Online applications are invited for the Returnship Opportunity at Volvo, Bengaluru. Check the details below!

About Volvo

The Volvo Group drives prosperity through transport solutions, offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing, and services that increase our customer’s uptime and productivity.

Returnship Opportunity at Volvo, Bengaluru
Returnship Opportunity at Volvo, Bengaluru

About ExcelHer program

  • Are you looking for an opportunity to restart your career? 
  • Do you want to work with an organization that would value your experience no matter when you gained them? 
  • How about working with the best minds in the transportation industry where we need more women power? 
  • Volvo is pleased to launch the ExcelHer program – the career returnship program at Volvo Group in India. The program is for women who have been on a career break for a year or more.
  • This is the step towards empowering women to relaunch their professional journey after their absence from the workplace due to personal commitments. Exciting work assignments have been identified which you can refer in the list below. 

Cohort Details

What’s in it for you:

  • The assignments are for a tenure of 9 months. The participant of this program would have access to professional development programs, mentoring assistance by a business leader, apart from the experience of working with people from different functions/technologies/culture. 
  • The Purchasing Strategy & Digitalization (PS&D) function within Volvo Group Purchasing (GTP) is a Centre of Excellence. They are responsible for driving and facilitating the strategic direction of purchasing on behalf of Executive Management Team. PS&D are, together with relevant line functions, driving efficiency within digitalization, governance, harmonization, group synergies, continuous improvements, and digital & IT projects to enable business value. They work proactively with change management and transformation in collaboration with GTP line functions.  

Main Activities & Responsibilities

  • Autonomous maintenance of Handler Logs and other Portfolio Activities/Order Management/Priority Aftermarket Requisitions handling 
  • Will be responsible for handling standard scope activities delegated by buyers from all Group trucks, buses, and Penta sites globally.
  • RFQ Management including Launching, follow-ups for quotes, and answering supplier queries in collaboration with buyers and PD and XF teams 
  • Compiling & analyzing quotes from suppliers, preparing preliminary quotes summary/analysis as well as a cost breakdown for various suppliers and parts 
  • Solving portfolio-related issues with suppliers/cross-functional teams and Supplier Price Discrepancy Management/Issues Handling 
  • Performing various analysis for buyers and managers like Price Inconsistency Analysis, 80/20 Analysis, ABC Analysis, Volume trend Analysis, Supplier Dashboard Creation, Material Cost Levels Report, Supplier Spend Analysis, Part Price Evolution, Cost Per KG Analysis, Supplier Deep Dive Analysis  
  • Supplier Integration Support on buyer request – Support in establishing EDI Connections, Supplier Portal Access, Creation/Addition/Deletion of Parma Code/Supplier base administration, Supplier Base Follow-ups 
  • Taxonomy and Segmentation Support to buyers and management, segment owners, and maintenance of Various Department Dashboards and Reports 

Education & Experience Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Automobile, Industrial, Production Engineering, or Electrical & Electronics Engineering, + MBA in Operations, Supply Chain Management, or Finance, and 1–5 years of experience in the Purchasing domain.
  • Has good undersrand on Purchase to Pay (P2P), RFQ process, Invoice discrepancy  
  • Knowledge of PowerBI, Presentation Skill set
  • Quick Learner who drives Competence Building 
  • Continuous Improvement and Excellence mindset with good communication skills 
  • Good understanding of different manufacturing processes and best practice costing. 
  • Excellent interpersonal and networking skills – true connector working in eco-systems 
  • Positive and collaborative mindset and strong energy to contribute to the success of the Volvo Group 
  • MS Office Skills / Advance Excel Programming Skills 
  • Proactiveness is an absolute must! 

How to Apply?

Interested candidates can directly apply through this link.

Location

Non-Japan Asia-India-Karnataka-Bengaluru

Click here to view the official notification of the Returnship Opportunity at Volvo, Bengaluru.

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