Sales Manager BESS Nordics at Volvo Energy

at  Volvo Group

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport 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.
Volvo Energy is our newest business area with the overarching purpose of supporting the Volvo Group’s transformation ambitions within electrification, sustainability, circularity, complete service offer, profitable growth and resilience.
Within the Volvo Energy Sales and Services team, we hold the responsibility to commercialize the Volvo Branded Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) offering, both to existing customers and new customer groups. Our Battery Energy Storage Systems will support e-mobility and charging, provide temporary power supply as well as optimize commercial and industrial sites when it comes to decarbonizing and lowering energy costs
We are looking for a new colleague to join our team as Sales Manager BESS Nordics - Volvo Energy.
In this role you will be given a unique opportunity to shape and drive the early development of this new business for Volvo Group, together with the leadership team and a set of skilled and committed colleagues. We will work on solutions that will drive economically viable circularity and take us to a sustainable future.
As a Sales Manager BESS Nordics, you will play a central role to develop the mid-long term strategy roadmap for BESS sales, lead customer sales and deployment projects, from explorative pre-studies to final system commissioning and handover. You will also work in close cooperation with other Volvo Group colleagues and external partners to develop our offer and capabilities.

QUALIFICATIONS LIKELY REQUIRED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

• Sales experience in the power generation or a related industry (directly in energy storage would be a plus)
• Track record in building up sales pipelines successfully and driving contracts to closing
• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, power systems engineering, industrial engineering, business administration or equivalent.
• Strong management level stakeholder relationships and network within the regional energy storage sector, including developers and local EPCs
• Superior verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in simultaneous projects
• Strong analytical skills and commercial acumen.
  Direct experience from battery energy storage systems and contracting from a technical and commercial perspective would be of additional value.

WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE BELIEVE IN

Our focus on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity allows each of us the opportunity to bring our full authentic self to work and thrive by providing a safe and supportive environment, free of harassment and discrimination. We are committed to removing the barriers to entry, which is why we ask that even if you feel you may not meet every qualification on the job description, please apply and let us decide.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, across the globe, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment, financial services, and solutions make modern life possible. We are almost 100,000 people empowered to shape the future landscape of efficient, safe and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents with sharp minds and passion across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Volvo Energy lives and leads the change in accelerating Volvo Group’s electrification journey and driving circularity for a better tomorrow. We bring together people with who will work in a highly diverse, equal and inclusive global context with an entrepreneurial spirit where everyone is key and directly contributes to achieving our ambitions for wanted position: better for people – better for planet – better for business. Together – from individual success to collective significance

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