rather than a reactive service.
You will lead a creative team and ensure that the workplace strategy and concept reflects the company’s culture, brand, operational reality, and future direction. Link strategy to brand identity, retention, employee engagement, and change adoption. Raise the status of the function, grow trust and buy-in.
The work is conducted in very close cooperation with the Group Real Estate operational divisions, Group Corporate functions, and colleagues within Volvo Group’s local organizations, purchasing and suppliers/partners. You will be a key person in picking up good examples, continuously improve and implement them in other contexts around the world.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead the development of the global Volvo Group Workplace concept, considering office optimization and utilization, and Facility Management service concept.
- Support colleagues and the operation as an expert within the Workplace competence field, explain the Workplace concept and to be able to guide, fins solutions and set the direction in a project
- Prepare material, lead and/or participate in meetings with higher or top management level to set direction within Workplace field
- Secure Cross-functional solution development and transfer of knowledge within the organization globally.
- Continuous benchmarking on global workplace experience trends and developments.
- Support new ways of working with service delivery
You are a member of the Property Construction & Operational Excellence Management Team and will report to the Head of Property Construction & Operational Excellence, Volvo Group Real Estate.
