The Volvo Group is introducing a brand-based organization with clearer commercial accountability for the group’s various truck brands. Four separate units will be created: Volvo Trucks, UD Trucks, Renault Trucks and Mack Trucks, each with profit and loss responsibility for their respective business. Volvo’s Group Executive Board will be changed to include representatives from some of the group’s business areas.
“This is an important change in how we conduct our truck business, with an expanded mandate for our sales organizations to control and develop their businesses with an explicit responsibility for profitability and organic growth,” says Martin Lundstedt, President and CEO of Volvo. “We will gain a simpler organization in which decisions are made more quickly and in closer cooperation with the customer, while each truck brand will be represented on the Group Executive Board with shared responsibility for optimizing Volvo Group’s overall truck business.”
After several years of growth through acquisitions, followed by major restructuring programs and cost savings, the Volvo Group is now gradually entering a new phase with more intense customer focus and focus on organic growth and improved profitability.
“The efforts in recent years to realize synergies between our various brands have yielded results and created the possibility to now make the Volvo Group the most desired transport solution provider in the world,” says Lundstedt. “The goal of the new governance model is for all of the group’s business areas to be driven along the same distinct business principles, whereby each area can follow and optimize its own earnings performance in both the short and long term.”
The group’s technology and product development organization and production organization for trucks will remain responsible for common development and production. In addition, specific resources will be allocated to each brand. At the same time, purchasing for the truck operation will form a separate unit and will join the Group Executive Board. These organizational changes will not have any planned effect on the number of employees in the group.
The new organization will come into effect on March 1, 2016, when the Volvo Group will comprise 10 business areas:
Volvo Trucks, UD Trucks, Mack Trucks, Renault Trucks, Value Truck & JV:s, Volvo Construction Equipment, Volvo Buses, Volvo Penta, Governmental Sales and Volvo Financial Services.
From March 1, 2016, Volvo’s Group Executive Board will comprise the following members:
- Martin Lundstedt, President and CEO
- Jan Gurander, Deputy CEO and CFO
- Claes Nilsson, Volvo Trucks
- Joachim Rosenberg, UD Trucks
- Bruno Blin, Renault Trucks
- Dennis Slagle, Mack Trucks
- Martin Weissburg, Volvo CE
- Torbjörn Holmström, Group Trucks Technology
- Mikael Bratt, Group Trucks Operations
- (Under recruitment), Group Trucks Purchasing
- Sofia Frändberg, Group Legal & Compliance
- Kerstin Renard, Group Human Resources
- Henry Sténson, Group Communication & Sustainability Affairs
