About Volvo Cars
What is Volvo Cars?
Volvo Cars is a Swedish premium automotive manufacturer headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden. Founded in 1927 by Assar Gabrielsson and Gustaf Larson, the company is one of the world's most recognised car brands, famous for its long-standing safety leadership (the three-point seat belt, invented by Volvo's Nils Bohlin in 1959, was given freely to the industry as a patent gift). Today, Volvo Cars is a publicly listed company on Nasdaq Stockholm (VOLCAR-B) and is majority-owned by Geely Holding (China).
The company is a leader in the transition to electrification. Volvo Cars has committed to becoming a fully electric carmaker by 2030 and to climate neutrality by 2040. Recent and current models include the all-electric EX30, EX40, EX90, the plug-in hybrid XC60 and XC90, and the V60 Cross Country.
Where will I work?
Volvo Cars' global headquarters is in Torslanda, Gothenburg, with major facilities in Skövde (powertrain), Floby (engine components), Olofström (body parts), and global manufacturing plants in Charleston (US), Chengdu and Daqing (China), and Ghent (Belgium). The company also operates technology hubs in Stockholm (Volvo Cars Tech Hub), Lund, Bangalore, and Shanghai.
This profile covers salaried Sweden-based roles — the Swedish vacation policy and labour-law work-life-balance protections apply to white-collar engineers, designers, software developers, and corporate-function staff. Production-floor, maintenance, and logistics roles fall under separate collective-bargaining agreements and are not in scope.
What is the Volvo Cars team like?
Around 43,000 people work at Volvo Cars globally, with the largest concentration in Gothenburg. The company has a strong engineering culture rooted in safety, sustainability, and Scandinavian design. As a company that takes parental leave, work-life balance, and equality seriously, Volvo Cars offers some of the most generous family-friendly benefits among global automakers — the Family Bond programme (24 weeks paid parental leave for all parents at 80% pay regardless of gender, applicable globally) is a flagship example.
Work-Life Balance
Sweden-based salaried Volvo Cars employees benefit from 30 days paid vacation plus approximately 10 red days (Swedish public holidays). This is anchored in Swedish labour law, which mandates a minimum of 25 vacation days; Volvo Cars exceeds this with its 30-day standard for salaried white-collar employees. Combined with strong parental-leave provisions, flexible-hours arrangements for office-based teams, and hybrid working patterns, this is a meaningfully reduced-hours workplace by global standards.
Note: this profile and the schedule_type only applies to salaried white-collar employees in Sweden. Operator/production-floor/maintenance/logistics jobs at Floby, Skövde, Olofström, and Torslanda follow Swedish collective-bargaining agreements with different (typically shift-based) schedules.
Perks and Benefits
- 30 days paid vacation + ~10 Swedish public holidays
- Family Bond programme — 24 weeks paid parental leave for all parents at 80% pay
- ITP company pension scheme (occupational pension)
- Sweden-wide healthcare coverage
- Internal career mobility and learning programmes
- Volvo Cars Employee Share Programme
- Flexible / hybrid working patterns for office-based roles
- Wellbeing initiatives including on-site gyms (Gothenburg) and ergonomic support