Group Manager Advance Engineering - Transport Solution and Vehicle Configuration

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. 

About the job
Are you motivated by Advanced Engineering, Vehicle combinations & Transport solutions, and enhancing our CAST organization daily? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you. At CAST within Vehicle Engineering, we are seeking a Group Manager for Vehicle combinations and transport solutions to join our ambitious Management Team and play a vital role in shaping our transport ecosystem. Help us design sustainable transportation solutions for the future. As part of the Volvo Group Technology organization, you will drive the next generation of platform and vehicle concepts towards zero emissions. Bring your passion for developing transport solutions and vehicle combination concepts to a place where you can make a difference. 

This is us, your new colleagues:
In this role, you will join an organization focused on technology and employee development, prioritizing user and customer satisfaction. We are a team of architects, analysts, engineers, and specialists dedicated to our future products, concepts, and sustainability. Our global department, CAST & Platform Development, drives the Volvo Group principles for Common Architecture & Shared Technology, identifying key efficiency initiatives and supporting process development within our hardware ecosystem. With around 180 engaged engineers, we tackle exciting challenges in a positive atmosphere that values teamwork and diverse perspectives. 

What will you do?
As Group Manager for Vehicle combinations and Transport Solutions, you will lead a team in Gothenburg, Sweden, contributing to various activities within GTT and across Business Areas. 

Your responsibilities include:
•    Advanced Engineering, Vehicle Combination, and Transport Solution Concepts:
Foster collaboration in developing concepts that support global solutions, exploring innovative transport solutions like e-Trailers and vehicle-to-vehicle communication.
•    Transport Solution Efficiency: Analyze improvements in customer productivity linked to new transport solutions and integrate them into the AE portfolio.
•    Governance: Prepare and coordinate Advanced Engineering & Platform Architecture Committees, ensuring consistency across stakeholder committees.
You will also manage synchronization of vehicle and technology roadmaps, oversee CAST metrics, identify improvement areas, lead cross-functional investigations, and participate in AE Vehicle Concepts Governance. 

Who are you? Are we a perfect match?
• You are an experienced leader with a drive to explore and develop new technology. You have a MSc or higher educational background. A positive mindset and “we-can-do-it attitude” characterizes your personal profile. You are confident in driving activities inside as well as outside your own organization.
• You have a strong technical acumen to pave the path for future products that our customers will yearn for
• You have the ability to see the “big picture” and you are used to managing tasks on a high level of complexity
• You have strong knowledge of customer needs and how our products are used
• You have a strong knowledge of different vehicle combinations and how legislation is impacting them
• You have a good understanding of the Advance engineering process, both internal and external
• You have good understanding of modularization – you understand the balance between customer offering and a properly sized modular toolbox
• You are a business-oriented leader with strong strategic and analytical ability
• You have excellent communication and presentation skills with a passion for influencing and inspiring others with facts, and the ability to interact and influence at all levels
• You have natural innovation, creative and leadership qualities to initiate the change to stay ahead

What is our offer to you?
CAST is built on strong foundations, group-wide competencies, and purpose-driven leadership, valuing respect and commitment. We encourage individual responsibility and offer exciting assignments in an innovative environment. If this sounds energizing and challenging, we look forward to your application! Volvo Group Trucks Technology is committed to creating diverse teams that leverage differences in knowledge, experience, age, gender, and nationality to enhance creativity and innovation. 

Curious and want to know more? Please contact me:
Andreas Lundmark, Director - Platform Architecture and Advanced Engineering, Andreas.Lundmark@volvo.com

Last application date: 22nd of June 2025

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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. 

 

Group Trucks Technology are seeking talents to help design sustainable transportation solutions for the future. As part of our team, you’ll help us by engineering exciting next-gen technologies and contribute to projects that determine new, sustainable solutions. Bring your love of developing systems, working collaboratively, and your advanced skills to a place where you can make an impact. Join our design shift that leaves society in good shape for the next generation.

Job Category:  Technology Engineering

Organization:  Group Trucks Technology

Travel Required:  Occasional Travel

Requisition ID:  21734