Product Manager Isuzu – Vehicle Motion & Thermal Management

With climate change becoming an ever more pressing concern, the Volvo Group mission is to lead the global change towards a more sustainable and safe society. Our core belief is that technology and innovation can help us achieve this vision.


About Us:
At Vehicle Motion & Thermal Management, we are at the forefront of automotive innovation. For years, we have paved the way in developing cutting-edge solutions that blend the realms of vehicular motion control and thermal management. Our passionate team is dedicated to engineering excellence, pushing boundaries, and ensuring that every journey is smooth, safe, and environmentally conscious.


With a global footprint and a commitment to sustainability, we're not just designing vehicles - we're sculpting the future of mobility. Join us in our mission to drive change, one ride at a time. Apply here!


You will be part of the Safe and Efficient Driving Team and report to the Vice President – Vehicle Motion & Thermal Management.

Role Overview:
As a Product Manager, you will play a pivotal role in integrating our state-of-the-art vehicle dynamics, motion control systems as well as Thermal systems with the offerings of our strategic alliance partner, Isuzu. You'll not only manage our product to ensure it fits seamlessly with our partner's objectives but also lead our internal teams with clarity and purpose.

Key Responsibilities:
Product Stewardship: Be the go-to expert on our product. Advocate its benefits to our partner and demonstrate how it can resolve their customer challenges.
Team Leadership: Lead our internal teams effectively, ensuring project objectives are met and delivered on time.
Strategic Liaison: Act as a bridge between our partner teams and Volvo teams, ensuring a two-way communication flow that represents both entities diligently.
Platform Alignment: Guarantee that the partner solution aligns perfectly with the Volvo T3 Electrical platform. This entails smart diversity management, ensuring business growth, maintainability, and reusability.
Regulatory Adherence: Set and maintain a clear division of responsibility and information-sharing in compliance with Competition law, ensuring maximum efficiency.
Customer Advocacy: Represent the customer value stream in pivotal decisions involving test & verification strategies, timelines, workflows, budgets, functional safety/security considerations, intellectual property concerns, and supplier relationships.
Milestone Coordination: Ensure timely performance & deliveries against the project milestones and partner needs.
Stakeholder Communication: Clearly communicate product strategies, roadmaps, and performance metrics to a diverse range of stakeholders, both within and outside the engineering organization.



Who you are


You enjoy cooperating in a team and you have good communication and collaboration skills. A positive mindset and a “can-do- attitude” characterizes your personal profile. You are confident in driving complex topics inside as well as outside your own organization. You possess very good communication skills, and you are comfortable in guiding the organization to make difficult decisions in complex matters.


In order to succeed in this role we believe that you have the following qualifications:


- Master’s degree within engineering or in a related field.
- Proven experience as a Product Manager, preferably in the automotive sector.
- Strong understanding of the Japanese business landscape and cultural nuances.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and project management skills.
- Fluent in English; proficiency in Japanese is a plus.


At Volvo Group Trucks Technology, we are actively working to establish teams that will take maximum advantage of the strength inherent in differences, in knowledge, experience, age, gender, and nationality, etc. Customer Success, Trust, Passion, Change, and Performance are the values that guides us.


The location for the position is Gothenburg, Sweden. If you are based in another location, but your skills are a good fit, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway. Relocation support can be provided if needed.


We are looking forward to your application!
Andreas Sundqvist, Vice President Safe & Efficient driving, +46 73 9021111




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