Senior Vice President South & West Europe for Volvo Financial Services

at  Volvo Group

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.
Volvo Financial Services (VFS) is seeking a Senior Vice President (SVP) South & West Europe. You will report directly to the President Volvo Financial Services, be a member of VFS Executive Management Team and be based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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.
At Volvo Financial Services, we are working together to shape the world we want to live in. As the captive finance arm of the Volvo Group, VFS provides financial services and solutions that meet the needs of our customers’ evolving business. Through our dedication to innovation, we support society in its adoption of sustainable transport and equipment solutions. VFS is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, and serves Volvo Group customers and dealers in more than 50 markets

WHAT YOU WILL DO

The SVP South & West Europe is responsible for providing leadership and direction for the VFS businesses across the South and West Europe region, managing exceptional markets in the UK & Ireland, Spain & Portugal, France and Italy.
This position takes full responsibility for driving and executing competitive strategies to achieve VFS business objectives while ensuring alignment with the global strategy of VFS and the Volvo Group. You will manage the development and execution of business plans across the region, focusing on achieving sales and profitability targets while ensuring seamless strategic integration between VFS and the respective Business Areas (BAs).

From your location at VFS Global HQ, you will collaborate with key BA counterparts and VFS HQ functional support teams based in Sweden and/or Greensboro. Your key responsibilities include:

• Strategic Leadership: Collaborate with functional colleagues to develop and implement VFS’s global strategy, ensuring its success across diverse markets. Provide market input to support the continuous development of the VFS strategy.
• Relationships with business areas: Strengthen the relationship and collaboration between BAs, fostering aligned strategies for business development. Proactively identify and drive initiatives that help BAs achieve their market share objectives.
• Coaching and Development: Inspire, guide, mentor, and develop Managing Directors (MDs), Country Managers (CMs) and their succession pipelines to build their leadership, skills, and competence. Equip them to fulfil their responsibilities, including employee engagement, diversity, well-being, as well as strategy implementation, commercial and financial performance, and enhancing BA, dealer, and customer relationships.
• Change Agent: Foster agility, resilience and a growth mindset within the organization. Act as a change leader, making critical decisions and recommending actions when necessary to drive market success and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Operational Accountability: Ensure that MDs and CMs are responsible for all market operations, commercial results, and customer relations and that they systematically manage deliveries, finance penetration, managed assets, operating income, expenses, investments, and headcount to ensure business performance. You will oversee and support them in meeting these goals, intervening when necessary.
• Market Performance Oversight: Continuously assess business performance and market leadership. Take decisive actions when performance gaps are identified. Regular one-on-one interactions to maintain clear expectations for MDs and CMs to provide transparent reporting on their markets, operations, and results. Leverage local market resources for decision-making and reporting, keeping ad-hoc materials to a minimum