Customer Project Manager

• Applications are considered on a rolling basis
• On-site

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to join us in our mission to contribute to a greener future. The role is part of Customer Project Management team, which is based across the different Northvolt sites. By joining us, you will be a key player in establishing and maintaining relationships with our customers and directly contribute to successfully developing, industrializing and launching the batteries in close collaboration with our customers.

About the job As a Customer Project Manager , your main responsibility is to drive customer projects from start to finish, from development to industrialization and production ramp-up. You will have the opportunity to take full ownership of a customer project and liaise customers with the internal engineering and operations team. This role will enable you to create and maintain relationships with Europe’s automotive key players while making oil history.

As a Customer project manager, we expect you to have previously managed technical automotive projects and that you have an understanding of how automotive OEMs act in the Tier 1 supplier relation. Knowledge of Lithium-Ion batteries or e-mobility is preferred but not required. This role will also require travel mostly within Europe.

About You A successful Customer Project Manager at Northvolt is flexible, meticulous, curious, and eager to learn from others. We are looking for someone who wants to help us write our success story. Finally, we are looking for a positive mind and a self-driver, willing to take initiative and walk the extra mile to achieve their goals. Qualities the automotive team particularly cherishes are a sense of quality, friendliness, grit, and a sense of humor.

About the team You will be part of the Automotive and Foundry team based in Stockholm and Västerås. The total business unit is about 40 rock stars with the task to generate business from our existing and new customers, and lead the complete projects from customer requirements to mass production in Northvolt’s factories. From customer lead to delivered product – together and in collaboration with many of the fantastic functions within Northvolt. Our goal is to grow Northvolt's business in line with the expectation to scale the company!

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Plan and Execute the Customer Projects according to commitments, fulfilling customer requests.
• Lead the cross-functional product development team in Northvolt through delegation, expectations and follow up
• Primary customer interface, controlling all operational project communication to the customer
• Internal reporting in Northvolt Customer Project governance structure.
• Escalation of project risk and bottlenecks to Program Manager.
• Project Budgeting and financial control, including PO approvals (within financial authority)

Northvolt is an equal opportunity employer. We're a diverse group of individuals, united by a common mission, who recognize that while our actions as individuals have a role to play in driving Northvolt toward its goals, we always seek to move forward as a team. We offer you an open and welcoming atmosphere where we win as a team – and fail as a team. Northvolt is growing at the speed of light and we are a strong believer in internal career development. For us it’s important to look at your skills and potential, please refrain from including your picture and age with your application to help us with this.

Apply with a CV in English or your complete LinkedIn profile.

Full-time employment, fixed salary.

The planned starting date is ASAP.

Skills & Requirements

We believe that you have:

• A degree in Engineering
• 6+ years of working experience in the automotive or battery industry
• 2+ years working in commercial-facing roles
• Experience in individually setting up and driving customer projects in the aforementioned relevant industries
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to lead people in a project matrix.
• Ability to lead through motivation and delegation of authority and tasks – in parallel with the willingness to act on all levels when needed, to get things done and reach the set-out goal.
• Perseverance and ability to lead, prioritize, and delegate in periods of high pace and pressure.
• Excellent English- written and oral skills

Bonus points for:

• Experience and interest in the manufacturing industry
• Fluency in other languages (German, Swedish, French)
• Experience in a multi-cultural or start-up environment.

About the company

Northvolt makes green batteries for a blue planet. Affordable, sustainable, and high-quality cells and battery systems. Built to enable the future of energy.

To accomplish this, we do things differently. We design, manufacture, and recycle everything under one roof. We even build our own factories. All this is incredibly challenging and requires us to think in unconventional ways. We’re constantly experimenting, learning and adapting to make the world’s greenest batteries.

Northvolt is growing fast. We’re looking for smart people from all disciplines. Strong individuals that truly want to make a positive impact on the future. Those of us already on board share a passion for our mission. We’re prepared to work hard in pursuit of excellence. We enjoy the ride and our main drive is to make a difference for real. As a team, we’re dedicated to thinking new, working hard and having fun!