Senior Project Builds – Purchasing (North America)

About the role

TTI Purchasing, the global procurement function of the Volvo Group, is looking for a Senior Project Builds professional to lead purchasing activities for the North America region. Based in Curitiba, you will coordinate crisis management and build readiness for prototype and intro‑block vehicle programs, ensuring timely delivery and quality outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Own end‑to‑end crisis coordination for prototype and intro‑block builds, tracking order status and securing deliveries.
• Maintain a consolidated build‑readiness overview, highlighting critical paths, status, and decision points.
• Monitor supplier crises, drive root‑cause analysis, and enforce mitigation plans.
• Prioritise active supplier crises and readiness gaps to protect build security.
• Provide structured execution support to case leaders and cross‑functional owners.
• Lead escalation processes, prepare decisions, and align project teams, purchasing, and suppliers.
• Define and enforce task‑force ways of working, including reporting and escalation paths.
• Coordinate and run crisis and risk governance forums, handling agenda, minutes, action tracking, and leadership reporting.
• Stabilise the operating model and prepare hand‑over material for post‑ramp‑down execution.

Required profile

• Strong project execution capabilities.
• Proven crisis management experience.
• Professional, engaged attitude with willingness to go the extra mile.
• Ability to work collaboratively across global purchasing, engineering, logistics and supplier teams.

Required skills