Volvo Group Graduate Program 2027 - Strategic Product Planner

Location: Göteborg, SE, 417 15

Volvo Group Graduate Program 2027 - Strategic Product Planner

Location

Göteborg, SE, 417 15

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Position Type

Graduate

Permanent/Temporary

Permanent

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.

This is the Volvo Group Graduate Program

A new era of manufacturing and R&D is here. Are you passionate about technology, eager to solve real business challenges, ready to drive innovation, and join our transformation journey? Then this Graduate program is for you! As part of the Graduate Program at Volvo Group, you will tackle real challenges from day one and contribute to the development of next-generation production solutions.

The 15-month Graduate Program combines 50% time in your home department with 50% dedicated program activities, giving you broad exposure across Volvo Group. Through local and international rotations, short-term assignments and targeted training in areas such as operations, engineering and purchasing, you will build a strong understanding of our business, brands and strategy. The program also includes direct customer exposure and encourages collaboration, knowledge-sharing and an end-to-end mindset, enabling you to contribute to transformation across the organization from day one.

Your future team

Welcome to Systems Technology, part of Strategic Product Planning within Volvo Trucks Technology Industrial Division (TTI). We guide the system choices behind tomorrow's Volvo Group offers, from electrification and fuel-cell solutions via conventional powertrains to ADAS and electrical architecture. If you want your expertise to shape the next generation of sustainable transport, this is your chance to make that impact.

With a neutral Group perspective, we combine deep system insight with customer and business judgment to shape strategies, product plans, prerequisites and investment priorities.

You will join an experienced, collaborative team and work across brands, engineering functions, markets and portfolio governance. The assignment will be adapted to a suitable technology domain while giving you exposure to the complete product planning process.

How you’ll contribute

You will support the development of competitive sustainable and profitable future Volvo Group offers by connecting customer and business needs with technology systems and platform choices. This role contributes to strategic product plans, decision material and early-phase investigations and pre-studies, helping the organization make fact-based priorities across brands, applications and technology domains.

Key responsibilities

Contribute to system product plans by analyzing customer needs, market and industry trends, regulations, competitors, technology maturity and business implications.

Support strategic investigations and pre-studies; structure alternatives, dependencies, risks and trade-offs and prepare clear recommendations and decision material.

Translate business and customer needs into product prerequisites, targets and planning input in collaboration with brands, engineering, portfolio functions and other stakeholders.

Help identify Group synergies and platform opportunities while balancing common solutions with the needs of different brands, regions and applications.

Build and share domain knowledge and a broad, T-shaped understanding of the complete vehicle, customer business and Volvo Group value chain.

Communicate insights and plans in a simple, visual and compelling way and contribute to continuous improvement of product planning methods and ways of working.

Who are you?

Your education and technical skills provide an important foundation, but what sets someone apart is the drive to make a meaningful difference. This role calls for high aspirations, energy, initiative, and ownership in turning ideas into results. It offers significant responsibility and the opportunity to influence decisions, shaping tomorrow’s transport solutions. No one needs to arrive with all the answers, but curiosity, a willingness to ask challenging questions and a commitment to making an exceptional contribution are essential.

A transformation-oriented, collaborative mindset and a desire to understand the business is key. Success in this role means thriving in dynamic environments, embracing new challenges and ambiguity, and taking an active role in personal development. Strong analytical skills help move tasks forward, while fresh perspectives and innovative ideas strengthen the team. You enjoy building relationships and leveraging a global network help create impact across teams and functions. Sharing knowledge, exchanging insights, and supporting others’ development also contribute to a culture of continuous learning.

Additionally, systems thinking comes naturally to you, along with the ability to connect technology choices to customer, product and business outcomes. Scenario work and business-case assessment are part of your toolkit and you know how to structure complex questions, compare alternatives and prepare fact-based recommendations.

This experience may come from academic projects, internships, thesis work, student organizations or early professional assignments; exposure to the automotive or transport industry is a plus but not a requirement.

To qualify for the Graduate program, you

Have completed a master’s degree prior to the start of the program but not more than three years ago

Relevant education within automotive, mechanical, electrical/electronic, energy systems, industrial engineering, innovation management or a related specialization combining technology and business

Should not have more than three years' full-time relevant working e