Volvo Cars, the premium carmaker, has appointed Martina
Buchhauser as Senior Vice President Procurement. Ms. Buchhauser joins the Volvo
Cars executive management team from BMW, where she has been Senior Vice
President of Purchasing and Supplier Network for Interior since 2012.
Ms Buchhauser has a wealth of experience from the automotive
industry as well as a proven trackrecord in global sourcing, supplier
management and close collaboration with engineering and manufacturing
organisations.
Before her career within BMW, where she was in charge of
quality and supply for all interior components of the vehicle manufacturing
plants around the globe, she worked in various senior purchasing positions at
MAN and General Motors since the mid-1980s. She holds a masters degree in
management from Stanford University in California.
“I am very pleased to welcome Martina to the company,” said
Håkan Samuelsson, president and chief executive at Volvo Cars. “She joins us at
a crucial moment as we continue to renew our entire model portfolio, expand our
manufacturing footprint and develop our global sourcing and supplier base.
Martina’s strong track record and recognized leadership capabilities will be a
major asset in this second phase of our transformation.”
“It is very exciting to join Volvo Cars and become a part of
the successful journey the company is going through,” said Martina Buchhauser.
“This is a company with a strong heritage and appealing core values: a
commitment to quality, industry-leading safety, a better environment and care
for people. On top of that Volvo Cars is a modern and agile company with
exciting technologies and products. The passion that I have encountered so far
within Volvo Cars only adds to my excitement.”
In the coming years Volvo Cars will continue to replace its
entire model range. Last month at the Geneva Motor Show it launched a
completely new version of the successful XC60 mid-size SUV based on the SPA
architecture. Later this year Volvo Cars will introduce the XC40 small SUV, the
first in an all-new range of 40 series cars based on the CMA architecture that
underpin its global small car strategy.
Volvo Cars is also in the middle of an unprecedented
expansion of its global manufacturing footprint, developing from a Europe-only
manufacturing operation in Sweden and Belgium to a network with six
manufacturing plants on three continents.
Construction work on a new USD500m manufacturing plant in
South Carolina, its first in the United States, is ongoing. The plant will
build new cars based on its modular Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) and
will initially employ up to 2,000 people. The new plant in South Carolina
underlines Volvo’s long term and strong commitment to the United States and
will start operations in 2018.
Last year, Volvo Cars also unveiled a new manufacturing
strategy for China in which production capacity will be increased and China
will be developed in a global manufacturing export hub. Its top-of-the-range
S90 cars will be built in Daqing in northern China, while existing and future
60-series cars will be built in Chengdu. Cars in its planned new 40 series,
based on its Compact Modular Architecture (CMA), will be made at a plant under
construction in Luqiao, 350km south of Shanghai.
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