Strategy Development Lead

Strategy Development Lead to support our Strategy and Operations Office. Volta is working to solve some of the most challenging environmental problems in city centre, last-mile logistics, which means an opportunity to have a significant impact on the world around us, and what it will look like in the future, from your very first day.

Volta revolutionizes urban logistics and makes inner-city environments better places to live and work. We have created the world's safest and highly productive commercial vehicles by re-imagining conventional truck design principles. Our electric powertrain also eliminates harmful tailpipe emissions which contribute to climate change. A crucial part of our journey is building a team of outstanding employees who share our vision for the future and our values of safety and sustainability.

You will be joining a world class team backed by investors that both believe in the future we are creating. We have ambitious plans to bring our vehicles into European cities as soon as possible and are scaling accordingly. Volta is a people-led company focused around creating an exceptional business. All employees have an elevated level of autonomy and a platform to make a real impact. Depending on the location, the role will be split between our regional offices (Midlands in UK, Duisburg in Germany, Steyr in Austria, Paris in France), remote working, and occasional business trips.

The Strategy and Operations Office has a dual mission of

(1) supporting the Volta top management team in developing and decision-making of strategic and operational topics

(2) defining, launching, supporting, and/or leading mission critical cross-functional initiatives. It hence acts as a traditional strategy office as well as a PMO, directly reporting to the CEO. The office is structured along two pillars, one focusing on Operations functions (Procurement and Logistics, Quality, Manufacturing, Launch, Program, Product) and the other on Business functions (Finance, Sales and Aftersales, Sales Ops, Service, Product Management, Body Builder Solutions), yet projects and initiatives often encompass functions across the whole company.

Overall objective: As a core member of the Strategy and Operations Office, you will lead the Business strategy team and work on practical and strategic projects at the intersection of functions such as Sales, Aftersales, Product management, and Finance.

Key responsibilities:

1. Support the strategy development of Volta Commercial Vehicles and coherent aggregation in collaboration with the strategy office, e.g., areas of growth, resilient strategy scenarios, ...
2. Fully own a set of workstreams and work together with senior leaders as well as functional leaders in business functions to develop and succeed.
3. Drive your workstreams end-2-end, from setting them up for success with right governance, data management, dashboards, and reports, to (co-)leading efforts with cross-functional teams, problem-solve and derive recommendations for management decisions.
4. Develop and maintain a framework for strategic issues, such as competitive landscape monitoring, footprint analytics, innovations, and technology, ..., with the goal of facilitating ease of decision-making based on data and informed by facts.
5. Support the chiefs (e.g., sales, aftersales, finance) in strategic steering and decision-making.

Key skills

1. Analytics: Ability to
2. Gather, manipulate, and draw insights from data.
3. Easily translate numbers into understandable visuals or narratives.
4. Bring clarity to challenging problems and derive recommendation and action needs from analyses.
5. Effortlessly dive into new data and project handling instruments, e.g., Jira, Confluence, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, etc.
6. Create easy to use and powerful tools and outputs in office applications.
7. Strategy: Ability to
8. Rise above the day-to-day and identify key strategic choices.
9. Strong conceptual program-solving and hypotheses-building capabilities.
10. Communicate efficiently and develop and deliver externally-ready and polished presentations - fluent in English of course.
11. Start-up: Flexibility to
12. Deal with ambiguity and changes in business priority.
13. Adapt and reprioritize roles and priorities as needed.
14. People: Ability to
15. work effortlessly across functions, hierarchies, and mind-sets.
16. An outstanding reputation as team player and individual contributor.
17. Cherries on the cake:
18. A technical or business/economics degree with work experience and/or 3+ years' work experience in Automotive industry or a start-up.
19. Familiarity with project management approaches.

Reporting to: Chief Strategy and Operations Officer

A typical colleague at Volta Commercial Vehicles:

• Thinks and acts in a non-traditional way.
• Closely shares our values of safety, sustainability, and electrification.
• Is action-orientated, proactive and works at pace.
• Is transparent, progressive & entrepreneurial.
• Is adaptable, resilient, and open to change.

What working here will be like:

• We are a small team so you will have a high degree of ownership and accountability, and you will be interacting with all areas of the business.
• We are a start-up, so we do not have many structures and processes. Things change quickly and we acknowledge when we get things wrong and change direction.
• We are a diverse business, from many nationalities and backgrounds.
• We really value our people. We have a flexible & remote work environment and a great benefits package & pension scheme.
• We are committed to creating a first-class work environment. Every employee has a voice, and we encourage open communication.

Working location will be remote, but ideally the incumbentwill be based within our legal entities: Austria, France,Germany, Sweden or theUK.

Department Business Role Strategy and Operations Locations Remote, Remote, Steyr, Remote, Warwick, Nuneaton Remote status Fully Remote