Ylva Vihøj

Ylva vihøj

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Vice President HR

  • Education

    • Brighton polytechnic

      1991 - 1991
      Marketing
    • Leuphana university of lüneburg

      1992 - 1992
      Betriebswirtschaft
    • University of gothenburg

      1998 - 1999
      Psychology

      Interview and assessment methodologiesPsychology and behavioural science

    • Rptu kaiserslautern-landau

      1993 - 1993
      Betriebswirtschaft, umwelt ökonomie, staatswirtschaft, filosofie.
    • School of business, economics and law at the university of gothenburg

      1989 - 1994
      M.sc. international business program business administration & economics
  • Experience

    • Volvo group

      Nov 1994 - Feb 1997

      During, and after the graduate trainee program, I was mainly working with business- and financial control and forecasts, as well as preparation of investment- and executive team/board material from an ownership perspective (AB Volvo). Assisted the CEO, Volvo East Asia, in developing a strategy for the Volvo Group in Asia 1995-2005.Worked at the marketing department at Volvo Cars UK.Assignments at the Global Product Planning department at Volvo Trucks.Assignments at Volvo Penta, mainly within finance and business control, but also HR.

      • Business Controller

        Dec 1995 - Feb 1997
      • Volvo Group Graduate Trainee

        Nov 1994 - Nov 1995
    • Volvo busse austria/volvo austria gmbh

      Mar 1997 - Feb 1998
      Head of business control

      Managed the business control function, follow up & financial forecasts for Volvo Buses in Austria. A full fledged manufacturing company, with direct sales of complete buses to customers both in Austria and abroad. I was also responsible for setting-up a finance and HR service center for the Bus, Trucks and Cars businesses. As head of business control and member of the management team, participated in the change management of Volvo Busse Austria, including divestment and closing of the industrial part of the bus company in Vienna. Show less

    • Volvo buses

      Mar 1998 - Aug 1998
      Business controller

      Responsible for business control, financial follow up, investments and financial forecasts of all business in region Continental Europe.

    • Volvo cars

      Sept 1998 - Aug 2000
      Hr director, recruitment & career planning

      Main focus was on management recruitment, career counseling and leadership assessment & development. Successfully lead the Volvo Cars - Ford Motor Company talent management project. The result was a new Volvo Car career management process, aligned to Ford Motor Company's model but based on the Volvo culture. Also successfully developed and managed a competence development & mobility program for the Volvo finance community. Participated as assessor ion Volvo Cars assessment & development centers.

    • Volvo group

      Sept 2000 - Feb 2013

      - Global responsibility for human resources, communications, core values, strategy and business planning at AB Volvo's technical research and innovation company, Volvo Technology.- Besides designing and deploying strategic as well as hands-on people and organizational development, main achievements were driving transformation and culture change together with management teams, developing and implementing a competence based global footprint organization and developing people and culture focusing innovation ability and competitiveness.- Lead a team of HR Business Partners and Communication officers. Member of the executive management team, reported to CEO. Show less - Globally responsible for the Volvo Group's strategy and work practices in the areas of leader sourcing and development, executive recruitment and succession planning, talent and performance management, employer branding and workforce planning.- Designed and deployed best practise talent management framework across the Group. Created the architecture, activities and concepts as well as implemented and applied them in practice. - Drove talent identification, development and development processes at Group level, assessing and allocating talents in close collaboration with local HR and senior leaders. - Lead a team of HR specialists, and a Group talent management network, reported to Group SVP HR AB Volvo. Show less

      • Senior Vice President, Strategy office at Volvo Group’s technical research & innovation company

        Feb 2009 - Feb 2013
      • Member of the Board - Volvo IT Corporation

        May 2005 - Aug 2011
      • Group Vice President, Talent Management & Development

        Feb 2005 - Feb 2009
      • Director, Leader Sourcing and Career Management

        Sept 2000 - Jan 2005
    • Novacura ab

      Dec 2012 - May 2016
      Member of the board
    • Rantus ab

      Mar 2013 - Mar 2021
      Hr, people & culture interim manager & consultant

      Consistently combining long-term interim assignments as senior HR head/manager in various industries (from 100 to 10 000 employees) focusing on transformation, change, culture and development, with short-term assignments within organizational development, coaching and leadership assessment. Examples of assignments:- HR director (3 year’s interim) at Mölnlycke Health Care (Medtech) Global Manufacturing, Regulatory &Quality, Customer Care and Supply Chain ;- Head of HR (interim) at RO-Gruppen, an expansive, people centric and innovative Nordic constructioncompany where focus was on building robust HR practices around culture & values;- HR director (interim) Jeppesen Systems, a Boeing company;- Talent Development manager in Sigma Tech (now Nexer Group)- Nordics HR Manager (interim), Ascom, Communications - and collaboration solutions for healthcareorganizations. Show less

    • Titanx engine cooling

      Mar 2021 - Sept 2023
      Vice president hr & internal communications

      - Leads a global team of HR directors, managers and HR business partners. Member of Group Executive Team, reporting to CEO.- Actively involved in developing TitanX global footprint incl. driving recruitment solutions, transformation and capability buildning.- Developed and implemented a new Global Performance Review process and dialogue formed to strengthen engagement, performance and well-being.- Initiated culture workshops, formulating the TitanX culture and values includingleadership beliefs and behaviors.- Modified the people planning process to focus on strategic organizational- and people developmentprocess and review.- Developed and implemented a new TitanX.com website and a new global Intranet solution.- Initiates and develops employer branding, well-being and EVP initiatives together with team globally.- Modify learning and development process and training in TitanX and leverage on Tata learning anddevelopment activities.- Implemented a new real time engagement and well-being survey solution globally.- Developed and implemented several value adding people policies, work practices and tools in TitanX. Show less

    • Xvivo

      Oct 2023 - now
      Senior vice president, hr
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Leap vault - leadership development program

      Insead executive education
      Apr 2022
    • Assessor, leadership assessment centre

      Hays
      Jan 1998
    • Human resources executives program - stockholm school of economics executive education (ifl)

      Stockholm school of economics executive education
      May 2006
    • Practice tests: verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, inductive reasoning, process monitoring, behaviour-based assessment, personality - shl

      Shl
      Oct 2001
    • Project management

      Wenell management ab
      Mar 2000
    • Certificate, coaching in practise

      Viva career coaching
      Jan 2008
    • Board member training

      Sbc
      Oct 2000
    • Myers-briggs type indicator, mbti - assessio

      Assessio
      Jan 2006